Committing the Schedule and Sending to Manufacturing

Purpose

In the case of committing an order, to confirm that the short-term horizon of the schedule is ready for execution by the shop floor and should no longer be rescheduled. In the case of setting an order to manufacturing, to indicate that the schedule has been transmitted to the floor team and is expected to begin as outlined in the schedule.

Committing an order is not permanent; orders can be uncommitted at any time. The same is true for orders set as manufacturing. For more information, see the work instruction Unscheduling and Uncommitting Orders.

Prerequisites

Schedule Created.

Committed Warning Message

QAD Advanced Scheduling allows you to configure a “committed window” and expects that orders inside this time window should be committed. The order's scheduling icon will turn red and a warning message will be generated.

Steps

In the left-side menu, under “General”, click “Schedules”, and then select the line or line group for which you want to schedule orders.
Select the order(s) to be committed. For selecting multiple orders, see Multi-Select.
Click on “Commit” to the right of the selected order(s).
The order icon will change to green (unless there are other issues to be addressed) and say “committed”.

To set an order to manufacturing, an order must first be committed. Select the committed order to be set to manufacturing and click on “To Manufacturing” to the right of the selected order(s).