@timshuwy Job Closing caught an issue where we under issued a material. In reviewing the job we found the part was configured to backflush at operation 30 which was completed, but the part was not issued(see screenshots below). It looks like we have plenty of this part in stock, so we are a bit stumped as to why it didn’t backflush. I looked in Part Transaction history for any transactions related to the job and there were none.
Is there somewhere we can look to understand why a part didn’t backflush, or can you help us to understand what scenarios may have caused this?
Subcontract will not backflush parts. Why? I have no idea, it seems kind of arbitrary other than the fact that the operation is actually completed by a shipping receipt from the subcontract PO, and not a labor operation.
If it’s not supposed to be a subcontract operation, then you have to remove and re-add as a non subcon operation. You can’t just change it.
It seems to me that there is a gap here… SOMEONE at your facility must go and gather the items that will be shipped to the supplier before shipping… this would normally be done at an operation PRIOR to the sub-contract work. Otherwise, the supplier would not have all the material available. SO… either create an operation that is a kitting operation that is executed just prior, or associate the materials with the prior operation.
Thanks! We do have a pick operation and I’m not sure why the part was associated to backflush with the subcontract operation and not the pick operation. I didn’t think this was the source of our problem, thanks so much!!!
Looks like you solved it while I was typing anyhow, but I was going to agree with @timshuwy
I concur. We use both at times.
They way I see it is maybe a bit twisted, but the subcontractor is executing an external process. Material can only change hands when it leaves or is received - not at some arbitrary place/time when the subcontractor executes their process, unless there’s some specific contract that somehow gives an action like cutting a seal as a proxy for receiving. The fact that we use an umbrella operation that encompasses all of the above doesn’t change that.
Then, you can only consume material that belongs to you, as it removes it from your onhand inventory.
So it seems reasonable to me that we can’t issue material while the material is outside of our location at a subcontractor.
Maybe that’s “figures don’t lie but liars figure” but that’s how I explain it to the planners!
