We currently have a small assembly (3 parts, one is serial number tracked). After these parts are together, they end up finding out the one serial number tracked part is bad and they need to replace it. Is there a correct process in Epicor to return the parts from the assembly? In my head it would make sense to create a job to break it down, or use a process like “Return Assembly” (I believe I read this just returns the whole assembly and does not break it down)
In E-10 you can actually assign serial numbers at the end of a job.
EX: You issue 2 serialized parts at OP 40
You perform a test in Op 50… al is well!
You add another serialized item in OP 60
Testing in OP 70 blows-out one item from OP 40
Issue a new item to OP 40… re-work…everything goes great!
OP 90 Final Inspection…
At this point, management of the serialized parts occurs.
Bad-part goes to scrap… from job.
Other parts are on JOB w/ aligned serial # .
How are you set-up?
Yeah I believe they have one job to assemble the first 3 parts. Put it on a shelf till needed and then another job calls for adding the rest of the parts. There add the parts in the second job do testing and realize it had a problem from the begging.
Test and Failure of serialized parts can be a pain!
Especially when item is shelved, then tested!
Process now A) Let job #1 be as is…
When job 2 fails a serialized part…
the failed part was issued on JOB 1 with serial # reference, so I presume EPICOR restricts returning a part to inventory, only if the part and serial # was issued to that job.
Prior to end-of-job serialization, on V-8 we did this… a bit hokey, but it worked. Use of a phantom PART.
Our experience.
We had been dealing with issuing part # wz-123-xx which was serialized. Same prob-as-U… it failed, later!
HUMN… So we came up with part wz-123-xx-plate (which wasn’t a real part, just the plate on the part). This part had NO-COST!
We changed the MOM from needing wz-123-xx, to needing wz-123-xx-plate.
On the second JOB(s) we added the serialized part to the last-operation (inspection/package) which was after testing. Any failed unit was pulled and replaced during testing, then the serial number of good-components was entered in the OP 90 matl-issue.
Like I said… HOKEY! But we had 8-10 serialized parts that cud fail, and burn-out other parts.
Now, the ‘plate-part’ was not on a PO! the real part was on the PO.
when the real-part was received, subsequent inv-adj of the ‘plate’ part.
Fortunately for us, we keep the min-qty high on the serialized parts and purchasing managed the details!
Quite absurb… but until a future release lets U swap-out a failed serialized component, don’t know what you can do!
Yea, after searching and finding no clear answers I was afraid there was not a clean cut way of doing this. Thanks for the info, give me at least a nice starting point.