Hi,
Maybe someone has already addressed our issue, I hope.
We manufacture farm equipment. A finished piece (a "whole good"), consists of lots of subassemblies--sometimes 100 or more. But at the top level, the bill of materials is likely to be 8-12 items long. One of these common components is a "Gauge Wheel."
Sometimes we want to process a whole order on one job traveler. That is, all assemblies appear on the traveler, so we will want to set manufactured items as "Pull As Assembly" on the method.
But other times we sell those subassemblies as parts. Take the Gauge Wheel part. We try to keep the components in stock, but not the Gauge Wheel part itself, because there are several varieties of them that use mostly common components.
So if we want to sell a set of Gauge Wheels, we'd like to do a Kanban receipt and pull the components off the shelf. If we want to make the whole thing, we'd like Epicor to reflect the manufacturing process down to the raw materials.
(We have some key items set up as sales kits. This works okay if we remember to use the kitted part number at order time, but it requires us to duplicate part numbers and MOMs. It's easy to miss one when a part changes.)
When I try a Kanban receipt on one of these parts, it complains when "Pull as Assembly" is marked. If I run a quick job on a part with the components marked "View" or "Plan," the manufactured subcomponents aren't brought in as assemblies.
Is it possible to do it either way, depending on circumstance? Could I somehow force the Kanban receipt to treat subcomponents as materials?
Thanks,
Joe
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Joe D. Trent
Bigham Ag Equipment