All Job demand links are currently Make to Stock. I am testing Make Direct releases and am able to receive the parts from the Job to inventory – then ship from inventory – instead of shipping them from the Job.
After poking around in Job Closing, Job Entry, Job Manager, Inventory WIP/Recon, I am not seeing a major issue with doing this. The JobProd records for this job look messed up (see below), but I am wondering how this might negatively affect anything else moving forward.
Screenshot below is a single job with one Make to Stock and two Make to Order demand links. One Order was shipped directly from the job, and the other was shipped from inventory. The missing ShippedQty is offset by the increased ReceivedQty.
Since you are doing MTO for a SO, you will need to break the make direct link on the SO to satisfy the shipment. If you try and ship, the system will be looking to pull inventory from the job. In the event that say you have an SO for 15 pieces, but it just makes sense to build 20, you may ship 15 from the job and receive the additional 5 to inventory. One big reason to have a make to order job is that the part is non-stock. Keep in mind that if you stock a non-stock part, the system will not “see” it as potential supply in the future. If you have another SO come in for 5 pieces on a non-stock part that you happen to have in stock, the system will still suggest a job for 5 pieces.
It was a few months before we caught that the jobs still had pieces and it was a few years back, but I think it was cancel invoice, do the correction station process on Customer shipment entry unfreight then unship the inventory, on the job do a negative mfg receipt, then change the customer shipment entry to ship from job, mark as shipped, reinvoice.
