A run through the fields on the Operation Lines

The shopfloor overview in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central gives you a detailed operation line view where each column tells you something specific about the production order and its operations. You can see the production order status, the quantity on the order, the item number and description, the operation number, allocated resources, routing status, manual priority, and the work center or machine center handling the operation.

You can allocate one or more resources directly on the operation line. This is an information field only and has no impact on the planning.

You can change the routing status and the manual priority directly from the line.

The previous routing status column shows you which operations before yours are finished, so you know what is ready for you to work on.

The view shows the sales order number and customer name when that information is available from the planning, so you can connect a production order to the customer it is for.

You can design the operation line view yourself by adding or removing columns to match what you need to see.

Columns on the operation line in the shopfloor overview

The operation line view in the shopfloor overview gives you a row for each operation, with a set of columns that describe both the production order and the operation itself. Here is what each column tells you.

Production order status and quantity

The first column shows the production order status. In the operation view you would normally only see released production orders, although you can filter on both firm planned and released production order numbers.

The quantity column shows how many units are on the order. This field does not come from the production order line, but it is useful to have. If you are producing a mountain bike on a given operation number, you want to know how many you are actually producing. That is why this field is included in the view.

Item, operation and resource information

You can see the item number you are producing and the item description from the production order line, along with the number of the operation.

You can allocate resources directly on the line. This has no impact on the planning. It is an information field where you can add a resource, and you can add more than one if you need to.

Routing status and manual priority

You can see the routing status and change it directly from the line. The same goes for the manual priority, which you can both view and change here.

The previous routing status column is worth paying attention to. If you filter on your work center, you can see all the routing states before yours that are finished. Those operations are ready for you to pick up.

Work center and machine center details

The view shows whether a work center or a machine center is providing the operation, along with the work center or machine center number and the work center group code. You also get the dates, setup time and run time for the operation.

Sales order and customer information

When the information exists on the orders, you can see the sales order number and the customer name. This is possible when the planning can grab that information directly, so you can tie a production operation back to the customer it is for.

Designing the view yourself

These are the main fields you see in the operation line view, and there may be a few more. You can design the view yourself, add the columns you need, and remove the columns you do not want to see.

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