Re: Bill Of Material explosion

[Paul Therrien <paultherrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My post will not help you, ... but  many, many, many moons ago I worked
on MAPICS on the S38 and was tasked with writing an Indented, Costed Bil
Of Materials report. 

(We called it the ICBM). 

And whenever the job blew up there were jokes a-plenty!  :) 

Paul Therrien Andeco Software, LLC 

paultherrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

225-229-2491 

On 2017-01-13 14:20, Steve Jones wrote:

> Daryl - we use MAPICS
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Darryl Freinkel <dhfreinkel@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Steve
>
> Can you share what the application software is that you may be using?
>
> The answer may already be on your system
>
> Darryl
>
> 678.355.8562
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 2:06 PM Steve Jones <sjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> I need to determine the maximum number of a given item number we can make
>
> based on current inventory level of the components.
>
> I have a program that can explode the BOM using a recursive call and I can 
> easily take the components it comes up with & see how many we have. The
>
> issue becomes when one of the components is a sub-assembly.
>
> Example:
>
> level   Item                    Qty per
>
> 1        9672-02              1.000
>
> .2       5156                   1.000
>
> .2       4993                   1.000
>
> We may only show 1 of the 9672-02 on-hand, but we have enough of the 5156
>
> and 4993 to make 10.  So we potentially have a qty of 11 of 9672-02 (1
>
> currently in inventory + 10 that we could make).
>
> The sub-assemblies may have sub-assemblies which complicates this even
>
> further.
>
> Anyone ever tackled this type of logic?
>
> Steve Jones
>
> H-P Products, Inc
>
> 330-871-2054
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