About Importing Outside Processing
As part of work order execution, a material lot may be sent to a third-party application
(outside processing) before being returned to the in-progress work order. Outside
processing is handled within work order execution through the creation of a non-clocking
operation, which is marked as complete when the material lot is returned. The parameters
listed below allow details to be passed to/from the outside processing operation with
the material lot. The ability to use these parameters depends on the schema version
being used. For further information, see Supported
Schema Versions for Importing Materials.
- materialLot: Identifies the material lots, per work order and operation, that have been returned by the outside process.
- lotIdentifer: For physical material lots returned, this is an empty string. If material lots were returned via a receiver, this is a string value representing the receiver's name.
- materialSublots: A list of of material lots and their quantity.
- productName: The Plant Applications product code for the material sublots. The value must be an empty string for the receiver lot.
- quantity: The sum of the quantity of all sublots. If the quantities are not equal, the inbound processing will fail. For the receiver material lot, the quantity must be 1 or greater.
- unitOfMeasure: The unit of measure of the material lot
- description: Must be the string "receiver" to describe the receiver lot; can be an empty string.
- propertyName and propertyValue: Identifies the properties, and their values, of the material lot. The values supported for material lots are "propertyName": "Work Order" and "propertyName": "Operation" where the values are the work order name and operation name that indicate to the non-clocking operation that the material lots have received the quantity to complete.