| # Canceling Range of Production Orders Introduction Sometimes, you need to dispose of multiple production orders, for example, in the following situations: A customer has canceled several sales orders, and the related production orders are not required anymore. Many production orders with production order status Planned were accidentally released prematurely. Materials If you remove production orders, LN can perform one or more of the following additional actions, depending on user settings and conditions described later: Cancel the issue of materials from the warehouse. Return issued materials to the warehouse. Cancel the issue of materials If you remove a production order, LN tries to cancel the outbound process for the production order's materials. Note that LN cannot always cancel this process; that also depends on the setting of the warehousing functionality. Return issued materials If you select the Return issued Materials check box, LN tries to return the materials that had already been issued. Note however, that the warehousing functionality does not always permit the return of issued materials. Set production order to Completed In some situations, LN can no longer delete a production order, or example, if hours have been reported for the production order. In that case, you can change the production order status to Completed and set the quantity completed to zero. If some production orders cannot be deleted or canceled, and you selected the Complete remaining Orders check box, LN sets those production order to Completed. If LN sets production orders to deleted, LN also tries to cancel the issuing of materials and optionally tries to return issued materials to the warehouse. Important! LN cannot always cancel the issue of materials or return the materials to the warehouse. After you use this session, you must check the report with the executed actions, to see whether manual actions are required to handle the materials. Delete, cancel, or set to completed If you remove production orders, LN can perform several actions: Delete production orders Cancel production orders Set production orders to completed, with a completed quantity of zero The actions that you can perform on a production order by using this session, depend on the production orders'production order status. For more information, refer to Production order status. The following table shows which actions you can execute.
Production order status | Possible actions | Production order | Materials
Planned, Scheduled, or Documents Printed | Delete production order | This action completely deletes the production order from the database. | Materials have not yet been issued.
Released | Cancel production order | This action completely deletes the production order from the database, including the financial transaction data. | This action attempts to cancel the issue of material from the warehouse.
Set production order to completed | LN sets the production order status to Completed; the quantity completed is set to zero. | LN attempts to cancel the issue of materials. Optionally, this action returns issued materials to the issuing warehouse.
Active | Set production order to completed | LN sets the production order status to Completed; the quantity completed is set to zero. | LN attempts to cancel the issue of materials. Optionally, this action returns issued materials to the issuing warehouse.
To determine which of the possible actions this session will execute, select or clear the following check boxes: Delete Cancel Return issued Materials Complete remaining Orders Selection of production orders You can select the production orders that must be removed in two ways: Specify ranges of characteristics of production orders. Specify an order group. For more information, refer to Order grouping. Selection ranges You can specify ranges of characteristics of production orders. Every range you specify further restricts the set of selected production orders. Some examples of selections of production orders: You can remove all production orders for a particular item. You can remove production orders for all production orders linked to a particular shop floor planner, planned to start next month or later. Important! If you use selection ranges to select the production orders to be removed, LN does not remove production orders that belong to an order group, even if you include some of these production orders in the selection ranges. Report If you remove production orders or simulate the removal of production orders, LN prints a report that indicates what LN did with every selected production order. The following table shows which actions the report can contain.
Printed in report | Description
None | No action was completed; nothing has been changed for the production order.
Deleted | The production order was deleted.
Cancelled | The production order was canceled.
Completed | The production order was set to completed.
Mat. Chg | The issuing of materials was canceled or materials were returned, but the production order could not be deleted, canceled, or set to completed.
Error | An error occurred, for example, a record could not be found.
Related topics Production order status Order grouping |