Routings

You use this program to capture and maintain bill of material routings required within the system.

Menu and Toolbar

Field	Description
File
Save and Close	This saves the details you entered or changed and returns to the previous screen.
Close	This returns you to the previous screen.
New	This adds a new data record.
Save	This saves the details you entered or changed.
Route	Indicate the route code that you want to maintain. The route is validated to establish whether it can be used in jobs. Kit types only use route 0, as they can't be manufactured and can't be a component in a structure. Although production routes per product have been increased to 1000, every route is uniquely identified by a 2-character alphanumeric code that can consist of a combination of numbers, upper- and lowercase letters, as well as special characters.

BOM Route Details

Field	Description
Route	This indicates the route code you entered on the toolbar.
Description	Indicates the name associated with the route. This assists you in verifying that the correct route has been entered and can also be printed on reports.
Password	Assign a password to each of the routings (except the standard route - 0) to restrict the unauthorized usage of a particular route when adding a job in Work in Progress where an alternate routing is selected.
ECC controlled	Indicates the route is available for use by the Engineering Change Control system. Although all routes in Bill of Materials default to being ECC-controlled, you can maintain any of the routes (except route 0) and switch off ECC control for the route. Switching off ECC control will allow a bill of material to be added for an ECC-controlled item for that route, even though structures and routing maintenance has not been enabled for the stock code by means of an engineering change order. In addition, if you import a structure for this route then the current revison/release is used regardless of the revision/release entered on the import file.
Available for jobs	Enables jobs to be added using this route and job postings to be performed for this route.
Branch	This lets you select the WIP branch for the route using the Browse on WIP Branch program.

Notes and warnings

Deletion considerations

• You cannot delete a route once a route has been added as it is not easy to determine whether a route is linked to any bill of materials or job (e.g. it could be linked to one or more BOM structures, BOM routings, ECC structures, ECC routings, live jobs, snapshot jobs, suggested jobs or warehouse control).

• The Save form values as Default option on the short-cut menu in the listview is not available in SYSPRO Web UI (Avanti).

Limits and restrictions

• Up to 99 routings can be captured and used in the Structures and Routings program.