I currently have a part I would like to release to be manufactured to be held in our inventory until needed by a job.
The part is a modified purchased part. When the modified purchased part is demanded, a job is created to ‘track’ the process of the purchased part being modified (sending the part out to a shop to be modified).
Here is my question, the part that needs to be modified, simply the purchased part, needs to be ‘issued’ manually to the job for its inventory levels to be adjusted accordingly (and more ordered if needed as well). Is ‘auto consume stock’ my best option to see the purchased parts automatically consumed instead of manually going into the job and issuing the purchased part?
Auto Consume Stock works with Pull As Assembly on the Method. That will not do what you are asking.
If you want to “auto” issue materials, you would want to mark the part as backflush. I personally do not recommend doing backflush as it only leads to problems if you do not have the guardrails in place to manage it.
I too feel that Backflushing the purchased component is a good solution. If the modification isn’t too involved, I would go so far as to say that you could transact it by Kanban Receipt. Kanban jobs are carried out as defined in the MoM. To the best of my knowledge, it doesn’t allow for data collection (labor). Both the labor and material would be backflushed. One consideration is, for example, if one of the components was scrapped in the manufacturing process, one couldn’t just issue an extra component to the Kanban job as you can in a standard job. (If the demand was for 6 of the modified purchase part, and one was scrapped, my suggestion is to perform a Kanban Receipt for 7 pieces of the modified part, and scrap one of the finished parts.)
As for stocking, I would recommend stocking at the modified part level, and let that drive demand for the purchased part, assuming that the purchased component isn’t used elsewhere as is.