Hi Rupert, The manufacturing processes you describe are included in standard OFBiz functionality.
But, you are mixing terminology. What you describe (cutting up a length of pipe into washers is not a discrete manufacturing process (assembling components into a product), but a process-oriented manufacturing process. Reversing the process by disassembling the product into its components is possible in discrete manufacturing, but reversing the process is not possble in process-oriented manufacturing. The best example is the the scrambled egg paradigm. You need to beat (the process) the egg (the component) to get the scrambled egg (the end product), but you cannot reverse te process to get the egg again. The same applies to your problem of the length of pipe and the washers. After having cut up the length of pipe you have the washers, but you cannot reverse the process (due to e.g. the scrap produced while cutting the washers). In order to solve your problem you have to look at what gross material you need to produce the 1000 washers. It might be so that there is a need for 10% extra for the scrap factor. Based on that information you device the bom per standand unit of quantity. With kind regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:48 PM, Rupert Howell <[email protected]>wrote: > HI All, > > I'm looking for a way to use the MRP to create a load of washers from a > length of steel pipe which is ordered in from a supplier. A piece of pipe > is cut into 1000 pieces so one productId is chopped up and 1000 items of a > different productId needs to be put into stock and a number of these > washers used further down the production chain. > > Assembling the length of pipe from 1000 washers is straight forward enough > - but I need to effectively disassemble the pipe and I cannot see if this > functionality has been implemented. Can anyone point me in the right > direction? > > Many Thanks, > > -- > Rupert Howell > > Provolve Ltd > Front Office, Deale House, 16 Lavant Street, Petersfield, GU32 3EW, UK > > t: 01730 267868 / m: 079 0968 5308 > e: [email protected] > w: http://www.provolve.com >
