Question: Reporting Co-Part scrap?

Epicor ERP 10
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I wanted to ask how people using Co-Parts are reporting scrap out of the process of creating the co-part(s). I know that scrap quantity can be reported in MES for the operation, but how is Co-Part scrap being handled?

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You would have to enter a scrap (or nonconformance) quantity on the main MES screen… the co-parts grid only has space for completed production quantities.

If you’re using Standard cost, each completed part will get its standard cost and anything else (including scrap) will go to manufacturing variance.

If you’re using Average (or Lot Average) cost, its most likely that the “cost of scrap” will be absorbed by each of the finished pieces using whatever your cost factors are per co-part (although I’ve never actually followed that through to test).

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Ernie, how would non-conformant quantity be reported if co-parts themselves need to be scrapped? I can see reporting non-conformant quantity if a raw material part is bad, but how would you report scrap if a co-part is damaged or non-conformant? Apparently this situation is not allowing jobs to be auto-closed due to the yield not being 100%.

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That doesn’t surprise me at all… the auto-close is a pretty finicky functionality and Epicor would have no way of knowing how that piece should be handled. If you just non-conformed it out of the job to Inspection Processing, it will probably go there with the “primary” part number (the part number in JobHead.PartNum), but having the auto-close process try to do the math would probably be a nightmare. If it’s only the auto-close you’re worried about, I’d just close it manually.

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@JMyers56 What we do is take the co-parts to stock and then nonconform them from inventory. It’s the only way you can nonconform/scrap a co-part.

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Thanks @Beth!

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Beth is the Co-Part Queen!!

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I agree! Thanks everyone for responding! Beth’s been a great help in getting started with Co-Parts!

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Thanks @bboes and @JMyers56!! It’s because I have to deal with them everyday!

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Beth, we have a situation where the tool cuts both main and co-part whether we want it or not. Sometimes we just throw the co-part away as it was “free” (time and material were going to be used anyway). In that case, should I make the Material Cost Factor and Labor Cost Factor 0 for the co-part? Does that give it to me at no cost?

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I would put a 100 percent cost on the main parent part 1:0 if they let you do that. Otherwise you could do 99:1.