Alternative products can, for example, be defined if the quality of the produced end item varies. Instead of scrapping the non-conforming items you define them as alternative. The normal item and the alternative items are separated by different item codes.
By specifying item codes you define the alternative items that may be produced. If you, based on statistics or experience, know how many alternative products normally are produced along with the normal item, this can be stated in either quantity or percentage. If the assumed amount of alternative products is unknown to you, you can leave out the quantity/percentage and report the alternative quantities later on in the manufacturing order reception routine.
Note: You can also define alternative products for an item structure. See Define alternative products for an item structure.
- Select the Work with manufacturing orders menu item.
- You access Work with manufacturing order. Select the order for which you want to define alternative products and click Header.
- You access Manufacturing order maintenance, Header. Click Alt products.
- You access Manufacturing order maintenance, Alternative products. Click Add to define new alternative products for the order.
- On the Manufacturing order maintenance, Alternative products detail panel, complete the following fields:
- Alt product
- Enter the item code of the alternative item/co-product. Note: The item cannot be the same as the original item, and it must be of item type 1 (End item) or 2 (Sub-assembly).
- Warehouse
- Enter the warehouse to which the alternative item/co-product will be delivered.
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
- Enter the number of alternative items/co-products that may be produced instead of the end item. The order quantity will be adjusted with the additional quantity of the alternative product.
Click OK. Exit the routine.
See Receive alternative products from a manufacturing order for information about the reception of the alternative products.
Related topics
- About manufacturing order creation/maintenance using the manufacturing order entry routine
- About creating manufacturing orders from other routines than manufacturing order entry
- Manually create a manufacturing order
- Create a manufacturing order network
- Copy a manufacturing order
- Change a manufacturing order
- Re-schedule manufacturing orders without critical resources
- Re-schedule manufacturing orders with critical resources (finite capacity)
- Change the item structure for a manufacturing order
- Tear down a manufacturing order
- Delete a manufacturing order
- About setting up item structures for produced items
- About receiving manufactured items