alternate bom or router

gseaquest

gseaquest

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Hello, I am quite new to mfg pro and wanted some insight. I have read other similar post but still am not clear. So here we go.
-I have item A which is an assembly for customer 1. For customer 2 we have another item B which is identical to item A. Someone setup item B with a separate bom code B with item A as a child at qty 1 ea. Here is the problem. I stock a certain finished item A1 that we manufacture as a lower level component of item A. For customer 1 it requires a certain level of inspection that is set as an operation in the router. For item B that same sub component requires a different level of inspection which is a different operation.

Product Structure comparrison:

Customer 1 Customer2
A B
1.A1 1.A
2.Raw Mat'l 2.A1-Alternate
3.A1
4.Raw Mat'l
Note: A1-Alternate has alternate router from A1 so that it can be routed for req'd inspection.

Is this a work around in the system?
If so can it cause serious problems?
How should this be setup so that when Item A is in Item B, Item A1 get the required operation and when item A is not in B, item A1 gets routed as required.

Planning is having trouble in the following ways. Variance in lead time for finished part in stock vs. not in stock. A1 not getting proper inspection when A is used in B. MPS not correct

Im Open!
 
if for the same assembly, you have two alternate routings (for the different inspection procedures)
you have to specify explicitly in the work order, which routing to use.
for example, if your assembly A has two different inspection procedures
for customer 1, create routing A.1 (and also corresponding Item Specification)
and for customer 2, create routing A.2 (and corresponding Item Specification)
now, in work order for customer 1 specify routing code A.1
and in the work order for customer 2, specify A.2
this way when you report Test Results, the system knows which routing to use
 
How will my planner know that this piece of the assembly has an alternate router. This is what I though should be done. However planning insist that an alternate bom and alternate router be setup. C

to make things a more complicated this part is inserted into the product structure of another part so that customer 2's part number can be used.

Could you tell me more about item specifications. Right now when we setup a part ie. fasteners, the purchasing department used the part description to see if they can figure out which fastener to buy. Can I setup Item specifications in pro?
 
The part that has different inspection requirements is a piece of the assembly. The assembly is the sold as A and when it is sold to customer 1. it is sold as item b (ie customers part no.) and the assembly A is place in the product structure of item b. The part is much lower in the product structure that the parent assembly.
 
1st, when you post to this forum, specifiy the version of MfgPro you are using
there were possible changes between different versions.

2nd, i'n not clear about your problem, if i get it right, you say you have
an assembly, which for one customer is sold as top assembly, and for another customer
as a sub-assembly, so your planner, e.g: may use the description of the top assembly
to decide which of the two alternate routings to use (specify in the WO)

for the Item Specification & Quality Module, i suggest you read the manual
but in short: for each Item+Routing, you can setup a series of specifications
then, you can use the Specifications either for PO received items (purchased items)
or the items you manufacture (manufactured finished assemblys)
so if you have two alternate routings for same assembly, you can setup different
specifications also
 
I didn't get the version. Maybe this will help though. It's old. What we have is a finished part that for one assembly it is stocked on the shelf and picked when we have a po for that assembly. For another assembly the same part is not considered incomplete and lacks one operation. So here is what we have done. We created a bom code to be used as an alternate. Inserted the part into it and gave a it a router for the missing op. We then inserted the part again into the top level. So 13.6 shows two of these. One that can be picked and inspected and one that can be manufactured from the raw material. the picked one is setup as an alternate.
 
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