Work centers

• Work center (field WST)

Use this field to identify this work center. This is a production resource at which a routing operation is carried out. It is used for planning load times (preparation time, waiting time and post run time), and tracking production time.

You must define the manufacturing site at which this work center is operated, and associate this work center with a group of similar work centers.

• Manufacturing site (field WCRFCY)

Use this field to define the manufacturing site at which this work center is operated.

• Description (field WSTDESAXX)

This long description is used as a title in screens and reports.

By default the short title, the long title or the column header of a data are recorded (on creation/update) in the connection language of the user.
You can add your translation in another language using the Translation function:

• Click Translation from the Actions icon in the corresponding field.
• In the Translation window, add a new language code with the translation in this language.

A user who logs on with this language will view the short description, long description or column header in their connection language if a translation exists. Otherwise, these descriptions will be available in the folder language.

The connection language must be defined as a default language for thefolder.

• Short description (field WSTSHOAXX)

Short title used in the screens and reports. This title is recorded in your connection language.

By default the short title, the long title or the column header of a data are recorded (on creation/update) in the connection language of the user.
You can add your translation in another language using the Translation function:

• Click Translation from the Actions icon in the corresponding field.
• In the Translation window, add a new language code with the translation in this language.

A user who logs on with this language will view the short description, long description or column header in their connection language if a translation exists. Otherwise, these descriptions will be available in the folder language.

The connection language must be defined as a default language for thefolder.

• Work center group (field WCR)

Use this field to identify the group of work centers to which this work center belongs. Work center groups are used to review workloads.

• Work center type (field WSTTYP)

This field identifies the type of operation that is performed at this work center. This might be a machine, a labor resource, or a subcontracted operation. Work centers of type Subcontracting are managed externally by subcontract suppliers.

• Structure (field TWD)

Use this field to assign the workers shift pattern for this work center. For example, a time structure that defines a start time at 08:00 and a end time at 17:42, that is, 7 hours and 42 minutes of work.

Should you need to change a work center or its capacity once it is being used in the manufacturing process, you can change the weekly structure or assign a different weekly capacity using the Work centers modification function (FUNTDUPDW) or Variation of capacity function (FUNTDUVAR), as appropriate.

Calendars are used for calculating the capacity of a work center.
A calendar can be common to multiple work centers or specific to an individual work centre. It is made up of a succession of periods linked to weekly schedules.

• Costing dimension (field VLTCCE)

Use this field to link this work center with your financial accounting. The costing dimension provides financial information on which the calculation of the provisional costs, and the production cost price are based.

• No. of resources (field WSTNBR)

Use this field to define the number that are required for an operation at this particular production resource. For example, if three people are needed to operate this (labor) work center, type in 3.

You must set this field to 1 if you are using the generic Finite scheduleradvanced interface. The Finite scheduler interface provides an integration connector to connect to Sage X3 Web Scheduling or to any web scheduling solution developed by an ISV (independent software vendor) for either cloud or on-premises solutions. The advance interface is active if the GFSA - Finite scheduler advanced activity code is active. Sage X3 Web Scheduling cannot optimize production times when multiple resources are assigned to a work center. This is a limitation of Sage X3 Web Scheduling.

• Automatic closing % (field CLEPCTAUT)

This percentage defines the threshold being applied to automatically close the materials during production tracking.

For instance, if the value is 95% and the material requirement is 200 UN, the system will suggest to close the material if the consumed quantity is greater than or equal to 190 UN.

• Location (field STOLOC)

Use this field to define the default location of this production resource at the defined manufacturing site.

This value is used by stock movement transactions such as receipts, issues, and location changes. It is also used when a component is assigned to an operation where the allocation rule filters by location.

• Qualification level (field QLFLEV)

The qualification level is a 10-character alphanumeric reference field only.

• Run during employee break (field RUNBRKFLG)

Select this check box if this work center must continue running whilst the operator is on a break, or an exclusive indirect task.

This field is only available for work centers of type Machine.

• Constraint (field CONSTRAINT)

A constraint work center is considered by the optimization function as a work center with finite capacity, whilst a non constraint work center has infinite capacity.

Select this check box to indicate that this work center is associated with constraints in terms of finite capacity (machine or labor).

• RCCP (field RCCP)

Rough Cut Capacity Planning in the translation of the French abbreviation "PGC" (for "Planification Globale des Capacités").

This check box characterizes this work center. Select this check box if an operation at this work center is identified as being critical during the manufacturing process. A critical operation is particularly significant when generating macro-routings.

• % efficiency (field EFF)

Efficiency is a way to measure compliance to the preset standards. It can be calculated over a given period by work center: Standard hours calculated for a given production divided by the actual hours worked.
Efficiency makes it possible to correct the standard times of the routing (multiplying factor) according to the used resource.

Two efficiency rates are managed depending on the following:

• Work center: The rate is applied to all the routing operations that will take place at the work center.
• Routing operation: The rate only applies to the considered operation.

If both factors are entered, they add up.
The calculated operating time is corrected in the following way: work center efficiency * operation efficiency * time.

The WSTEFFINH - Work center efficiency history parameter (GPA chapter, MIS group) is used to specify whether the efficiency defined at work center level should be used on the routing operation.

• If WSTEFFINH is set to Yes, the efficiency entered in the work center is suggested by default when creating the routing operation with this work center. The calculated runtime = runtime entered * 1 / operation efficiency.
• If WSTEFFINH is set to No, the efficiency entered in the work center is combined with that entered in the routing operation. The calculated runtime = runtime entered * 1 / work center efficiency * 1 / operation efficiency.

• Shrinkage in % (field SHR)

This percentage is used to balance the quantities on the production operations based on the released quantity.

It is possible to introduce a shrinkage percentage on the work center, which is used to weight the planned runtimes for an operation using this work center by a loss or gain on the quantity produced for the work center.

• Expected time (field EXTHOUTIM)

This field displays the total estimated time for operational work at this work center.

• Actual time (field CPLHOUTIM)

This field displays the total operational time at this work center.

• Cost type (field PCCCOD)

Use this field to assign this work center to a specific cost type. Cost types are used by Project management. In a labor context, a cost type defines the types of labor resource that can affect a project such as operator costs.

• Start date (field STRDAT)

Type in, or select the first date of the period of non-availability of this work center. For example, a specific date this work center is not available because of maintenance, or the first date of an operator's leave of absence.

• End date (field ENDDAT)

Type in, or select the last date of the period of non-availability of this work center. For example, a specific date this work center is not available because of maintenance, or the last date of an operator's leave of absence.

• Reason (field CODVARREA)

• Structure (field VARTWD)

Use this field to define the workers shift pattern against which this exception to the availability of this work center applies. The default shift pattern is the shift pattern defined in the Structure field (TWD).

• No. of resources (field VARWSTNBR)

For this exception to the availability of this work center, use this field to define the variation to the number in the No. of resources field (WSTNBR) that are required for an operation at this particular production resource. For example, if 3 people are defined as needed to operate this (labor) work center but an operator is not available for the defined Capacity variation dates, type in 1.

• Alternate work center (field RPLWST)

Type in, or select a suitable work center that can be used instead of this work center should this work center breakdown or a bottleneck occur, for example.

• Description (field RPLWSTDES)

The description of the work center.

• Priority (field PIO)

Use this field to prioritize this replacement work center. The value must be a number.

• Work center group (field RPLWCR)

This field identifies the group of work centers to which this work center belongs. Work center groups are used to review workloads.

• Work center type (field RPLWSTTYP)

This field identifies the type of operation that is performed at this work center. This might be a machine, a labor resource, or a subcontracted operation. Work centers of type Subcontracting are managed externally by subcontract suppliers.

• Optimization code (field OPTCOD)

Use this field to assign an optimization matrix to this work center. An optimization matrix links products and attributes defined in setup time matrices to define reduced setup times for products with like products to optimize production.

This field is only available if the GFSA - Finite scheduler advanced activity code is active, and the No. of resources field (WSTNBR) is set to 1.

• Description (field OPTDESAXX)

This field identifies this setup time matrix.

• Period end (field PEREND)

This field contains the processing period end date.

• Date (field PERTXT)

This field displays the selected date.

• Adjusted capacity (field PERAVA)

This field displays the capacity reduction in hours of this work center for the displayed period.

• Firm load (field OWFLOD)

This field displays the calculated load on this work center from firm work orders.

• Planned load (field OWPLOD)

This field displays the calculated load on this work center from planned work orders.

• MRP load (field OWSLOD)

This field displays the calculated load on this work center from the material requirements planning calculations.

• MPS load (field ORSLOD)

This field displays the calculated load on this work center from the master productions schedule calculations.

• Period start (field PERSTR)

Processing period start date.