Pausing Production Orders

the pausing production orders feature lets you temporarily stop the progress on production orders that have already started, without losing any progress or data what does pausing mean? when you pause a production order, planeus removes it from the active planning schedule all related work steps are paused as well paused work steps are not included in planning until you resume the order what data will be saved? any feedback already recorded for the paused production order stays saved when you resume the order later only the remaining quantity is scheduled again remaining quantity = target quantity minus any already confirmed quantities from feedback if the original technology included fixed dates , planeus ignores those when you resume the production order what’s the difference between unscheduling and pausing? it’s easy to mix up unscheduling and pausing here’s how they’re different unscheduling an order item unscheduling order item will deletes all related data , including production orders work steps processes feedback records use this if you haven’t started work yet and want to fully remove an order item from your plan pausing a production order keeps all data and their feedback safe and unchanged simply puts the production order on hold so you can resume it later without losing any data perfect for handling unexpected situations, like missing materials machine breakdowns changing priorities how to pause a production order? open the detail panel for the production order click pause production order paused production orders will be marked with a special symbol in the status column how to unpause a production order open the detail panel for the paused production order click unpause order when scheduing a unpaused order item, planeus will reschedule the production order forward from today or chosen start date plan only the remaining quantity for each work step changing quantities in production orders you can change the quantity directly in the production order’s quantity field when you change the quantity it will reschedule the production order detele all existing feedback adding multiple production orders to one process you can manually add additional production orders to an existing production process go to the detail panel under planning objects > processes add new production orders as needed this makes it easy to expand processes without starting over the pause production orders feature gives you the flexibility to temporarily stop work and pick it up again later — keeping your planning agile and your data safe