Issuing materials with multiple bins

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Thanks guys for the suggestions. We'll give them a try and see what works best. Â

On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 4:07 PM, brandonanderson7979@... [vantage] <vantage@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 
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  <p>Also, if you are issuing material manually in the main system, when you click on the bin search, if you make sure that &quot;display all bins&quot; is UNchecked, it will only show the bins with inventory in them. It will also show how much is in each bin so the issuer can easily choose which bin it needs to come out of to avoid going negative.</p>

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I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around issuing materials from multiple bins and am hoping I'm just missing something simple.  We have bin A and bin B.  A is where a majority of our stock is held.  B is the bins for an assembly area.  If we make a job for 200 parent parts and I only have 50 child parts in bin B and do an issue materials, bin B goes into the negative.  I know we could then do an inventory transfer from A to B, but if that parent part has 20 child parts, we would have to check each one and then do an inventory transfer to each one that was negative.  That seems like a lot of checking and if we are doing lots of jobs could end up taking up most of the day for someone.  Surely there has to be an easier way that I'm missing here.  Thanks. 

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Change your part classes to Warn or Stop from going to neg.  This will not stop backflush items though.

 

Miguel A. Santillan

Compass Manufacturing Systems

 

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I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around issuing materials from multiple bins and am hoping I'm just missing something simple.  We have bin A and bin B.  A is where a majority of our stock is held.  B is the bins for an assembly area.  If we make a job for 200 parent parts and I only have 50 child parts in bin B and do an issue materials, bin B goes into the negative.  I know we could then do an inventory transfer from A to B, but if that parent part has 20 child parts, we would have to check each one and then do an inventory transfer to each one that was negative.  That seems like a lot of checking and if we are doing lots of jobs could end up taking up most of the day for someone.  Surely there has to be an easier way that I'm missing here.  Thanks. 



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Are you backflushing or issuing manually?

for backflushing there is a whole hierarchy of  where things get pulled from depending on where you have backflush bins set, and primary bins, qty on hand etc. If you get it set up right, it works ok, but it takes a little digging to understand how it works, especially because some of the help files are wrong.

If you are issuing manually, the idea is to issue the parts as you pull them. So when someone pulls a bunch from your holding area, he would issue them as he pulled them. Then you know where they came from.

It might be easier to not put the assembly areas in the system, and have epicor treat them as one bin if you don't want to do the transfers from one to the next. That depends on how you want the business to run, and what tools you can make up to run outside of the system.

Multiple bins can definitely be a hassle.
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Also, if you are issuing material manually in the main system, when you click on the bin search, if you make sure that "display all bins" is UNchecked, it will only show the bins with inventory in them. It will also show how much is in each bin so the issuer can easily choose which bin it needs to come out of to avoid going negative.