Assemblies, Materials and Make Direct

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> We have been using Vantage 8.03 for 4+ years. We are tackling a new project to put more detail in Vantage. Only concerned about job scheduling and inventory. Don't care about cost right now.  I am adding sub assemblies to my jobs so I can add operations to track our progress of the component parts.  We need to put the subassembly parts into inventory and sometimes issue the assembly from inventory so I ended up adding the exact same materials to the job.  So in the end, I have a top level part on the job that has subassemblies for the 9 or 10 component parts with operations and I repeat the same parts as materials on the job.  I thought maybe the Make Direct button would do something to avoid one of these steps but that does not seem to be the case.  We do not want to create 9 or 10 different jobs every time but I am afraid of this strategy of repeating the material as a subassembly and a material on the job.  Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.    Â
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Hello Adam,

Do you run MRP?

Having a part setup on a job as a sub assembly will not create inventory. If you want inventory of the sub assembly part then this part has to be set to be an inventory for your main manufactured part. This will then create demand that an MRP will cater for. Depending on stock levels of the sub assembly part MRP will either tell you to buy it or make it (depending on part setup). If you dont want to create jobs it might be more practical to perform a kanban receipt to create inventory of the original sub assembly part (will also backflush the materials if setup to). You can then set a safety stock or min qty level where the MRP can forecast when you need to buy or make depending on your stock levels and future demand. We are also going through this process as we speakÂ… we have always had one BOM with many sub assemblies. Having inventory of these sub assemblies gives visibility and control as well as being able to schedule these sub assemblies (ie sub assembly jobs).

I hope this helps a little.

Cheers
Paul
We have been using Vantage 8.03 for 4+ years.  We are tackling a new project to put more detail in Vantage.  Only concerned about job scheduling and inventory.  Don't care about cost right now.   I am adding sub assemblies to my jobs so I can add operations to track our progress of the component parts.    We need to put the subassembly parts into inventory and sometimes issue the assembly from inventory so I ended up adding the exact same materials to the job.   So in the end, I have a top level part on the job that has subassemblies for the 9 or 10 component parts with operations and I repeat the same parts as materials on the job.   I thought maybe the Make Direct button would do something to avoid one of these steps but that does not seem to be the case.   We do not want to create 9 or 10 different jobs every time but I am afraid of this strategy of repeating the material as a subassembly and a material on the job.   Any suggestions would be appreciated.  Thanks.        
Hi Adam,

I'm not sure if I completely understand your question, but here is my response. Hopefully it is helpful? We are on Vantage 8.03.409A.

My understanding of Vantage is as follows:

There are 2 types of jobs: make-to-inventory and make-to-order.
Make-to-inventory jobs are based on a demand coming from a stock part. i.e. Minimum stock level is 200, and the system has fallen below 200 units.
Make-to-order jobs are based on a demand coming from a sales order.

You must first make the item to inventory using a make-to-order job, then pull the material into a make-to-order job.

Make to inventory job will look something like this:

XYZ
Internal Operation
Part1
Screws
Flanges
etc.


Your make-to-order job will look something like this:

ABC-CHAIR
Internal Operation
Subassemblies (these are made direct to order)
Material: XYZ (you pull XYZ from stock, so bring in as material, not subassembly)
Any other materials (purchased or stock materials)

--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, <afeuerstein@...> wrote:
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> We have been using Vantage 8.03 for 4+ years. We are tackling a new project to put more detail in Vantage. Only concerned about job scheduling and inventory. Don't care about cost right now.  I am adding sub assemblies to my jobs so I can add operations to track our progress of the component parts.  We need to put the subassembly parts into inventory and sometimes issue the assembly from inventory so I ended up adding the exact same materials to the job.  So in the end, I have a top level part on the job that has subassemblies for the 9 or 10 component parts with operations and I repeat the same parts as materials on the job.  I thought maybe the Make Direct button would do something to avoid one of these steps but that does not seem to be the case.  We do not want to create 9 or 10 different jobs every time but I am afraid of this strategy of repeating the material as a subassembly and a material on the job.  Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.    Â
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