Make Production
One of the Inventory Optimization processes.
Making a scenario Production enables orders to be generated against the stocking levels. The Make Production process can be run on a scenario that has a state of Complete or Promoted To Production. All SKUs for the Scenario that have a Production Approval Type that is not Pending or Disapproved is uploaded to the production tables.
• Only one scenario can be selected at a time. However, multiple scenarios in production are supported, so it is possible to see more than one scenario with a state of Production.
• When a scenario has a pending SKU, a message is displayed that warns the user that the pending SKU will not be moved to production.
• When a scenario has no approved SKU values, a message is displayed that warns the user that the scenario will not be made production.
• If another scenario was production, the state of that scenario is changed to Complete when the new scenario is made production. The results can be viewed in the Scenario Summary page.
• The Respect Override value on the scenario must be set to Yes to run the Make Production process on that scenario.
These global settings are related to the Make Production process:
• IO_EVALUATE_EMERGENCY_BACKUP_VALUES — This global setting controls when the Emergency Order values are populated on the summary records for both Production and calculated Scenarios.
◦ When set to false the EO values are not populated on the summary records
◦ When set to true the EO values are populated on the summary records
• IO_EVALUATE_OVERRIDE_COUNT — This global setting controls when the override count values are populated on the summary records for both Production and calculated Scenarios.
◦ When set to false the override count values are not populated on the summary records
◦ When set to true the override count values are populated on the summary records
• IO_EVALUATE_PRODUCTION_PART_SUMMARY — This global setting controls when the part summary information is populated for the Production scenario
◦ When set to false the part summary information is not populated for the Production scenario
◦ When set to true the part summary information is populated for the Production scenario
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With the new IO_CREATE_PROD_SUMMARY_IN_STANDALONE_JOB_ONLY global setting the Production scenario will not have summary data updated. You must run the Generate Summary Data for Production process to update and display the summary data.
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The Make Production process deletes future-period order plan net forecast stock level records for the same part and location being uploaded for a given period. If you Make Production for multiple periods and then make a different scenario production for a shorter horizon, the future order plan net forecast stock level records that are not being uploaded will not have the later records deleted. One such situation is a SKU with production stock levels changing over time, and a new Production scenario with the same level in the current time period. Make Production will not upload the unchanged record in the current period, and that will not delete the future records. This is a different result than if you only made the single period scenario production, because the static value would cascade into the future.
For example:
• Make a scenario production with levels over time of 5, 7, and 9.
• Make another scenario production for the first period only, with a level of 5
The result will still be order plan net forecast stock levels of 5, 7, and 9. If you make another scenario production with a level of 6 then the result will be a single order plan net forecast stock level record of 6 because the presence of the uploaded record will delete the later period records.