@Gil_V has a great point. If you could create this part number and method in a separate Site, you could give access to that Site to only the people you wanted to (a minimum of someone to do the actual legwork of creating the PO, shipping the box out, receiving the box back, completing the job and putting it into stock; and someone in Finance). It would be a nightmare to set up.
Making a certain material(s) disappear from the SSRS report is actually a much easier problem, if that will satisfy your requirements.
If itâs for all partnums/revisions, you could use menu security & security groups to prevent access to the Method Tracker. This should flow to the context menu too (right-click open with).
Honestly, we wouldnât even print the job travelerâŠ
That sounds like a great solution, but Iâm not sure we want to go that deep for one part.
But will run it by the team.
Thanks! 
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a whileâŠ
What piece(s) are you trying to protect and how big is the risk if the data is breached? You could put your secret information into UD fields and use field security on those fields to lock normal ERP end users from seeing the information (if they donât have SQL access). If itâs super secret, and needs to flow through Epicor normally with other information, I would either create a custom subsystem or possibly do something to obfuscate the text fields.
Couldnât you call it Mics. Raw Material?
There are multiple materialsâŠ
What is the order of importance in keeping the following subsets of information secret?
- The materials needed to make the subassembly (including sub contractor supplied items)
- The materials you send to the sub contractor
- The qtyâs/ratios of the components used in the mfg by the sub contractor
- Processes done by the sub
If:
- You stocked raw materials A, B, C, D, E, F & G
- The sub provides materials X, Y & Z, and making the sub assy
- The item made by the sub was K
- And consisted of (1) A, (2) B, 1©, (5) X, (2) Y, and (3) Z
You could make a BOM with some other qtyâs of A, B, and C - but more than the real Qty per, like (3) A, (3) B & (3) C. And ship more of A, B, and C than the sub needs. You could even ship the sub some qtyâs of D, E or F. Then buy back the the leftover and unused qtyâs from the Sub.
Or make the sub operations use none of your materials, and have the sub provide them all - which theyâd purchase from you. There would still be a paper trail that one could follow, but it would be all bundled in a nice sub contracting po line. There would be âdisconnectedâ sales orders, and customer shipments to the sub.
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Thanks for your reply!!
NO subassembly,
2 and 3 are most important.
We send out the materials to be mixed by the subcontractor, who adds some of their own material.
Then we receive it back into our stock and from there use kanban jobs to decant the product into different sizes.
Iâm not sure the work is worth the hassle at this point.
Thanks for your reply.
We need Batman. He sure knew how to obfuscate a supply chain when procuring Bat-materials. Or Morgan Freeman, or the mechanic guy in the Animated Series.
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If doing nothing is a valid end result, then you have to question the person that originally asked for it.
Were they like, âIt is critical that the secret formula be kept absolutely secret ⊠Unless that would be really hard to do. And in that case ⊠never mind.â
And not even just the materials that go into his suit, gadgets, bat-mobile etcâŠ
Who installed the bat-poles from his study down to the batcave? Or the doors under the lake above the batcave, where the batplane takes off from?