First of all I must say I'm pretty new to Baan and also to manufacturing.
Having said that, we have some items that could have different manufacturing structures, what is the best method (if any) for handling this situation in Baan ? We have found several workarounds, but since this is IMO not a strange situation at all, I was wondering how are you solving this ?

Thanks in advance.

Without more information, difficult to answer - have you looked at quantity dependant routings?

Where I said structure I meant "Bill Of Materials".

Quantities aside, the same manufactured item may have different BOMs.
A simple example would be : item A manufactured with item B+C+D, but we could have the situation where item F is a substitute of C+D.
Without more information, difficult to answer - have you looked at quantity dependant routings?

Thanks.

Then maybe Alernative Items is the way for you to go - haven't used them extensively, but I think they should fit the bill

Hi drobles,
How about using Projects (pcs). A customized item of a standard item can have a different BOM, depending on the requirement. So in all the standard would remain as A = B+C+D, while the customized variant of the same item would be A1 = B+F

sk

This could do the job. But we are not considering to implement Projects before the kick-off. Maybe in a near future.

Hi drobles,
How about using Projects (pcs). A customized item of a standard item can have a different BOM, depending on the requirement. So in all the standard would remain as A = B+C+D, while the customized variant of the same item would be A1 = B+F

sk

Where I said structure I meant "Bill Of Materials".

Quantities aside, the same manufactured item may have different BOMs.
A simple example would be : item A manufactured with item B+C+D, but we could have the situation where item F is a substitute of C+D.


Thanks.

Did you check out Unit Effectivity ? This should do the job pretty well. The draw back: The item need to be lot controlled (which is quite logical in this case).

Regards

Dieter

Did you check out Unit Effectivity ? This should do the job pretty well. The draw back: The item need to be lot controlled (which is quite logical in this case).

Regards

Dieter

Hi Dieter

Do you go through the EU process successfully? I did not. Kindly could you please give me some instructions? intergigaman@yahoo.co.uk. Thanks and regards,

Jason.