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# Manufacturing Foundations Production Orders (2026)

> Production orders in Business Central manufacturing: statuses as commitment levels, creating an order from production BOM, routing and capacity setup, checking item availability by BOM level, and posting the production journal on a released order. Part of a Manufacturing Foundations series.

[Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0) · Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (YouTube) · 2026-09-08 · 4:45 · tier official · reviewed (checked by Opus)

## Overview

This five-minute video from the Manufacturing Foundations series walks through the life cycle of a production order. It starts with the statuses (simulated, planned, firm planned, released, finished) and shows how an order is created and refreshed from master data.

It then looks at the Components, Routing and Statistics functions, uses item availability by BOM level on a firm planned order, and ends on a released order where the production journal is reviewed and posted. Flushing methods and costing are left for the next video.

## Key points

- Statuses are commitment levels: simulated is a safe sandbox, planned is a production suggestion, firm planned follows approval, released goes to the shop floor, and finished closes the order for cost analysis.
- On refresh, the production BOM becomes component demand, the routing becomes operations, and the calendar and capacity setup becomes scheduled start and finish times.
- The Components, Routing and Statistics functions show required components, scheduled operations with routing link code and times, and expected costs and capacity needs before release.
- Once an order is firm planned, item availability by BOM level shows for each component how many are needed and available, how many parent items can be produced, and which component is the bottleneck.
- The production journal on a released order lists components to consume, uses the routing link code to show where each is consumed, and lets the operator adjust quantities and operational times.
- Posting the production journal consumes components, accounts for capacity usage, and produces inventory, capacity and cost postings.
- Flushing methods and costing are covered in a later video.

## Chapters

- [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=0s) Introduction and series context
- [0:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=13s) Production order statuses and commitment levels
- [0:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=49s) Creating a production order from master data
- [1:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=80s) Exploring components, routing, and statistics
- [1:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=118s) Checking availability by bill of materials level
- [2:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=161s) Released production orders and the production journal
- [3:47](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=227s) Posting the production journal and finishing the order
- [4:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=256s) Production order lifecycle and future topics

## Features

Every feature below: status not stated, demoed.

| Feature | At |
|---|---|
| Production order statuses | [0:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=26s) |
| Production order creation from master data | [0:49](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=49s) |
| Components function | [1:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=80s) |
| Routing function | [1:29](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=89s) |
| Statistics function | [1:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=101s) |
| Item availability by BOM level | [1:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=118s) |
| Production journal | [2:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=161s) |
| Production journal posting | [3:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=214s) |
| Routing link code | [2:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=177s) |

## Quotes

- [0:13](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=13s) "We are no longer modeling the production. We are asking whether we can safely release this order to production. That is the role of"
- [0:26](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=26s) "Simulated production orders are a safe sandbox. Planned production orders are production suggestions. When they are approved, they move to the firm planned production"
- [1:04](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=64s) "The production BOM becomes the component demand. The routing becomes operations. The calendar and capacity setup becomes scheduled start and finish time."
- [1:58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=118s) "Once it's firm plans, we can explore the item availability by bomb level, which will give us that release date."
- [2:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=177s) "Remember that we added routing link when we were creating the production BOM? That allows us to see where each component is consumed during"
- [3:34](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=214s) "This allows to account for the actual production. Once the operator has reviewed the production journal, he posts the production journal to effectively consume"
- [4:16](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=256s) "They give planners and supervisors a controlled life cycle. Prepare the order, check whether it can be built, release it to the floor, record"
- [4:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=267s) "Each production order allows you to monitor the costing associated. But, that will come at a later video. Next time, we will dig deeper"

## Disclaimers in the video

- [4:27](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqFpiqmXjk0&t=267s) coming-later: that will come at a later video. Next time, we will dig deeper into the flushing methods, the backbone of costing in manufacturing.