Production Orders

Plan production orderProduction orderA Business Central manufacturing order with routing lines. The production routing solution puts those lines on the planning board against work and machine centers while BC’s own rules still hold. routing lines on the Dime.Scheduler planning boardPlanning boardThe main graphical scheduling surface where dispatchers drag tasks onto resources across a timeline., with drag and drop and the full NAV business logic behind it. The FastTrack solutionFastTrack solutionOne module of the Business Central or NAV connector that makes a kind of record plannable, such as service orders or production routing. Each has its own enable switch in the FastTrack wizard. for Production Order - Routing Lines gives you:

• Visualize and plan routing lines via drag and drop, using and respecting all the NAV business logic.
• ResourcesResourceAn entity that can carry out work - a person, vehicle, tool, or room - that you schedule on the planning board. in Dime.Scheduler created from the standard NAV work centerWork centerA Business Central manufacturing capacity unit. The production routing solution creates resources from work centers instead of the Resource table. and machine centerMachine centerA machine under a Business Central work center. Like work centers, machine centers become resources when production routing planning is enabled. tables.
• Automatic updates to a planned taskPlanned taskAn appointment together with the resources assigned to it - the full picture of what will be done, by whom, and when.'s categoryCategoryA visual indicator (a color) applied to appointments to classify or label them. or time markerTime markerA visual indicator on an appointment, separate from its category, used to flag a status or condition at a point in time. when the order status of the production order changes.

Configuring production orders - routing lines

Set up the solution in the wizard:

• To use the FastTrack solution, select "Enable Production Routing planning".
• To create resources in Dime.Scheduler from the work center and machine center tables, select "Use Work Centers" and "Use Machine Centers" (recommended).
• In "Show Order Status as", choose how the planned task(s) in Dime.Scheduler update when the order status of the production order in NAV changes. You can update the category or the time marker. Leave it blank if you don't want the order status to show.