RE: Backflushed Location Headaches

Hi Dave,

We're on 405CD, very similar to what you're running. I have a couple of
questions: What warehouse are your FG item shop orders issued to? The
warehouse the shop order is "cut" to will be the warehouse location the
components are allocated to for later backflush and it has precedence
over any item master, facility or system parameter default.

My next question is To what warehouse is the kitted item being issued? 

Paul

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On Behalf Of David A Parnin
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 3:24 PM
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Subject: Backflushed Location Headaches


Greetings everyone,

I've got a situation where one of our facilities is starting to make
"kits" that consist of two finished good parts.  The two finished good
parts will also continue to be stocked and sold as individual items.
When these two parts are produced their production is posted to the FG
location for the warehouse and their components are backflushed from the
WIP location.  When the kit item is produced its component finished good
parts are getting backflushed from the WIP location instead of the FG
location.  This requires a corresponding transfer from FG to WIP to
correct the inventory balances in both locations.  Another bit of
information is that shop orders are downloaded from BPCS to a PC-based
production reporting/barcode labeling/shipping system and then uploaded
back to BPCS.  They are batch posted through JIT (JIT500?), I believe.

I've tried setting the override location in JIT110 to be FG.  There are
two operations for the kit--"finish" and "report".  I've copied the
workcenters and changed the new workcenter "from" and "to" location
values to both be "FG".  The routing for the kit item was then changed
to use the new workcenters.  Still, when I've tested posting
transactions with JIT600 it backflushes the kit components from WIP.
Can this be set up?  Is there a program fix that we are missing?  Am I
crazy?  (I feel like I'm going
crazy!)

We are on 4.0.2 that was modified for Y2K by 3rd party software long
before I started working here.  Thanks in advance for any advice and
suggestions.

Dave Parnin
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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