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Viewing the Status of Shop Orders in the MES System
During the change process to analyze the impact of a change user authoring or approving a change request you may want to know the shop order status in your MES system against a specific Part or BOM.
To view the status of a shop order use the following procedure:
1. Navigate to the details page of the part of BOM for which you want to see shop order status.
2. From the Actions menu select View Shop Order Count. A list of all distribution targets specific to the MES system appears.
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This action is only available if there is at least one MES type associated with the part or BOM.
3. Select the distribution targets that you want to see shop orders for.
4. Click Go.