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		<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Order grouping</Title>
		<Keyword><Level1>SFC order grouping</Level1>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword><Level1>production order grouping</Level1>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword><Level1>grouping</Level1>
			<Level2>SFC orders</Level2>
		</Keyword>
		<Keyword><Level1>grouping</Level1>
			<Level2>orders</Level2>
		</Keyword>
	</Header>
	<GeneralSection><Paragraph>An SFC order group is a group of production orders, defined by the user. You can add production orders individually, or specify criteria to ensure the orders with common features are grouped. Once a group is formed, you can use it to carry out actions on all the production orders within the group at the same time, for example, reporting orders as completed, printing order documents, or closing orders.</Paragraph>
		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>Advantages of SFC order groups</SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph>If you group your production orders together in an SFC order group this gives greater efficiency in data-handling in SSA ERP- for instance you only need to perform one action to report a whole group of production orders complete. If you organise your production using SFC order groups this can also help you to improve your manufacturing efficiency on the shop floor. For example, you can increase material utilization, or decrease tool changeover times. If all orders using the same tooling are grouped, you have to change tools less often. You can also see the physical location where a task is carried out for all the production orders in a group. Your administration can also be more efficient. For example, all material requirements can be printed on one combined report for the entire order group.</Paragraph>
		</GeneralSection>
		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>How to group production orders</SectionTitle>
			<List><ListIntro>SFC order groups can come from one of two sources:</ListIntro>
				<ListItem>Transferred from the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef> package. For more details, refer to <Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000313" role="manual">Order grouping in Enterprise Planning</Link>.</ListItem>
				<ListItem>Created in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc" role="module">Shop Floor Control</GUIRef> module. More details given in the rest of this Help topic.</ListItem>
			</List>
		</GeneralSection>
		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>How to create an SFC order group</SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph>Use the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc3250m000" role="session">Create SFC Order Group (tisfc3250m000)</GUIRef> session to define criteria by which the orders are grouped.</Paragraph>
			<List><ListItem>You can add orders to the group individually.</ListItem>
				<ListItem>You can group orders according to a wide variety of criteria, such as orders belonging to the same routing group, orders processed in the same shop floor warehouse, or orders with the same <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0130m000#tisfc001.pldt" role="formfield">Planned Delivery Date</GUIRef>.</ListItem>
				<ListItem>You can group orders according to the end item or component items.</ListItem>
			</List>
			<Paragraph>You must select critera according to the way you intend to use the order group. For instance, if you want to simultaneously report the operations of all the production orders in a group as completed, you must select criteria related to the routing of the orders. However, if you want to use order groups for material issue, it might be more sensible to group orders that share the same component items.</Paragraph>
			<Paragraph>If you click <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc3250m000#continue.process" role="formcommand">Create Group</GUIRef> in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc3250m000" role="session">Create SFC Order Group (tisfc3250m000)</GUIRef> session, the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc3151s000" role="session">Assign Production Orders to SFC Order Group (tisfc3151s000)</GUIRef> session starts. In that session you can fine-tune your selection: you can accept or reject individual orders.</Paragraph>
			<Paragraph>After you have made your final selection in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc3151s000" role="session">Assign Production Orders to SFC Order Group (tisfc3151s000)</GUIRef> session, you can view the contents of the order groups in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0501m100" role="session">SFC Grouped Orders (tisfc0501m100)</GUIRef> session. You can also use the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0501m100" role="session">SFC Grouped Orders (tisfc0501m100)</GUIRef> session to remove any orders at a later stage, for example, if they fail quality control and you then cannot report them as completed with the rest of the group.</Paragraph>
		</GeneralSection>
		<GeneralSection><SectionTitle>How to use SFC order groups</SectionTitle>
			<List><ListIntro>You can process all the production orders of an order group simultaneously in the following sessions:</ListIntro>
				<ListItem><Link href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0204m000" role="session">Release Production Orders (tisfc0204m000)</Link>
				</ListItem>
				<ListItem><Link href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0408m000" role="session">Print Production Order Documents (tisfc0408m000)</Link>
				</ListItem>
				<ListItem><Link href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0416m000" role="session">Print Inventory by Production Order (tisfc0416m000)</Link>
				</ListItem>
				<ListItem><Link href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0418m000" role="session">Print Shortages by Production Order (tisfc0418m000)</Link>
				</ListItem>
				<ListItem><Link href="/baanerp/ti/cst/ticst1501m000" role="session">Material to Issue for Production Orders (ticst1501m000)</Link>
				</ListItem>
				<ListItem><Link href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0207m000" role="session">Initiate Inventory Issue (tisfc0207m000)</Link>
				</ListItem>
				<ListItem><Link href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0210m000" role="session">Update Physical Location for Grouped Orders (tisfc0210m000)</Link>
				</ListItem>
				<ListItem><Link href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0220m000" role="session">Backflush Materials and Hours (tisfc0220m000)</Link>
				</ListItem>
				<ListItem><Link href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0205m000" role="session">Report Operations Complete by Order Group (tisfc0205m000)</Link>
				</ListItem>
				<ListItem><Link href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0201m000" role="session">Build Utilization (tisfc0201m000)</Link>
				</ListItem>
				<ListItem><Link href="/baanerp/wh/inh/whinh4201m000" role="session">Generate Outbound Advice (whinh4201m000)</Link>
				</ListItem>
				<ListItem><Link href="/baanerp/wh/inh/whinh4202m000" role="session">Release Outbound Advice (whinh4202m000)</Link>
				</ListItem>
				<ListItem><Link href="/baanerp/wh/inh/whinh4200m000" role="session">Process Outbound Advice (whinh4200m000)</Link>
				</ListItem>
				<ListItem><Link href="/baanerp/wh/inh/whinh4415m000" role="session">Generate Picking List (whinh4415m000)</Link>
				</ListItem>
			</List>
		</GeneralSection>
		<Note><SectionTitle>Note</SectionTitle>
			<Paragraph>You cannot use the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0203m000" role="session">Cancel Production Orders (tisfc0203m000)</GUIRef> session for order groups. If you want to cancel a production order, you must first remove it from a group in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc/tisfc0501m100" role="session">SFC Grouped Orders (tisfc0501m100)</GUIRef> session, then cancel it.</Paragraph>
		</Note>
	</GeneralSection>
	<RelatedTopics><SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/ti/onlinemanual/000001" role="manual">Production orders - functional overview</Link>
		</RelTopic>
		<RelTopic><Link href="/baanerp/cp/onlinemanual/000313" role="manual">Order grouping in Enterprise Planning</Link>
		</RelTopic>
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		</RelTopic>
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</ManualTopic>
