I will give this possible solution to Engineering, but adding 50 new material lines might not make them happy.
Miguel A. Santillan
Compass Manufacturing Systems
From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2015 8:31 AM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Re: E9: Scrap factors
I would do at Todd suggested and add the scrap wire as a separate material with 3 ft as parent qty per part with the Fixed Qty checkbox checked.
Word of warning, if any jobs which have a fixed qty are combined using batching, it will add 3 ft for each job batched so you will need to “adjust” it once the batch job is created.
Example: You have jobs 123 and 124 with the same operation, same materials and you want to run both jobs together so you “batch” them using the Resource Group Scheduling Board (Actions > Batch Operations). It will add 6 ft of wire instead of 3 ft (3 ft for job 123 and 3 ft for job 124) to the batched job it creates because there are two jobs having a fixed qty. You would then have to go into the batched job (125) and change the wire quantity from 6 ft to 3 ft. (If there were 3 jobs that you were batching, it would add 9 ft. of wire)
Bethany Rye
Epicor Business Analyst
PTI Engineered Plastics