D365 Production Control

Question 1

Core concepts in Production control?

Answer 1

Calendars
Resources
Resource types
Resource capabilities
Bill of materials (BOM)
Routes and operations
Formula
Value streams

Question 2

Resources?

Answer 2

Company’s total working resources. Anything that can be used for the creation, production, or delivery of a good and/or service.

Question 3

Resource types in SCM?

Answer 3

Vendor
Human resources
Machine
Tool
Location
Facility

Question 4

Vendor?

Answer 4

When task is performed by an outside resource or subcontractor

Question 5

Human Resources?

Answer 5

Used to define when personnel or a group of employees conduct an operation

Question 6

Machine?

Answer 6

Use this type to tie an individual machine or group of machines with a resource.

Question 7

Tool?

Answer 7

To control and schedule the reservations of a tool

Question 8

Location?

Answer 8

To control and schedule the reservations of a specific location

Question 9

Facility?

Answer 9

A building or fixed structure that is required to perform an activity

Question 10

Resource capabilities?

Answer 10

Assigned to an operation’s resource.

Question 11

How many capabilities can a resource have?

Answer 11

More than one capability

Question 12

Can capability be assigned to more than one resource?

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

BOM?

Answer 13

Bill of Materials

Question 14

Bill of Materials?

Answer 14

Contains all the ingredients, components, parts, or raw materials that are required to make one finished product

Question 15

Routes and operations?

Answer 15

Determines the process steps that are needed to produce a finished product

Question 16

What do optional settings do?

Answer 16

Control the production process if these are relevant to their production environments.

Question 17

Existing optional settings?

Answer 17

Production groups
Production pools
Properties
Resource capabilities

Question 18

Production groups?

Answer 18

To establish relationships between the production order and ledger accounts.

Question 19

Production pools?

Answer 19

To group production orders for processing urgent production orders or for deleting and posting groups of orders.

Question 20

Properties?

Answer 20

Create special attributes that you can assign to your resources for use in the scheduling process.

Question 21

Production Control modules?

Answer 21

Inventory management
Warehouse management
General ledger
Master planning
Organizational administration
Project accounting
Product information management

Question 22

Production life orders?

Answer 22

Create
Estimate
Schedule
Released
Start
Report as finished
End

Question 23

Production order?

Answer 23

Produces a specific product or product variant in a given quantity on a specific date.

Question 24

Batch order?

Answer 24

Used for process industries and discrete processes where the manufacturing conversion is based on a formula, or where co-products and by-products can be end products.

Question 25

Kanban?

Answer 25

Used to signal repetitive lean manufacturing processes that are based on production flows

Question 26

Project?

Answer 26

Combines products and services with a given schedule and budget.

Question 27

Make to stock?

Answer 27

Classic manufacturing principle, products are produced for stock based on forecast or minimum stock refill.

Question 28

Make to order?

Answer 28

Standard products are made to order or finished to order.

Question 29

Configure to order?

Answer 29

Final operations of the value chain are made to order.

Question 30

Engineer to order?

Answer 30

Addressed by a project and usually start with the engineering phase.

Question 31

Created LC?

Answer 31

Create production order, batch order. kanban manually, configure the system to generate them based on various demand signals.

Question 32

Estimated LC?

Answer 32

Calculate estimates for material and resource consumption.

Question 33

Scheduled LC?

Answer 33

Schedule production based on operations

Question 34

Types of schedules?

Answer 34

Operations Job Kanban

Question 35

Operations scheduling?

Answer 35

Provides rough, long-term plan. | Assign start and end dates to production orders.

Question 36

Job scheduling?

Answer 36

Provides detailed plan. | Each operation is broken down into individual jobs that have specific dates.

Question 37

Kanban schedule?

Answer 37

Scheduled on Kanban schedule board

Question 38

Released LC?

Answer 38

Release the production or batch order when the schedule is finished and the material is available to be picked or prepared.

Question 39

Prepared/Picked LC?

Answer 39

Materials and resources must be staged at the production location.

Question 40

Started LC?

Answer 40

When the production, batch order is started the material and resource consumption can be reported.

Question 41

Report Progress/Complete Jobs LC?

Answer 41

Use manufacturing execution system terminal, production journals, kanban boards to report production progress/.

Question 42

Reported as finished LC?

Answer 42

When orders are reported as finished

Question 43

Quality Assessment LC?

Answer 43

Product receipt can trigger the creation of quality orders, rules are established.

Question 44

Put away and Ship to order LC?

Answer 44

After QA, optional put-away work directs the received products to the next point of consumption.

Question 45

Period closure LC?

Answer 45

Some principles require periodic activities to close the inventory or financial period.

Question 46

Discrete manufacturing characteristics?

Answer 46

Order-based production Product changes frequently Varying sequence of work centers Semi-finished products are put into storage

Question 47

Process manufacturing?

Answer 47

Provides integrated functionality for planning, managing, and distributing in process manufacturing.

Question 48

Process manufacturing characteristics?

Answer 48

Uses formula Blends products together in a batch Builds something that cannot be taken apart Has analogous products

Question 49

Lean manufacturing characteristics?

Answer 49

Waste minimization Considers waste created through overburden Emphasizes what adds value and reduces everything that does not add value

Question 50

Lean - Value Stream?

Answer 50

Process of creating, producing, and delivering a good or service to the market

Question 51

Lean - Kaizen?

Answer 51

Continuous improvement | Emphasizes employee participation

Question 52

Lean - Work (Cell)

Answer 52

Manufacturing or service unit consisting of several workstations and the materials transport mechanisms and storage buffers that interconnect them.

Question 53

Lean - Cycle Time?

Answer 53

The time of a product refers to the time between the completion of two discrete units of production

Question 54

Lean - Takt time?

Answer 54

Sets the pace of production to match the rate of customer demand and becomes the rhythm of any lean production system.

Question 55

Lean - Supermarket?

Answer 55

Areas should be grouped together to enable the material handler to visit on his or her regular routes.

Question 56

Lean - Production flow?

Answer 56

The flow of material and products throughout work cells and locations for a specific production or supply scenario can be described as a sequence or small network of process.

Question 57

Lean - Backflush costing?

Answer 57

Omits recording some or all of the journal entries that relate to the stages from the purchase of direct materials.

Question 58

Lean - Kanban?

Answer 58

Visible record. Controlling production and internal supply.

Question 59

Lean - Heijunka leveling?

Answer 59

Production leveling technique using either volume or product mix.