Creating a Route Map

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

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

Each routing line has a percentage associated with it that determines the amount of material that flows from one job 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 job must add up to 100 percent. If you have a source operation with two jobs and a destination operation with two jobs, you would draw four route lines. If one of the destination jobs is faster, you may need to adjust the percentages leaving your source jobs so that 60 percent of the material from each of the source jobs goes to the faster destination and 40 percent of the material from the source jobs goes to the slower job.

You can have multiple source operations linked to one destination operation. For example, if you have a work order 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 work order 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.

Create a route map

1. Select the work order to view its route map in the workspace.

2. On the ribbon, click the Current View tab.

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

   

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

All jobs in the source operation must be linked to all jobs in the destination operation. If an operation sends output to more than one job 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 job and changing the values in the grid.

The total value for all the route lines leaving a job should be 100 percent.