When you have completed the planning with all the entries you wish to make, you can release the order. The employees on site cannot start with the defined activities until you have released it.
You can also release orders as soon as they have been created. This option is available for orders that the system has generated automatically, in other words:
Using a maintenance plan (maintenance call)
For orders that have been created from a notification by choosing
or .Releasing an Order Within Maintenance Processing
You can only perform the following activities after you have released the order:
Printing shop papers
Since, on many sites, the two work steps release and print shop papers always follow each other directly, you have the option of triggering both these steps with one single function in the system. See Putting an Order in Process.
Withdraw material
Post goods receipts
Create time confirmations
Complete task
Note
In many cases, technical completion is an integral part of performing and completing the work. Entry of the technical completion does not, however, depend on whether the order has been released or not.
If you want to be able to release orders as soon as they have been created, a system administrator must have set the Release immediately
indicator for the appropriate order types in Customizing.
When you release an order, its status is then REL
. This status is a prerequisite for executing the dependent functions outlined above.
When you release an order, the system checks the availability of materials and production resources/tools as well as the required authorizations. At the latest when the order is released, the material reservations are MRP-relevant and ready for withdrawal, and the purchase requisitions are created.
Furthermore, the following is valid for refurbishment orders:
After a refurbishment order has been released, you can no longer change the following data:
The total quantity of spares to be refurbished and their unit of measure on the header data screen of the order
All the entries in the Refurbishment
section on the header data screen of the order
The item for the spares to be refurbished in the component list of the order