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To convert material into produced end items, you must set up production resources, such as bills of material, routings, machine operators, and machinery.
In Business Central, machine centers represent operators and machines. You can organize machine centers in work centers and work center groups. When these resources are established, you can load them with operations according to the item's defined material (BOM) and process (routing) structure, and according to the capacity of the machine or work center. You can also set the production capacity of each resource. The work time available in the machine and work centers define capacity, governed by calendars for each level. A work center calendar specifies the working days or hours, shifts, holidays, and absence that determine the work center's gross available capacity (typically measured in minutes). The efficiency and capacity values you define determine all of these things.
After you set up manufacturing, you can plan and fulfill production orders. To learn more, go to Planning and Manufacturing.
The following table describes a sequence of tasks, with links to the articles that describe them.
| To | Go to |
|---|---|
| Configure the manufacturing features, such as defining shop floor work hours and cost calculation parameters. | Manufacturing Setup |
| On the Planning tab on the Inventory Setup page, set global planning parameters that override parameters set on individual item cards. | Design Details: Planning Parameters |
| Define a standard working week in the manufacturing department in terms of starting and ending times of each work day and related work shift. | Create Shop Calendars |
| To govern their output of production performed, organize fixed values and requirements of production resources as work centers or machine centers. | Set Up Work Centers and Machine Centers |
| Organize production operations in the required order and assign them to work centers or machine centers with the required work times. | Create Routings |
| Organize production components or subassemblies under a produced parent item and certify the BOM for execution at work centers. | Create Production BOMs |
| Make sure that the right component quantity is available when produced items are stocked in one unit of measure but produced in another. | Work With Manufacturing Batch Units of Measure |
| To save consumption, define families of production items with similar manufacturing processes. For example, four pieces of the same item can be produced from one sheet and 10 pieces of another, different, item at the same time. | Work With Production Families |
| Use standard tasks to simplify the creation of routings by quickly attaching extra information to recurring operations. | Set Up Standard Routing Lines |
| Prepare work centers and routings to represent subcontracted production operations. | Subcontract Manufacturing |
Manufacturing Setup
The Manufacturing Setup page controls global defaults for production scheduling, costing, and journal behavior. To open the page, Select Search (Alt+Q) 
in the upper-right corner, enter Manufacturing Setup, and then choose the related link. The next few sections describe the fields on the page's FastTabs.
General FastTab
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Normal Starting Time / Normal Ending Time | Default workday boundaries used when creating shop calendars. Individual work center calendars can override these values. |
| Preset Output Quantity | Controls the default output quantity when you open a production journal. Expected Quantity prefills with the remaining quantity. Zero on All Operations or Zero on Last Operation starts at zero so operators enter actual output. |
| Default Consumption Calculation Based on | Determines whether automatic consumption flushing calculates component quantities from Actual Output (what was produced) or Expected Output (the planned production quantity). |
| Show Capacity In | The default capacity unit of measure (for example, Minutes or Hours) used across work center cards and reports. |
| Cost Incl. Setup | When turned on, setup time from routing operations is included in the standard cost calculation. Turn it off to exclude setup time from costing. |
| Dynamic Low-Level Code | Recalculates BOM hierarchy levels automatically when you modify production BOMs. Required for correct planning of multilevel production structures. Might affect performance in environments with large BOM structures. |
| Doc. No. Is Prod. Order No. | Uses the production order number as the document number in item and capacity ledger entries, which makes it easier to trace posted entries back to their production order. |
| Planning Warning | When turned on, the planning system raises warnings when planned shipment dates can't be met. |
| Default Flushing Method | The flushing method assigned to new items by default. You can override this value on individual item cards. |
| Allow Finishing Prod. Order with no Output | Allows you to change the status of a production order to Finished even when no output was posted. The remaining work-in-process (WIP) is written off to the inventory adjustment account. |
Planning FastTab
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Components at Location | The default location where processes consume production components. The planning system uses this location when a stockkeeping unit doesn't specify a location. |
Numbering FastTab
This FastTab defines the number series for production orders (Simulated, Planned, Firm Planned, Released), work centers, machine centers, production BOMs, and routings. Each field links to a number series that controls automatic numbering.
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