Claude,
the answers to your your two questions are correlated and so my guess is
that you are very close to understand the big picture here (this part of
the system is really very complex) :-)
By definition one production run will only consider the routing and
components of just ONE level; however you can do what you need using the
WIP products:
1) set the product type of the sub-assembly products as WIP
2) when the production run is created for the top (finished) product the
system will automatically create one production run for each of the wip
products and it will associate all the production runs with
mandatory/dependent relations
3) then you have to complete the wip production runs (mandatory) before
you can run the production run for the top product
4) the units produced by the wip production runs are not stored in
inventory but immediately 'consumed' by the top level production run
However the bad news is that all this stuff will not run when you
manually create a production run; you have to run them using the
shipment plan features:
1) create a sales order for the finished product
2) create an empty shipment and, using the "shipment plan" tab add the
order item to the shipment
3) set the shipment status to 'scheduled'
4) go to the manufacturing->shipment plan menu: you should see the
scheduled shipments here
5) click on your new shipment and run the "create production runs" link
That's all.
Let me know!
Jacopo
Claude Feistel wrote:
Jacopo, thanks for the help. Now I see how to use the console log to figure
this out myself.
Another question:
I see the nice "Simulate BOM" output with the BOM nested structure visible. I am using a test with three levels of sub-assembly in the BOMs. I can make any of the subassemblies individually, and stock them into inventory.
Here is the question part-A: Can a production run include both the top level BOM and it's Routing, and also include a sub-assembly BOM and its tasks without running the sub-assembly as a separate production run. I haven't figured this out. My test is not picking up parts from the sub-assembly BOM that is included in the production run.
Question part-B: how are the "Mandatory Production Runs", and "Dependent Production
Runs" used? How/where do you configure these?
Thanks,
Claude Feistel
IntegraSphere Inc.
Austin, TX
