Dimensional Tracking & production

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Troy:

For us about 10 part length is scrap (maybe)

BW


Message: 20
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 14:12:51 -0800
From: "Troy Funte" <tfunte@...>
Subject: Re: Dimensional Tracking & production

So, you could sell the 20 foot pieces then as well, or do you consider it
scrap? If you can sell the 20 ft. pieces, what size would you consider
scrap?
For us scrap would be below 10 inches (maybe)



BW



Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics

----- Original Message -----
From: "Babette Welch" <bwelch@...>
To: <vantage@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 12:07 AM
Subject: [Vantage] Dimensional Tracking & production


> Hope someone can help with this.
>
> We have a product that we stock in 50 foot lengths, but sell in what ever
> length the customer wants.
> We take the 50 foot length off the shelf and cut it to size.
> How do we track the inventory and material costs?
>
> If we take two 50 foot pieces and cut 30 feet off each and sell it we now
> have 40 feet left.
> The problem is that it is two 20 feet pieces not one 40 foot piece.
> Is there an easy way to track this?
> We have looked at 'dimensional tracking' yet are concerned because we
could
> cut any length from the original 50 foot length.
> How do we track all the small pieces that could result from this process?
>
> Is anyone using 'dimensional tracking'?
> Does it work for you?
>
>
> BW

=============================================
Babette Welch
MIS Director
Argonics
1110 Wright
Marquette MI 49855
906.226.9747 ext 235
906.228.0951 fax
2
Hope someone can help with this.

We have a product that we stock in 50 foot lengths, but sell in what ever
length the customer wants.
We take the 50 foot length off the shelf and cut it to size.
How do we track the inventory and material costs?

If we take two 50 foot pieces and cut 30 feet off each and sell it we now
have 40 feet left.
The problem is that it is two 20 feet pieces not one 40 foot piece.
Is there an easy way to track this?
We have looked at 'dimensional tracking' yet are concerned because we could
cut any length from the original 50 foot length.
How do we track all the small pieces that could result from this process?

Is anyone using 'dimensional tracking'?
Does it work for you?


BW

=============================================
Babette Welch
MIS Director
Argonics
1110 Wright
Marquette MI 49855
906.226.9747 ext 235
906.228.0951 fax
3
Babette,

We have a situation very similar to yours and dimensional tracking works
great. We sell stainless steel tubes that are produced in various lengths
(not always the same length each run) and we sell whatever length the
customer wants rounded to 1/8 inch. That can be tricky because Vantage
works in metrics (hundredths of an inch).

The dimension conversion factor is the thing you have to watch because if
the person entering that factor doesn't get it right, your whole inventory
gets messed up.

Our inventory unit of measure is always one inch for everything. Inventory
shows how many inches of a given part we have in stock. Sales people have
to look at the dimension screen to see how many of what length we have in
stock. Also, by making everything a one-inch u/m, the formula for the
conversion factor is always 1 divided by the length of that piece; simple to
remember, less likely to get screwed up.

======================
Steve Sanders
Delta Centrifugal Corp


-----Original Message-----
From: Babette Welch [mailto:bwelch@...]
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 2:07 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Dimensional Tracking & production


Hope someone can help with this.

We have a product that we stock in 50 foot lengths, but sell in what ever
length the customer wants.
We take the 50 foot length off the shelf and cut it to size.
How do we track the inventory and material costs?

If we take two 50 foot pieces and cut 30 feet off each and sell it we now
have 40 feet left.
The problem is that it is two 20 feet pieces not one 40 foot piece.
Is there an easy way to track this?
We have looked at 'dimensional tracking' yet are concerned because we could
cut any length from the original 50 foot length.
How do we track all the small pieces that could result from this process?

Is anyone using 'dimensional tracking'?
Does it work for you?


BW

=============================================
Babette Welch
MIS Director
Argonics
1110 Wright
Marquette MI 49855
906.226.9747 ext 235
906.228.0951 fax



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We are using it as well, after the learning curve was over ... it works great here too .. we have sheets of alum. that we shear into various sizes to make different parts and we keep some off fall and pitch some ... some part numbers we have as many as 7 or 8 different dimensions .... just have to watch the conversion factors and be careful at inventory as to what is reported
Stephanie
Steve Sanders <ssanders@...> wrote: Babette,

We have a situation very similar to yours and dimensional tracking works
great. We sell stainless steel tubes that are produced in various lengths
(not always the same length each run) and we sell whatever length the
customer wants rounded to 1/8 inch. That can be tricky because Vantage
works in metrics (hundredths of an inch).

The dimension conversion factor is the thing you have to watch because if
the person entering that factor doesn't get it right, your whole inventory
gets messed up.

Our inventory unit of measure is always one inch for everything. Inventory
shows how many inches of a given part we have in stock. Sales people have
to look at the dimension screen to see how many of what length we have in
stock. Also, by making everything a one-inch u/m, the formula for the
conversion factor is always 1 divided by the length of that piece; simple to
remember, less likely to get screwed up.

======================
Steve Sanders
Delta Centrifugal Corp


-----Original Message-----
From: Babette Welch [mailto:bwelch@...]
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 2:07 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Dimensional Tracking & production


Hope someone can help with this.

We have a product that we stock in 50 foot lengths, but sell in what ever
length the customer wants.
We take the 50 foot length off the shelf and cut it to size.
How do we track the inventory and material costs?

If we take two 50 foot pieces and cut 30 feet off each and sell it we now
have 40 feet left.
The problem is that it is two 20 feet pieces not one 40 foot piece.
Is there an easy way to track this?
We have looked at 'dimensional tracking' yet are concerned because we could
cut any length from the original 50 foot length.
How do we track all the small pieces that could result from this process?

Is anyone using 'dimensional tracking'?
Does it work for you?


BW

=============================================
Babette Welch
MIS Director
Argonics
1110 Wright
Marquette MI 49855
906.226.9747 ext 235
906.228.0951 fax



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So, you could sell the 20 foot pieces then as well, or do you consider it
scrap? If you can sell the 20 ft. pieces, what size would you consider
scrap?

Troy Funte
Liberty Electronics

----- Original Message -----
From: "Babette Welch" <bwelch@...>
To: <vantage@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 12:07 AM
Subject: [Vantage] Dimensional Tracking & production


> Hope someone can help with this.
>
> We have a product that we stock in 50 foot lengths, but sell in what ever
> length the customer wants.
> We take the 50 foot length off the shelf and cut it to size.
> How do we track the inventory and material costs?
>
> If we take two 50 foot pieces and cut 30 feet off each and sell it we now
> have 40 feet left.
> The problem is that it is two 20 feet pieces not one 40 foot piece.
> Is there an easy way to track this?
> We have looked at 'dimensional tracking' yet are concerned because we
could
> cut any length from the original 50 foot length.
> How do we track all the small pieces that could result from this process?
>
> Is anyone using 'dimensional tracking'?
> Does it work for you?
>
>
> BW
>
> =============================================
> Babette Welch
> MIS Director
> Argonics
> 1110 Wright
> Marquette MI 49855
> 906.226.9747 ext 235
> 906.228.0951 fax
>
>
>
> Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must
have already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
> (1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder and
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>
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>
>
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Steve,

If I'm reading this right that means you are setting up unique dimension
codes for every size you create?

As a steel service center we would, over time, be creating 100's of
different variations for some 10,000 items.

Do your receiving people have direct access to your part master file so they
can create all of the codes on the fly?

What am I missing here?

Can you respond with an example of 1 part and it's associated dimension
codes/factors?

Todd Anderson

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Sanders [mailto:ssanders@...]
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:28 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Dimensional Tracking & production


Babette,

We have a situation very similar to yours and dimensional tracking works
great. We sell stainless steel tubes that are produced in various lengths
(not always the same length each run) and we sell whatever length the
customer wants rounded to 1/8 inch. That can be tricky because Vantage
works in metrics (hundredths of an inch).

The dimension conversion factor is the thing you have to watch because if
the person entering that factor doesn't get it right, your whole inventory
gets messed up.

Our inventory unit of measure is always one inch for everything. Inventory
shows how many inches of a given part we have in stock. Sales people have
to look at the dimension screen to see how many of what length we have in
stock. Also, by making everything a one-inch u/m, the formula for the
conversion factor is always 1 divided by the length of that piece; simple to
remember, less likely to get screwed up.

======================
Steve Sanders
Delta Centrifugal Corp


-----Original Message-----
From: Babette Welch [mailto:bwelch@...]
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 2:07 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Dimensional Tracking & production


Hope someone can help with this.

We have a product that we stock in 50 foot lengths, but sell in what ever
length the customer wants.
We take the 50 foot length off the shelf and cut it to size.
How do we track the inventory and material costs?

If we take two 50 foot pieces and cut 30 feet off each and sell it we now
have 40 feet left.
The problem is that it is two 20 feet pieces not one 40 foot piece.
Is there an easy way to track this?
We have looked at 'dimensional tracking' yet are concerned because we could
cut any length from the original 50 foot length.
How do we track all the small pieces that could result from this process?

Is anyone using 'dimensional tracking'?
Does it work for you?


BW

=============================================
Babette Welch
MIS Director
Argonics
1110 Wright
Marquette MI 49855
906.226.9747 ext 235
906.228.0951 fax



Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must have
already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
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Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
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(2) To search through old msg's goto:
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