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		<Title xmlns:ssa="http://www.ssaglobal.com" xmlns:HTML="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">Place and functions of operations</Title>
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	<GeneralSection><Paragraph>To manufacture an item, a series of <Link href="/baanerp/ti/glossary/glossary#000000000000052" role="glossary">operations</Link> must be performed. The sequence order of such operations is called a routing in SSA ERP.</Paragraph>
		<List><ListIntro>The <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/rou" role="module">Routing</GUIRef> module lets you:</ListIntro>
			<ListItem>define routings for standard items.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>define item-independent routing (that is, a standard routing).</ListItem>
			<ListItem>define multiple routings for an item.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>define an order quantity for each routing.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>determine the work center (that is, the bottleneck work center) that governs the production rate of repetitive items.</ListItem>
			<ListItem>calculate the production rate.</ListItem>
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		<Paragraph>Routings are important for production order planning in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp/rrp" role="module">Resource Requirement Planning</GUIRef> module of <GUIRef href="/baanerp/cp" role="package">Enterprise Planning</GUIRef>, and in the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/sfc" role="module">Shop Floor Control</GUIRef> module and the <GUIRef href="/baanerp/ti/cpr" role="module">Cost Price Calculation</GUIRef> module.</Paragraph>
		<Paragraph>You can define both standard routings and item routings. Item routings can refer to standard routings. For each item, you can record multiple routings.</Paragraph>
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