Manufacturing Module

Feature / Workflow of new Manufacturing Module

BOM

• There will be a new table Flat BOM and Flat BOM item that will contain the exploded BOM for all BOMs for "Finished Goods" items.
• Flat BOMs will be re-built everytime a linked BOM is updated.
• Flat BOMs can be rebuilt manually to reflect latest purchase rates.

Project

• Additional Field:
  • BOM
  • Sales Order
• Project will have type "Manufacturing". Following features will apply for this type of Projects
• A Project can be built from a BOM
• When a Project is built, all tasks will be generated from the "Operations" section of BOM with dependencies of sub-assemblies
• All tasks will be updated with material required based on the BOM.
• When the start date of the project is changed, all tasks will be "pushed"
• If the project is against a Sales Order, system will validate that the number of Manufacturing projects against this Sales Order does not exceed the ordered quantity

Task

• Additional Fields
  • Workstation
  • Duration
  • For Item (the item that is created when this task is complete).
  • Quantity
• Additional Tables:
  • Depends On Tasks (tasks of sub-assemblies or other tasks this task is dependent on)
  • Materials Required for this task
• When the task is completed, a Stock Entry can be created to update the inventory.

Tool: Gantt

• Gantt for all Tasks
• Filtered by User, Workstation, Project
• Edit task dates directly from Gantt

Tool: BOM Tree Editor

• Tree editor for BOM
  • Add Operations and Material directly from the tree. Create, Edit BOM from Tree

Tool: Simulator

• Simulate all material entries in a given period.

• All Purchase Orders (Purchase Receipt)

• All Manufacturing type Tasks where items are consumed and a new item is created.

• All Sales Orders (Delivery Note)

• Show log of all failed events (Orders not delivered etc).

• If stockout, fail all subsequent events.

• Show list of all items that will be potentially out of stock.