After defining a work center, you need to define a way to specify under which conditions you should use the work center. This is accomplished by defining routings. For our example, we are going to keep it simple and use routing to send our manufacture order to the printing work center for the finished product to be produced. In a real-world example, the job may use routings to go through many work center operations before the final product is produced.

To create a routing order, go to the Manufacturing application and choose Routings under the Master Data submenu. Click Create to bring up the new routing form:

In our example, we have named the routing Print Job.

Next, we will define our work station operation by clicking Add an Item and bringing up the Operation form:

When defining our operation, we can name it whatever we wish, but in this case, I picked Print T-Shirt. This indicates that this operation is more specific than the simple Print Job we are assigning to the routing order.

For complex routings, you can specify the sequence of the operations. We could, for example, have a Design operation and a Build Screen operation before the print job operation. Then, we could specify a Quality Assurance operation and a Packing operation after the Print Job. You would handle all these exactly the same way you set up the printing work center and created the required operations to produce the product. By starting simple and adding additional operations and complexity over time, you can often get up and running much more quickly than trying to track every little task right from the beginning.

Once you have set up your operation, your routing should resemble the following form:

Here, we can see the finished routing along with the operation details.