Shop floor control converts the planning data in material requirements planning into actual production orders and coordinates the production process with all the resources involved.

The main tool for carrying out production is the production order. The production order generates capacity requirements at the detailed planning level and these are dispatched during capacity leveling.

You specify the following in a production order:

• What is produced

• On what date production should take place

• How much production costs

• To which work centers capacity requirements should be dispatched

Please refer to the guide PP - Production Orders for more detailed information on production orders.