Hey folks,
In a steel mill, we melt raw material scrap steel and produce steel billets for a variety of uses. Steel billets that don’t meet specifications for length, grade, etc. or aren’t usable for another purpose are returned to the raw material scrap bin for melting in a new batch. This type of scrap is called Cut Billets because the billets are cut up and loaded into a rail car.
We have a custom process completing and receiving prime and alternate grade billets, but a process for the scrapped billets going back into raw material scrap is pending.
Issue:
• We need to calculate and process scrapped billets into a Cut Billets raw materials part.
• Our prime and alternate grade manufactured billets are in a UOM of EACH, so the job UOM is in EACH.
• The Cut Billets part UOM is in LB, not EACH, so we can’t just add a coparts line on the job to complete to WIP and then receive to stock.
• Items valued in standard cost, but a pound of cut billet needs to have the last/average costs maintained.
• Billet material to return to raw material scrap is kept in “Scrap Feet,” in which a foot of scrap weighs 84 pounds.
Solution?:
• Create a new part, something like Temp Scrap Billet with a UOM of EACH.
• In the existing custom form, when we click the Complete Billets to WIP (report quantity) button, also complete a number of Temp Scrap Billets (Scrap Feet / 50). Eaches are in integers, so this would round up if less than 1 or round normally if greater than 1.
• When we click the Receive Billets To Stock (job receipt to inventory) button:
• Receive Temp Scrap Billet to stock
• Transfer Temp Scrap Billet (each) to Cut Billet (lbs). (via some method)
Question:
Any experience with this approach out there? I could create and process a job to issue x Temp Scrap Billets for y pounds of Cut Billets, but this seems like a long way around.
Thanks,
Joe