Work orders

A work order is a detailed step within a manufacturing order. The owner of a work order is a manufacturing order whose operation is of type “routing”. The routing operation defines a list of step suboperations that need to be executed.

The work orders table contains the confirmed work orders in your supply chain.

When generating a plan frepple will add new proposed work orders to this table.

For a first simplified model, this table can be left empty, frepple will generate proposed work orders to meet the plan.

Key Fields

Field

Type

Description

reference

string

Unique identifier of the manufacturing order.

owner

string

The reference of the manufacturing order this work order belongs to.

status

string

For frozen and work-in-progress manufacturing orders, the status should be “confirmed”.

operation

operation

The operation that should be run for the manufacturing orders.

end date

DateTime

The date the manufacturing order ends.

quantity

number

The produced item quantity.

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