Inventory and MOM issues with sheet stock 9.05.607

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Subject: [Vantage] Inventory and MOM issues with sheet stock 9.05.607



We just barely got up and running and are still trying to find out the best way to handle some things and what Epicor tools or features we could use better.

We use a lot of both wood and metal sheet stock. Popular raw sheet sizes are 48"x120", 60"x144", etc. (inventoried as 'each' and not sq ft). With the wood sheets, we use some optimizer software that will combine more than one job requirement if necessary to both effciently use the sheet as well as generate CNC code for our CNC routing machines. I guess for this area, MOMs would use material by the square foot with some estimated scrap percentage and backflush.

For the metal sheets, they are sheared in a more traditional manner without any optimizing so we often end up with large sheets of 'drop off' that we of course save and use whenever possible for smaller size requirements. I do not want to charge full sheets to a job if it really has significant usable drop off. On I'm looking at right now is a 89" by 29" piece being cut from a 48"x120" sheet for example. I'll likely get a 21"x48" drop off and a 19"x89" drop off when this is sheared.

If I backflush metal sheet material in square feet, I can have a lot of square footage in stock without very much of it being full sheets. I was thinking of creating two additional part numbers for 1/2 and maybe 1/4 sheets to track inventory of the drop off but creating additional part numbers does not seem like the best way.

My engineer also tells me that in JobBoss (that we just shut off), it would calculate how many (metal) sheets he would need for any cut sizes he specified in the job and was wondering if Epicor had a similar feature or even something that might optimize multiple job requirements on one sheet.

Anybody else out there use sheet stock in a similar manner? How do you handle in Epicor?



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We just barely got up and running and are still trying to find out the best way to handle some things and what Epicor tools or features we could use better.

We use a lot of both wood and metal sheet stock. Popular raw sheet sizes are 48"x120", 60"x144", etc. (inventoried as 'each' and not sq ft). With the wood sheets, we use some optimizer software that will combine more than one job requirement if necessary to both effciently use the sheet as well as generate CNC code for our CNC routing machines. I guess for this area, MOMs would use material by the square foot with some estimated scrap percentage and backflush.

For the metal sheets, they are sheared in a more traditional manner without any optimizing so we often end up with large sheets of 'drop off' that we of course save and use whenever possible for smaller size requirements. I do not want to charge full sheets to a job if it really has significant usable drop off. On I'm looking at right now is a 89" by 29" piece being cut from a 48"x120" sheet for example. I'll likely get a 21"x48" drop off and a 19"x89" drop off when this is sheared.

If I backflush metal sheet material in square feet, I can have a lot of square footage in stock without very much of it being full sheets. I was thinking of creating two additional part numbers for 1/2 and maybe 1/4 sheets to track inventory of the drop off but creating additional part numbers does not seem like the best way.

My engineer also tells me that in JobBoss (that we just shut off), it would calculate how many (metal) sheets he would need for any cut sizes he specified in the job and was wondering if Epicor had a similar feature or even something that might optimize multiple job requirements on one sheet.

Anybody else out there use sheet stock in a similar manner? How do you handle in Epicor?