Defining Discrete Jobs Manually

You can manually define standard, non–standard, and project jobs. You can assign bills and routings to standard discrete jobs to create material requirements, schedule operations, and create resource requirements.
You can optionally assign alternate bills of material and/or alternate routings when you define standard discrete jobs (however, neither bills of material nor routings are required). You also can assign bill of material references and/or routing references to non–standard discrete jobs to create material requirements, schedule operations, and create resource requirements.
Further, you can attach illustrative or explanatory files (in the form of text, images, word processing documents, spreadsheets, video, and so on) to discrete jobs.
After saving a job, use the Component and Operations buttons to immediately view the details of the job, including its material requirements, operations, and operation material and resource requirements.

Default job names can only be automatically generated by the automatic sequence generator if a prefix has been specified for the WIP:Discrete Job Prefix profile option.

1. Enter or generate the Job name.
You can generate a default Job name by choosing Apply Default Job Name from the Tools menu or by simply pressing the tab key. If you do enter the job name, it must be unique and alphanumeric.

2. Select the job Type, either Standard or Non–Standard.

3. If defining a standard discrete job, select the job Assembly. The assembly is the item you are building. If a primary bill of
material, primary routing, or both exist for this assembly, they are defaulted.
You cannot select an assembly that has a primary routing that is Flow related. If you do, a warning is displayed and you are prompted to enter another routing designator.

Assemblies are optional for non–standard discrete jobs, however, you must enter them for non–standard discrete jobs with routings if you want to track shop floor move and resource transactions.

4. Select the accounting Class.
If a default discrete WIP accounting class can be found, it is used. For non–standard jobs, you can select any active Asset
Non–standard or Expense Non–standard accounting class.

5. Select the job Status.
When you define a job, its status defaults to Unreleased but can be changed to Released or On Hold.

Check the Firm check box to firm your job. You cannot firm a non–standard discrete job.
Firming a discrete job prevents MRP from suggesting rescheduling and replanning recommendations when changes to supply or demand occur. If replanning is required, the MRP planning process creates new jobs to cover the new demand.

6. Enter the job Start quantity.
Standard discrete jobs must have a start quantity greater than zero. When you enter a start quantity for jobs with bills and routings, the component material requirements, department schedules, resource load, and job start and end dates are all determined automatically.
For non–standard jobs, if you enter a start quantity of 0 and specify a bill of material reference, the corresponding bill is exploded but material requirements equal to 0 are created. To perform move and completion transactions for a non–standard job, the start quantity must be greater than zero.

Enter the MRP Net quantity.
The MRP net quantity is the number of assemblies that MRP considers as supply on the scheduled completion date.
For standard and non–standard discrete jobs with assemblies, the MRP net quantity is derived from the job start quantity. For non–standard discrete jobs without assemblies, the default is zero.