Routings

The routings determine the operation sequence oto do for each manufacture. You can associate a routing to each nomenclature. The routings are defined in relation to the workcenter. A workcenter can be either human resource, a machine or a tool.

The routings are optional, but if you use them, that allows:

to automate undertaking to accpet responsibility of the costs machines and human resources for each work order. These costs are transfered in the analatycal accounting according to definitions of the workcenter and the routing.
to calculate and plan the future capacities on each workcenter.

Then the routings are used for manufacture having one of the following characteristics:

the costs of the workcenters are not negligible in relation to the material first costs,
the plannification of manufacture must take account into the output of each machine

Workcenters

Before defining each routing, it is necessary to define the workcenter of the company. You can create them via the menu: G.P.A.O. > Definitions > Workcenters.

A routing represents a resource or a whole of several resources considered as identical. Thus allocate a specifict name to each workcenter. The code of this one is optional and doesn't have other effects only to make esaier research and print themselves on the paper documents.

Then indicate the type of routing: human resources, machines or tools. A machine is considered as belonging to a room while a tool can be moved. That it's for human resources or a machine, you can indicate a timesheet which determines the operation schedules of this resource.

Then, information on the capacity makes it possible to deduct the time and the number of cycles necessary to manufacture according to the quantity. Generally human resources necessary are numbered in hours while the machines and tools are counted in cycles. Only, you can use a combination of both for the same workcenter: a technicians team each one having the same tools and machines.

Time for a production cycle is given in hours. Time before-production is generally used for the machine settings and time after-production for cleaning. These three parameters make it possible to calculate the real time of consumption of this workcenter for a work order. Indeed this one will be calculated as follows: Time of use of the workcenter = Time Before-PROD + # Cycle * Cycles Times + Time After-Prod. These parameters are generally given by the machine chart. Only one machine wears out in time, this is why you can use the 'temporal effectiveness' field to decrease or increase this result by a factor. A temporal effectiveness of 0.9 indicates that the machine is 10% faster than its technical data.

The cycle capacity indicates the number of identical resources present in your workcenter. Attention not to confuse cycle capacity and time for a cycle. Thus, a cycle capacity of 6 and one cycle of 1h indicates that you can produce 6 parts in parallel and, if only one part is produced, that will even so take 1 hour. Conversely, a cycle capacity of 1 and a time by cycle of 10min will make it possible to produce only one part in 1 minute but if 6 parts are produced that will also take one hour. In that last case, the productions are made one after the other.

Lastly, costs information of use of the workcenter makes it possible automatically to generate analytical entries on the stations of production. To do that, it's necessary to give the costs per hour and/or the cycle costs for each post. For each cost, it's necessary to give an analytical account in which the entries will be automatically charged. You have also to specify an analytical journal and a voucher. This last is only used to mark the type of transactions of the analytical entries. No charge is made in the general accounts.

The routings

Once the workcenters of the company defined, you can create the routings for each nomenclature. To do that, directly define the routing from the nomenclature concerned or use the menu: G.P.A.O. > Definitions > Routings.

Each routing must have a name and a code can it be associated.

If you indicate a location for the routing, that indicates that manufacture will obligatorily be done on this site. If you don't indicate any location, that by default in the production order will be used. At each work order, Tiny ERP generates a request for internal inventory movement to move the raw materials in the location indicated in the routing or the order. If the raw materials exist in this location or a child location, the inventory move will be automatically done without manual confirmation. You understand the importance to set well the locations structure.

Then the routing indicates all the workcenters used, for how long and/or cycles. If a sequence number is indicated, it makes it possible to determine the operations order of manufacture.

Once the defined routings, you can use them on any level of the nomenclatures. If a routing is indicated for the nomenclature, the third tab of a production order (workcenters) will be automatically pre-completed.