Gene
Correct, the MO assumes all material comes from the warehouse for the
finished item.
1 solution and 1 work around.
Solutions: Intersite Logistics is a XA (MAPICS) application designed to
resolve just this issue.
Work around: Split your bills such that the Mexico WIP is complete to an
item level. Then this can be interplant shipped to Boise. Then a separate
bill for the wip in Boise with the Mexican WIP production item as one of the
components. This appears to cause some extra steps, but in reality someone
is doing these steps offline now anyway. Also, with R7.8 you have the
ability to automate the transfer between the warehouses have an "in transit"
location to answer the question "where is it now?".
Kevin Fox
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I have a question for the group about multiple warehouses.
We are a job shop with two locations. One is in Boise, Idaho and the
other is in Mexico. We carry inventory in both of these locations and are
in the process of separating this inventory into its own warehouse.
Right now the inventory is combined. Warehouse #1 is in Idaho and Warehouse
#2 is in Mexico. We have some part numbers that need to be built in Mexico
and then sent to our Boise location to be finished and vice versa. I would
like to use the warehouse number as an indicator to where the inventory is
supposed to go, but I have some problems.
1) Is there any way on a BOM to put a warehouse number on where the
material is going to be used from? For example, we have one process that
starts in Boise and then is sent to Mexico to be finished. The only
materials used are at the Boise facility and the WIP then gets sent down to
Mexico to be completed. The problem is when we create a Manufacturing order
for warehouse #2, the BOM says all the material is going to be used from
warehouse #2, when in reality it is going to be used from warehouse #1. I
know you can change this BOM at the M0 level, but I was hoping that someone
had a fix for this at the routing level.
2) We are entering are orders in COM to ship from the preferred
warehouse based on a set of rules. As per my previous question, when we
have WIP being sent from Mexico to Idaho, the customer order has been
entered to ship from warehouse #1, but will be processed in Warehouse #2 and
then sent to warehouse #1 to be completed. I enter the manufacturing order
to warehouse #1 and change the components on the BOM to warehouse #2 which
works fine except that MRP seems to only recognize the warehouse number on
the header and not the BOM level. Is this correct? Is there anything that
can be done to fix this?
We currently are running PDM in an XA environment, release 7.7.
Any feedback on this is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Gene
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