Create Work Center

Explanation

Use this activity to create and revise a work center. The information you enter is used when you work with operations, shop orders, master scheduling, MRP, and cost estimates.

Note: When a site is defined for finite planning, you cannot define external work centers as infinite. If you have infinite capacity at external work centers, you must define the capacity as more or less unlimited, i.e., so high that no limitations are reached.

Once you have created a work center, you can use the Setup Matrix tab to create a setup matrix. See Activity description for Create a Setup Matrix.

For outside work centers, a supplier should be entered. The outside operation backflush option is set as a default for outside operations using the outside work center. Updating the values on an outside work center will not change setting on previously created operations using the same work center.

If a supplier is selected for an outside work center, then this supplier will be used when creating Purchase Requisitions or Purchase Orders for outside work centers.

Prerequisites

This activity has the following prerequisites:

• You must have created a site to which you can connect the work center.
• If you want to use a calendar for the work center other than the site calendar, this calendar must be defined before you create the work center.
• If you want to connect the work center to a production line or department, this information must be registered before you create the work center.

System Effects

As a result of this activity:

• The system creates a new work center.
• When you enter an inside work center, cost sets 1, 2, 3, and 4 are automatically created for it.
• The work center can be linked to a production line.

Window

Work Center

Related Window Descriptions

Work Center

Procedure

1. Open the Work Center window.
2. Click New on the toolbar.
3. Type the short code of the work center in the Work Center combo box. This code can consist of up to five alphanumeric characters.
4. Type a description of the work center in the Description field.
5. In the Site field, specify the site at which the work center is to be used. Use the List of Values to select from available sites.
6. Specify the work center's Queue Time.
7. In the Work Center Code list box, specify whether the work center is internal or outside.
8. Select a calendar for the work center in the Calendar ID field. Use the List of Values to select from available calendars. The site calendar appears as the default.
9. Type the work center's percentage of use in the Utilization field. The default value is 100 percent.
10. In the Sched. Capacity list box, specify whether finite or infinite schedule capacity is to be used.
11. In the Usage Code list box, specify whether the work center is to be an active or planning resource.
12. If you want to link the work center to a production line, type the ID for the production line in the Production Line field in the Detail tab window. Use the List of Values to select from available production lines.
13. If you want to link the work center to a department, type the number of the department in the Department field in the Detail tab window. Use the List of Values to select from available departments.
14. If you want to link the work center to a cost center, type the cost center ID in the Cost Center ID field in the Detail tab window. Use the List of Values to select from available cost centers.
15. Save the changes.
16. If the work center code is Outside work center, Supplier field will be enabled. (For outside work centers, entering a value in the Supplier field is required.)  Use the List of Values to select from available suppliers.
17. Select the suitable Outside Op. Backflush option.
18. Enter any additional necessary information in the Cost, Resource, WC Capacity, and Location tab windows.
19. Save the changes.