Dear Kristen,
Some answers and questions:
- How is the supplier currently charging you for the assembly activity ? How
are you issuing orders to him ? Are you ordering the components or the
assembled product ?
- In case you order the assembled product why do you want to trace the
components, let the supplier worry about relating the components to the
specific order ? Perhaps he could request from you a planned demand for a
period of time. The latter you could generate by sending him the quantities
you expect to ship the coming period.
If you are on release 8.6 you could use Enterprise Material Transfer to
create a purchase order automatically for the sales order line item. And
when you are using EDI, you can communicate the configuration structure by
means of the ORDER message. If not you can print the configuration on the
purchase order.
- Are you adding any value to the assembly process, beside performing the
shipment ?
For example: inspection of the system or final assembly testing . It could
also be, you have subcontracted the production of the system, but still need
to test whether the assembled system works with software you deliver.
If you are not adding any value you could issue the purchased components
from inventory upon sales order shipment and then, indeed, it is a matter of
relating the purchase order to the sales order demand.
- If you still want to use subcontracting, you could set it up as follows:
1. set up a department and work center for the supplier, a department is not
really needed but can be handy to project the capacity of the supplier.
Remember the capacity in department maintenance has to be entered manually,
thus is not calculated by the system.
You should set up a work center for each supplier you are using for
subcontracting. Why ? Because later in the process flow you need to find out
which work orders are ready for being dispatched. Work Order Dispatch Report
(16.18), shows you all work orders for which the subcontract operation is
queued for processing, with the work center as selection criteria.
Make sure the work center has no machine burden, setup, labor, lbr bdn rate.
I presume you will include these cost in the subcontracted service item.
2. set up a routing (perhaps you could set up standard operations,
especially usefull if you have many identical subcontract operation and you
do not want to enter the values for subcontract lt and cost over and over).
Define a routing with a operation for the subcontracted activity. The
supplier can be referenced in the operation. Is for reference only but will
appear in some reports.
The work center is the work center from above. You can enter queue, and wait
time.
You can also enter run, setup, and move time but then you better not enter
subcontract lt, otherwise cost and lead time will be overstated.
3. do a Routing Cost Roll-Up
4. Assign the routing code to your configured item, in Item Planning
Maintenance or the Item Site Planning Maintenance. Not necessary if the
routing code is the same as the configured item code.
5. Upon releasing your Final Assembly work order from 8.13 a final assembly
work order will be created status exploded, thus with a fixed routing which
will include your subcontracted operation.
6. work order release print will release your work order. If the
subcontracted operation is the first step in the routing the operation will
be Queued (operation = yes, in 16.6).
7. work order dispatch report to find out which work orders are ready for
dispatching
8. purchase order maintenance, order line item type = S
Now you could use a specially created subcontract item and in case the
supplier wants to imburse you for the components he adds during the assembly
process, assign the cost of these components and the work hours of the
supplier to this item.
Or you could also use the configured item itself.
Reference the work order number, id and operation in the frame that pops up.
9. purchase order receipt (5.13.1)
Debits WIP. If it works. Cause in my version it debits Cost of Production,
what ever I try I can not manage to debit WIP. Wondering whether it has
something to do with the configured item. If anyone knows ?
kind regards,
Danny Gaethofs
Origin QAD NL
