The Job Management module contains the central application functions for manufacturing processes. Job Entry pulls information from sales orders, purchase orders, inventory, and other sources into its core component – the job record. You then assign each job record a method of manufacturing. This method in turn defines the job’s schedule for its production within your company’s manufacturing center.

To help you create jobs, two key tools are available – the Job Manager and the Planning Workbench. Use the Job Manager to review the demand for a part and then answer this demand by creating jobs. Use the Planning Workbench to evaluate suggestions made to the manufacturing center through sales orders, other jobs, and inventory requests. You can then create the jobs you need.

As a job’s operations are worked on by shop employees, labor is recorded against these operations, so you can precisely track labor costs. Use the Job Tracker to accurately review the current real time status of any job. At any point in the process, you can review a job through three key reports – the Job Traveler, the Production Detail Report, and the Time Phased Material Requirements Report. Each report helps your supervisors manage job production from operation to operation.

You then finish the production cycle by indicating when production is complete and when the job is finally finished, or closed. The part quantity can then be shipped to your customers, completing the job management process.