To create a flow routing:To create a product synchronization you can design a flow routing including events, processes, and line operations. You can create a routing manually, copy an existing routing, or reference a common routing.
Define at least one department before creating a routing.
Define a line.
BOM Allowed parameter must be set to Yes for the item you are creating a routing.
To create a flow routing:Navigate to the Routings window.
Select the item, or product family or product family members, for creating a flow routing.
Additional Information: For ATO Items, the ATO Model Flow Routing will be used for line balancing, and will be used to create the configured routings during autocreate config. Therefore, define a routing for the model that contains all possible events, processes and operations for all possible options in your model. Then assign the model routing as a common routing for all option classes.
You can assign an existing routing or copy a routing to this Item:
To assign a common routing, choose Assign Common Routing from the Tools menu and select an item to copy.
To copy an existing flow routing, choose Copy Routing From in the Tools menu and select an item to copy.
If you are creating an alternate flow routing, enter an alternate. For a primary flow routing, do not enter an alternate.
Note: To create a standard (nonflow) routing for the same item, use the Bills of Material responsibility.
Optionally, select the Capable to Promise.
Capable to Promise describes an available to promise calculation that considers both available material and capacity of manufacturing and distribution resources. You are able to define one and only one CTP routing for each item.
Enter the line for the flow routing.
If you are updating an existing flow routing, enter the routing revision and the effective date.
Optionally, enter a value in the Total Cycle time field.
The total product cycle time can be manually input now, or can be calculated by the application after you have defined processes and events.
Select a display option to display All, Current, or Future and Current operations effective as of the revision date you specify.
There are several ways to set up events, processes, and operations:
Use the Graphical Line Designer, see Creating the Graphical Network
In the list of values, choose Processes and enter the first process sequence and code. Choose the All Events and enter all events for that process. Close and repeat for all processes. When you are ready to balance your line, choose Line Operations to enter operation sequences and codes. Then assign events to the operations in the All Events region.
Note: The sequence number determines the order in which the processes are displayed in the Mixed Model Map Workbench.
Choose Processes, and enter in all process sequences and codes. Optionally, choose the Line Operations, and enter all operation sequences and codes. Choose All Events tab, and enter in each event in sequence, assigning each to a process, and optionally operation.
Choose the Process tab, and enter in the desired processes. Optionally, choose the Operations tab and enter the desired operations. Choose All Events, and enter the desired events.
If you are using nonstandard events or editing standard events, choose Event Resources and define resource values. For an event, you can also define a department, parent process, and parent line operation.
Note: Processes and line operations must already be assigned to the routing before you assign them to events.
Enter effective date ranges.
For operations in ATO model and option class flow routings, indicate if the event is option dependent. An event is option dependent when the event is dependent on the choice of an optional component. A configured routing will contain all selected components and their related events, all mandatory components and their related events, and all events which are not assigned to a specific component.
Note: All processes and operations will always appear on the configured routing, regardless of whether or not any events assigned to them are included.
Choose the WIP tab to indicate whether to backflush components on shop floor moves at this operation. A backflush transaction automatically pulls operation pull components from inventory. Work in Process also pulls all Operation pull components at nonbackflush operations preceding this operation using the previous completed backflush operation.
Choose the Operation Times tab to define or view operation times and yields.
To view rolled-up operation times, select Calculate Operation Times from the Tools menu. Optionally, enter user defined times. Either can be used in Mixed Model Map Workbench calculations.
Switch to the Operation Times tabbed region and optionally enter operation yield values for processes and/or line operations.
Note: Operation yield values are required to perform calculation of cumulative and reverse cumulative operation yields.
Create a routing network. See: Creating the Graphical Network
Once the routing network is created, calculate cumulative yield, reverse cumulative yield, and net planning percent, by selecting Calculate Operation Yields from the Tools menu. Choose Update Events to add these yields and calculations to events. This is required if you want kanban planning to consider process yields when calculating kanban sizes.
Note: You can also manually insert these values.
To calculate Total Product Cycle Time, choose Calculate Total Product Cycle Time from the Tools menu.
To enter completion subinventory and locator information, view a common flow routing, or enable the routing for use in the Mixed Model Map Workbench, choose the Routing Details.
In the Routing Details window, optionally, enter a priority. Lowest priority routing will be used for backflushes and during autocreate config on ATO items.
Save your work.