Work Order Processing

Streamline work order production from start to finish
The demand for customized and personalized products continues to rise. As a result, manufacturing execution in many industries has evolved from a make-to-stock production environment to an extensive job shop. In this environment, work orders rule the day.

Controlled chaos?
Without system-directed processing, you can’t control work order chaos

This new reality requires a different set of controls to precisely direct work while providing operational agility, efficiency and visibility. Product tracking and traceability is also a critical consideration.

Controlling the Chaos

RedPrairie Work Order Processing brings order to the chaos of handling large volumes of work orders through a highly-configurable process engine. Designed to help you meet specific customer needs, it assigns, sequences and directs all tasks to ensure timely, consistent and accurate completion of work order production.

That means customers get what they want, the way and when they want it. Work Order Processing functionality includes:

• Work order assignment, sequencing and execution
• Raw material control, including back-flushing
• Multi-level Bills of Material
• Postponement strategies
• Performed resource or planning to production stations
• Value-added services
• Work cell planning and scheduling

RedPrairie Work Order Processing also traces products as they move through the production cycle, so nothing gets lost in the shuffle. With full visibility into the process, you can quickly adjust production as requirements change, including schedules on the production lines. It’s a tool you can’t afford to be without in today’s demand driven manufacturing environment.