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Work Order

An authorisation to produce a specified quantity of an item.

Area
Manufacturing
Abbreviation
WO
Also known as
production order, job order, WO
In this area
14 terms of 257

A work order instructs production to make a given quantity by a given date, consuming components per the bill of materials and following a defined routing. It is the manufacturing equivalent of a purchase order.

It is also the cost container: materials issued, labour booked and overhead applied all attach to the work order, which is what makes actual unit cost comparable to standard.

Work Order is not just a definition here

Manufacturing runs on this vocabulary every day in AWRA OpsHub — 14 of our 257 glossary terms describe things the platform actually does.