RE: WIP Location/Warehouse.

Michael,

Well...it depends on how you are configured and what your goals are.  I
am assuming that your "black-hole" is a miscellaneous issue transaction
(IS).

If all you want to do is to track your inventory on the floor VS in a
parts cage, your initial idea is just what we are doing.  It will work
for you assuming that you have a controlled warehouse.  

It is a simple, yet quite effective solution.  We have a number of
inventory stocking locations for the various areas of our manufacturing
floor.  Inventory is transferred (TW) from the cage to the floor
location(s) where it is subsequently backflushed from there. 

Be careful with this method because cycle counting your cage inventory
will not identify all process errors.  Your material usage variances,
BOM inaccuracies will all be hidden in your floor locations.  Having
said that; it is very important to cycle count these locations.  Cycle
counting your floor locations isn't impossible but is challenging.

Dale Walker
Gross-Given Mfg.


-----Original Message-----
From: August, Michael [mailto:maugust@dialight.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 9:11 AM
To: mapics-l@midrange.com
Subject: WIP Location/Warehouse.

Does anyone have any experience with creating a WIP location or
warehouse.

Here is our problem we issue raw material to MO's basically into a black
hole.  We then RM Finished Goods into the same warehouse.  Our problem
is we
lose track of what may still be left in WIP.  We have been asked to come
up
with a solution that would give us a perpetual of WIP.  The idea is
simple
but I don't know how to get the system to do it.

Have a warehouse/location for WIP, transfer raw material for MO's there
then
have this warehouse/location backflushed when an MO is RM into Finished
Goods inventory.  

Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

> Regards,
> Michael August
Sr. Programmer / Analyst 
> Dialight Corporation
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