What is Work Date?
Work Date
The factory date on which production output is to be attributed.
What it means
Working days may differ from calendar dates. Since the night shift works past midnight, one group's production output is divided into two days according to the calendar.
So, usually the day they start working is designated as the group's work day. Even something created at 2 a.m. becomes the production output of the previous day.
At the pen factory
The 40 pens made by the night shift at 2 a.m. on November 21st are put into production output on November 20th.
Why it matters
If you do not decide in advance, anything made in the early morning will be scheduled for the next day, and the production output for each day will be different.