What Is Job Status in Manufacturing Scheduling?

Job status is the top-level state of a manufacturing order, from Scheduled through In Progress to Completed, that tells a planner at a glance where the work stands right now. It is the single field a planner reads to sort the shop into "not started," "running," and "done," plus the exceptions that need attention.

This entry defines job status and shows how it reads inside EDGEBIC by User Solutions. For the wider index of terms, see the manufacturing glossary; for the record every status is attached to, see what is a manufacturing order; and for how the history behind a status is recorded, see what is a schedule change log.

How it works

Job status is stored on the manufacturing order and advances as real events happen. The core progression is three states. A job is Scheduled when a capacity plan exists but no work has started. It becomes In Progress when at least one routing step records an actual start date. It reaches Completed when all steps are finished and the final step has an actual end date.

Around that spine sit the exceptions. Delayed means the scheduled end is in the past but the order is not complete. On Hold means a planner has paused the work. Cancelled means the order will not be scheduled further. And Satisfied From Stock means the demand was met entirely from on-hand finished goods, so no operations were planned and only an inventory issue was posted.

The status is not a label a planner types by hand for the running states; it follows the actuals. Logging a start moves a job to In Progress, and completing the last step moves it to Completed. That link to real events is what makes the status trustworthy on a busy floor.

A concrete example

Think of an order at a print shop. It sits in the queue as accepted work (Scheduled). The press operator loads the plates and starts the run, and the ticket flips to "on the press" (In Progress). When the last copies come off and the job is boxed, the ticket reads "done" (Completed). If the promised pickup time passes and the job still is not boxed, the counter flags it as late (Delayed) so someone chases it.

Now suppose the customer wanted 500 flyers and the shop already had 500 identical ones on the shelf from an overrun. Nobody runs the press; the shop pulls the stock, marks the ticket "filled from inventory" (Satisfied From Stock), and the demand is met without booking any press time.

How EDGEBIC uses it

In EDGEBIC, job status appears as a column in the Job View grid, so a planner can sort or filter the whole shop by where each order stands. Scheduled jobs are the flexible ones a reschedule can freely move; In Progress jobs carry preserved actuals that a reschedule respects; Completed jobs are settled history that later runs never disturb.

The exception statuses do real planning work. Delayed draws your eye to the orders whose plan has slipped past its due date, which is where triage should start. On Hold keeps a paused order out of active scheduling without deleting it. Satisfied From Stock closes the loop with inventory, so demand covered from the shelf does not book phantom capacity.

Because status follows logged reality, it stays in step with the actuals workflow and the audit trail. To see the states between started and done in more detail, read planned, in progress, and completed work explained. For the record that carries the status, see what is a manufacturing order, and for the general concept, see work order.