ulrich.fuchs
7th September 2008, 10:52
Hi folks,
I'm looking for a clever way to handle a warehouse of metal (or, in my case, wooden) plates. I want to be able to do (manual) material handling in pieces (so, take out "1/2 plate" from warehouse, and use it for two(!) production orders). So the stock unit should be "plate". However, to have a proper material costs estimation, I want the item unit to be m², and I want the material on the production order itself booked according to the quanitity of the respective BOMs.
If I do backflushing, I have my production orders fine, but the stock of the plates will end up in m² then (and I will have to manually deal with the scrap, to have a precise stock quantity), and I will have no information any longer, how these total m² are split up in half plates/total plates and so on, which is important for doing the purchase.
If I'd mark the plates as pick stock (is this the correct english label? "Greifvorrat" in german), I could do the material handling as I want (using adjustment orders), however this material doesn't show up in the estimated and actual costs of the production order and items. However, these plates make up nearly 100% of the material costs so I need to have those costs.
What I'm looking for is a way to have some sort of backflushing on the production order without having actual material movements in the warehouse, so I can do this manually and *decoupled* from actual production orders. I'm pretty sure that there is nothing in the standard here, but still I'd like to heare about how others are handling their stock of plates.
Rgds,
Uli
I'm looking for a clever way to handle a warehouse of metal (or, in my case, wooden) plates. I want to be able to do (manual) material handling in pieces (so, take out "1/2 plate" from warehouse, and use it for two(!) production orders). So the stock unit should be "plate". However, to have a proper material costs estimation, I want the item unit to be m², and I want the material on the production order itself booked according to the quanitity of the respective BOMs.
If I do backflushing, I have my production orders fine, but the stock of the plates will end up in m² then (and I will have to manually deal with the scrap, to have a precise stock quantity), and I will have no information any longer, how these total m² are split up in half plates/total plates and so on, which is important for doing the purchase.
If I'd mark the plates as pick stock (is this the correct english label? "Greifvorrat" in german), I could do the material handling as I want (using adjustment orders), however this material doesn't show up in the estimated and actual costs of the production order and items. However, these plates make up nearly 100% of the material costs so I need to have those costs.
What I'm looking for is a way to have some sort of backflushing on the production order without having actual material movements in the warehouse, so I can do this manually and *decoupled* from actual production orders. I'm pretty sure that there is nothing in the standard here, but still I'd like to heare about how others are handling their stock of plates.
Rgds,
Uli