Manufacturing Mobile Best Practices

Manufacturing Preferences

• To help avoid potential build failure, enable the Manufacturing Preferences Allow Overage on Work Order Transactions to set the Manufacturing Issue Based on Commitment to Limit to Committed.

• Manufacturing Mobile does not support component commitment functionality.

Manufacturing Mobile Preference Settings

Before Creating a Manufacturing Mobile Work Order, make sure you configure Manufacturing Mobile Preferences at an account level.

Trigger Builds

• You should Trigger Builds based on how often data needs to be pushed to NetSuite.

• By default, the Real Time Build box is checked and enabled for all types of work orders.

  You can disable the real time build feature while Creating a Manufacturing Mobile Work Order.

  Note:

  To report data through Manufacturing Mobile, do not clear the Real Time Build box.

• To disable default real time build for all work orders create or all work orders created from sales orders, review Manufacturing Mobile Preferences.

Backflush Work Orders

• While Creating a Manufacturing Mobile Work Order, you can automatically consume all work order components at the standard BOM quantities by checking the Backflush box.

  • You can enable backflush with or without real time build and WIP work orders.

  • After you check this box, you can only report production, not consumption, in the mobile scanner.

• Backflush occurs at a work order level, not at a component level.

  If there are any serial controlled components, you cannot enable backflush.

• To avoid build failures when you enable backflush, ensure that there is sufficient component quantity available in the staging bin when you report production quantity. .

For more information, see the following topics:

• Backflush Logic

• Consumption with Backflush

Report Data

• To review common reporting and correcting scenarios, read the Manufacturing Mobile Work Messages topic.

• To make sure that you enter the correct finished goods costing, report consumption before you report production for non-WIP work orders.

Default Work Order Location and Work Center

To assign a default work order location and work center, define at least one static employee group. For more information, see the following topics:

• Creating a Static Employee Group

• Assigning a Default Work Order Location and Work Center

Over-pick Work Orders

• If you use Manufacturing Mobile with Warehouse Management, you can pick more than the quantity in the WMS app for the following work orders:

  • WIP work orders with routing

  • Both WIP and non-WIP work orders with work centers assigned

• To enable over-picking using a mobile device for the supported work orders, configure the following:

  • Creating a WIP Bin for Manufacturing Mobile

  • Activating the Allow Over-picking for Work Orders System Rule

Mobile Customizations

Before you can enable a no-code solution supported by the SCM Mobile framework, set a maximum number of line items for a no-code solution. For more information, see

Mobile Device Requirements and Customizations.

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