Honestly, you are shooting yourself in the foot by maintaining multiple part numbers for the same actual part (just because they come from different vendors - or perhaps are also produced occasionally internally on you own equipment).
Doesn't that over-complicate BOM maintenance and job processing for you?
Multiple Supplier-Price Lists for a single part are the way to go.
Let MRP create the suggestion (which will be for your primary vendor set up in Part Entry) and let the Buyer change it to the desired vendor as conditions dictate.
Rob Brown
Doesn't that over-complicate BOM maintenance and job processing for you?
Multiple Supplier-Price Lists for a single part are the way to go.
Let MRP create the suggestion (which will be for your primary vendor set up in Part Entry) and let the Buyer change it to the desired vendor as conditions dictate.
Rob Brown
--- On Thu, 10/16/08, Charles Carden <shadowcar1449@...> wrote:
From: Charles Carden <shadowcar1449@...>
Subject: Re: [Vantage] Handling Parts where the Vendor changes quite often
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Date: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 5:49 PM
I don't know that this is a really good suggestion but you might think about serializing the parts. Doing so would create another set of problems but it would allow you to know the exact part that was used.
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul E. Millsaps
To: vantage@yahoogroups .com
Sent: Thursday, October 16, :15 PM
Subject: [Vantage] Handling Parts where the Vendor changes quite often
We have a few parts where we will order the exact same part from 2
different vendors, and need to keep track of which vendor supplied the
part for a particular unit. Here is an example:
We order Part 123-1 from Vendor A, which is a part of Assembly 111. The
next time we need the part, their shop is overloaded so we order part
123-2 from vendor B, which is the same exact part, except that the
manufacturer is different. (We are using the 2 separate part numbers to
keep the vendors separated). So we would have a timing issue on which
one goes into what unit we are in process on. But for warranty work, we
really need to know which Vendor supplied the part that went into that
particular unit.
It also becomes a bit more complicated insofar as we may have Part 123-1
and 123-2 on the shop floor, and suddenly run out of part 123-1. Since
the warehouse knows that the 123-2 is the same part, they just start
pulling 123-2's in place of the 123-1 until we get some more of the
123-1 part back into stock.
What would be the best practice to be able to handle these types of
situations? We were thinking about Lot Control on the items, but the
problem is that we wouldn't know when printing the Job Traveler which
Lot they should be pulling from, unless I mis-understand how the Lot
Control system works. Are there any other mechanism's in place to
handle these types of situations?
Paul Millsaps
Time Manufacturing
paulm@timemfg. com
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