The purpose of this program is to maintain a material line for a manufacturing order.
- Item
- Warehouse
- Status
- The code indicates the status of the manufacturing order.
- Variant
- Order number
- Plan start
- Plan compl
- Sequence number
- Item
- The code that identifies the component item.
- Description
- Enter the item description for fictitious item. You can only enter the description for a fictitious item in this field. For non-fictitious item, this field displays the description from the Item file.
- Warehouse
- The warehouse from which the component will be issued.
If the STKOWNER (Stock Ownership) function is activated in the Function control file, the warehouse entered must be classified as a normal or trade (logical) warehouse (i.e. the Warehouse characteristic flag in Work with warehouses must be set to 1 (normal) or 2 (trade). See About the stock ownership functionality for more information.
- Quantity
- The needed/reserved quantity in warehouse unit.
- Set-up quantity
- The fixed set-up quantity for materials. This set-up quantity can be deemed as an estimated reservation that you plan on consuming for the machine set-up before real production, and is independent of the order’s quantity. When manufacturing orders are entered, the components required quantity is calculated as follows: order quantity x component quantity + fixed set-up quantity.
Example:
Fixed set-up quantity = 10
Order quantity = 5
Component quantity = 1
Component required quantity = 15
- Quantity mtrl unit
- The required quantity in component unit.
- Planned issue date
- The date indicates when the item’s material reservation is planned to be issued.
- Pick in operation
- Optional entry. Enter the operation number. If this field is completed, the component(s) is reserved for production purposes for the starting time of this operation.
If this field is left blank, the component(s) will be reserved according to what is defined in Used in operation.
If both the Pick in operation and Used in operation fields are left blank, the component(s) will be reserved according to the manufacturing order’s start date.
- Used in operation
- Optional entry. Enter the operation number for the production personnel when component(s) should be used in the production process.
If an operation number has been entered in the Pick in operation field, then the reservation of the component(s) will be made according to the calculated planned issue date for the Pick in operation; else the component(s) will be reserved according to the operation number entered in this Used in operation field.If both the Pick in operation and Used in operation fields are left blank, the component(s) will be reserved according the manufacturing order’s start date.
- Position number
- The position number that is defined for the component item can be used in the shop floor printout to print the manufacturing order bill of material in position number order.
- Drawing number
- Floor stock code
- Mandatory entry. The floor stock code indicates if material connected to manufacturing orders will be backflushed or not.
- Re-usable
- This field is only displayed if Re-usable material is set to YES in the MFG control file. If this field is set to YES it denotes that the component is re-usable if scrapped quantity is reported. A proposal is displayed during operation reporting and the user can make a decision whether the item should be put to stock or not.
- Direct purchase
- This field is only displayed if Direct pur to m-order is set to YES in the MFG control file and Direct/delayed pur creation is defined as 1 or 2. If this field is set to YES it denotes that the purchase order should be created and linked to the manufacturing order material as transit order.
- Supplier
- This field is only displayed if Direct pur to m-order is set to YES in the MFG control file and Direct/delayed pur creation is defined as 1 or 2. Enter the complete supplier number or alias.
- Purchase price
- This field is only displayed if Direct pur to m-order is set to YES in the MFG control file and Direct/delayed pur creation is defined as 1 or 2. Enter the purchase price in stock unit. You can only enter value for this field when a supplier has been entered.
- Price unit
- This field is only displayed if Direct pur to m-order is set to YES in the MFG control file, Direct/delayed pur creation is defined as 1 or 2, and the PRCUNIT (Price unit handling) function is activated in the Function control file. (See About price unit handling for more information). Enter the purchase price unit for the purchase price. You can only enter a value for this field when a purchase price has been entered.
- Component category
- This field can be used for search in an enquiry function. A special batch program, Component category enq file creation, must be run before enquiries can be made on the category fields.