Operation Production Qty UOM?

Epicor ERP 10
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I’ve been going over somethings and in our system (we are a print shop) we have our material in sheets. This always rounds up (as expected and wanted) as you can’t print on .21 sheets. However, in the Operation, there doesn’t seem to be any UOM for the Prod Qty. In our case, this Prod Qty in certain operations translates to Material Qty. So, am I correct that there isn’t an UOM for this number?

Edit: After reviewing, I am thinking after Epicor does its calculation, it defaults to EA.

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The online help has a lot of info for this field (much more than you usually get)

Qty/Parent

Specifies the operation quantity required to make one base unit of the parent assembly part. The default value is 1. This value is multiplied by the assembly production quantity to calculate the operation Production Qty.

Operation Production Quantity = Qty/Parent x Assembly Production Quantity

The Qty/Parent is 1 for many operations. If you do not have assemblies, this is the quantity required to manufacture 1 of the end part. It can be greater than 1 if you work with multiple assemblies.

The quantity (whole, or fractional with decimals) that can be entered in this field, and the number of allowed decimal places, is dependent on the setting of the Allow Decimals and Decimals fields in UOM Maintenance for the selected UOM code.

After entering the price, select the UOM code that represents the unit of measure (for example, Each, Case, Cubic Centimeters) in which the quantity is being expressed. The default is the base UOM code defined for the job material part in the Primary UOMs - Inventory field in Part Maintenance.

Example: If you are making a car with 4 doors, the operations involved with making the doors would have a Qty/Parent of 4, since there are 4 doors for each car.

Note also that you can enter 0 (zero) quantity for a material. Do this if you need to add a reference material to the BOM that may or may not be used during the manufacturing process. You can also do this if you need to change a material on a BOM; set the original material’s Qty/Parent to 0 and add a new material.

If Qty/Parent is equal to 0:

  • You can issue inventory to this material if the production worker uses it, using either Issue Material or Mass Issue, by manually entering the amount used.
  • Materials with a value of 0 in the Qty/Parent field are depicted on a tree field with a special icon. If no materials are issued, the icon is blue. If materials have been issued, the icon is green.
  • It is skipped in backflush and no material is issued for it.
  • In Job Actual Costing and Costing Workbench, Estimated Costs uses 0.00.

Note: If you select Pull as Assembly or Plan as Assembly, you cannot enter a zero quantity material.