Manufacturing and engineering FAQ
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Can material requisitions be controlled separately from shop order goods issues?
How is lot size actually determined in a demand or operative plan?
Can we cap the maximum lot size a planning run generates, so oversized demand automatically splits into multiple shop orders?
Shop Order backflush costs seem inaccurate, and it's unclear how or when the Latest Purchase Price on an inventory part actually gets refreshed.
Parts listed on an Engineering Part Revision's Consist Of tab don't appear on the corresponding Product Structure's Components after creating the Inventory Part, even though the documentation suggests Consist Of data should flow through to the Product Structure.
Are Work Order Pick Lists and Customer Order/Shipment Pick Lists genuinely different underlying data structures despite sharing the same "Pick List" name, since their numbering sequences and available Source Ref options don't line up?
How is the accounting information shown in the Inventory Transaction History window's Accounting tab actually linked back to a specific inventory transaction, since the underlying accounting table doesn't obviously expose a transaction ID, site, or part number column?
For an MES-style integration that needs to start a Shop Order operation's run/setup time clocking for a team, is there a single API call for this — the API Explorer only seems to show individual machine or labor clockings, or a multi-step virtual-assistant-table workaround?
Clicking 'Approve' on the Shop Floor Workbench page opens an Assistant, but it's not obvious which page/assistant that actually is, or how to reach it directly through the Navigator or Page Designer to configure it.
The 'Engineering Transfer In Progress' menu option doesn't appear for some Engineering Revision Transfer Action records, even though it does for others — is this a missing permission?
Is there a way to make 'Change Request' and 'Change Action' show up as available options alongside the standard attachment options (like Document, Media Item) on an attachment-enabled screen?
Trying to start an MRB (Material Review Board) case directly from a Purchase Order or its lines doesn't show an MRB option on right-click, even though MRB is used elsewhere in the system.
When creating a new Inventory Part, is it possible to have the Part Number field auto-populate (e.g. from an Oracle sequence) instead of requiring it to be typed in manually every time?
Trying to insert a Shop Order History record from a Custom Event triggered by a change on the same table throws a 'mutating table' error, and routing the insert through a background job (transaction_sys.deferred_call) instead runs into its own argument error — what's the correct way to create Shop Order History records from a Custom Event?
A custom field on Shop Order has a configured default value, but when a Shop Order gets automatically created as a side effect of releasing a manufactured Customer Order line, no record is created in the custom field's underlying table at all, so the default value never gets set. How can this be made to work for a system-generated Shop Order?
Is it possible to add a new object type, like Shipment, to the pre-defined list of Object Connections available on a Non-Conformance Report (NCR)?
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