Katheryn:
For regular WO think of them as a big cooking pot per work order and id.
You bring in a lot of ingredients (components) and you produce units of dinner (finished product).
The work order will keep track of what was consumed and what was completed.
Then it will try to figure out whether you used more or less ingredients than those required by the recipe (WO bill of materials), based on the total quantity you produced (and not what was ordered). It will then calculate (among other things) differences in quantity and therefore the "Material Usage Variance".
If you used less than what the "(wo required qty per) * (finished + scrapped FG)" , you will have a favorable variance; if you used more an unfavorable variance. There are other types of variances but I won't refer to them.
This calculation can only be completed when you run WO accounting close. The programs cannot and will not assume the qty reported as complete (also true for components) is the total that should be reported for that WO; that is, this could be a large WO for which we will be issuing components and receiving finished goods in several ocasions. You can report completions more than once, same for component issues.
So, imagine this big pot filled with components and suddenly you determine that some of the finished goods were not finished or in the end you do not want to build them or that maybe the WO qty will be reduced so that some components can be used to make other FG that are critical. You can do negative WO receipts (RCT-WO).
Same is true for components, let's say someone over-received a component or that in the end, someone decides that it is not 120 FG what should be produced, but only 100. Let's say you already issued components for those 120 FG. Can you "un-issue" them? YES, do a negative ISS-WO.
Same thing that applies to kitchen can apply here: As long as the component has not been transformed or changed in a way that it cannot be reduced for manufacture the same product or another FG, you can "un-issue" it and move it back to RAW inventory. If the component has been rendered "unuseable" then, the best thing is not to "un-issue" it so that it becomes part of the variance of that specific WO, planner, etc.
As long a you have not performed WO accounting close you can do almost anything you want with the contents of the pot. You can use the WO reports 16.3.3, 4 and 5 to check for huge variances on the ISS-WO vs. "require per".
I hope this helps you