Production reported a problem in that we have a nonstock part on a BOM, and the nonstock part is not marked as pull as assembly. The result was production was told to pick a part we don’t stock and no materials/operations were listed on the job…
I’m going to create a query to proactively identify other part setup “problems” like this, but it has me scratching my head… What is the intent of such a feature? Maybe understanding how others use such a scenario maybe I’ll realize how it might help us in certain situations…
In my past epicor life, we had a BAQ/dashboard that specifically looked for that condition so that we could find that case whenever something got switched from stock to non-stock or vice versa. We as manufacturing engineers would watch the dashboard and go fix anything (the parent parts) that had that problem. We also further automated it by check for stock/non-stock and having a BPM fix the check boxes on check out, so all that we actually had to do was check out the part and check it back in, and the BPM fixed it. A final improvement was a checkbox on the first query that would check out the part upon checking the box, so basically we just checked the box on anything that showed up, then when into engineering workbench and did group, check-in all. We could/should have gone farther, but I never got around to it.