Backflushed Location Headaches

["David A Parnin" <daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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