Create a process route map

You can view route map for a process with multiple operations. You can also view the flow of material from entities within an operation to entities within other operations. You can drag and drop an entity from one operation to the next and modify the percentages, if required.

You need to create a route map if a process contains more than one operation. A route map describes the flow of material through a process. You can create a route by drawing lines from the entities in a source operation to the entities in a destination operation. You must draw a line from every entity in the source operation to every entity in the destination operation.

Each routing line has a percentage associated with it that determines the amount of material that flows from one entity to another. You can change the percentage of any line to any number between 0 and 100, but the total of all the lines leaving an entity must add up to 100 percent. If you have a source operation with two entities and a destination operation with two entities, you would draw four route lines. If one of the destination entities is faster, you may need to adjust the percentages leaving your source entities so that 60 percent of the material from each of the source entities goes to the faster destination and 40 percent of the material from the source entities goes to the slower entity.

You can have multiple source operations linked to one destination operation. For example, if you have a process to make filled cookies, you may have an operation to make the top of the cookie, an operation to make the filling, and an operation to make the bottom of the cookie. All these operations to make cookies run in parallel. These three operations can send their output to an operation that combines them to make a cookie.

You can also have one source operation linked with multiple destination operations. If you had a process to build wagons, you may have an operation to produce wheels that feed another operation to produce the front wheel assembly and another operation that produces the rear wheel assembly.

Note: You must create a route map for a process before creating a work order from it.

To create a route map

1. Select the process.

2. On the ribbon, go to the Current View tab.

3. In the Diagrams group, click View Route Map.

   The route map appears in a tab in the workspace.

   

4. Create a route map between two jobs in entities operations by selecting the entity in the source operation and dragging to the entity in the destination operation.

   

All entities in the source operation must be linked to all entities in the destination operation. If an operation sends output to more than one entity in a destination operation, you can edit the percentage of material for each route line by:

• Clicking on the box in the route line and changing the number

• Clicking on the source entity and changing the values in the grid.

The total value for all the route lines leaving an entity should be 100 percent.