Work Center Setup
You can maintain general information about a work center, such as pay points, prime load codes, number of machines and workers, crew size, and backflush locations. You set up work centers by branch/plant, which means that you can associate the same work center with multiple branch/plants. You can also define a unique shop floor calendar for a particular combination of work center and branch/plant.
From the Enter/Change Work Centers program (P3006), you can access business unit information to maintain business units and track costs.
If you use JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Warehouse Management and do not set up valid work center locations, the system interfaces with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Warehouse Management when you attach a parts list to a work order. If you set up valid work center locations before you attach a parts list, but the work order quantity exceeds the quantity that you have in the work center, the system uses JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Warehouse Management to create a pick request for the remaining quantity to fill the work order request. This process follows the rules that you define in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Warehouse Management.
Use the Enter/Change Work Centers program to set up production lines for repetitive manufacturing. This setup consists of linking work centers together to establish a specific repetitive line on which a product family will be manufactured.