Co Parts - User Guide or Help Anywhere?

Kinetic ERP
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Does anyone have any user guide or tech ref guide or ANY epicor documentation explaining the ins and outs of co parts?

What documentation I can find is rather “lite”…

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In short, no. I have never found any documentation myself.

What would you like to know?

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I think the only documentation is in an Engineering Users Guide or maybe it’s the Manufacturing Users Guide. What kind of help do you need?

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@Beth is the Queen of Co-Parts

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It’s in the Advanced Production Education Course Document (Classic), as far as I know the Kinetic translation has not been done yet.

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Beth, I have seen your name on most of the co-part posts.

Well really, we just wanted a crash course/basic overview of co-parts, where they can be used in the system and any setup factors and prerequisites to using them.

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Thanks Ernie!

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@jkane see my response to Beth.

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I’m deferring to @Beth , I’ve dabbled but would not be considered a Queen (or King) of co-parts.

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I’d be happy to answer your questions, Utah. Send me a message and we can set up a time for a meeting where I can share some knowledge with you!

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I knew it was somewhere, Ernie, but wasn’t sure where I saw it. Since I’ve switched companies, I don’t have access to my old documentation :wink:

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Thanks Beth, I gotta coordinate with my operations person and loop him in. I’ll message you.

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Co-parts only apply to manufactured parts, right? I need a way to tell the system that when I buy Part A - that is consists of Parts B, C & D and they all go to different places. We buy a connector that has a backshell, o-ring, terminals and they don’t stay with the connector body because of the way it’s all packaged.

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Hi Wendy,
I think what you’re looking for is purchasing ‘kits’. Epicor doesn’t support this currently, but lots of people have asked about it. There is an Epicor Idea for it here that you can vote on: https://epicor-manufacturing.ideas.aha.io/ideas/ERP-I-1856

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The only way I could see coparts working for your situation, Wendy, is if you created a job with an operation to “separate” the purchased part. Then you could use coparts.

So the part(s) you would be manufacturing would be B, C, and D. The material would be A and the operation would be separate.

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I may try this out in our Test database and see how it works; we certainly need to come up with something to make it work better. We’re relying far too much on tribal knowledge around here and none of us are getting any younger…

Also, @andrew.johnson - I did go and vote for the purchasing kits idea.

Update – I suppose I won’t be trying it out since we don’t have the Advanced Production license… a real bummer because I just came across the PERFECT application for it. Back to the drawing board…