Hi Jacopo Your excellent answer to Claude's question raises a few issue I'm about to face.
I'm interested in how this discussion relates to the new Automatically produced marketing packages. Specifically: How do sub-assembly production runs relate to automatically produced marketing package production runs? Does it matter if none of the marketing package components use the routing feature? If a sub-assembly of one product is also a finished good of a different product, does it need to be defined as a WIP? Thanks Daniel On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 18:33 +0200, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: > 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 > > >
