Item that is manufactured AND Purchased

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The alternate method is still for the manufactured part and not as a
separate purchased part. It has one subcontract operation like "Make
Complete" and the purchase is actually purchasing the alternate
manufacturing method of single a subcontract operation.

You have to make a job with the alternate (subcontract "make complete")
method and purchasing makes a PO for that.

Greg


--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, Rob Bucek <rbucek@...> wrote:
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> We do the same and use alternate methods for this. It isn't prefect
but it can be useful if you stay on top of it.
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> "Turgeon, Bill" bturgeon@... wrote:
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> We have a single plant and run MRP nightly. We have several items that
> we make in our plant, but sometimes purchase from a supplier. The item
> has different cost when made versus when bought. At times, due to
> capacity or material issues, the same part is being produced
> simultaneously in our factory and at the supplier; two sources are
> supplying one customer demand.
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> We sell it to our customers as a single part number, regardless of
> whether we made it or bought it. Epicor does not allow an item to be
> both make and buy.
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> Does anyone out there have any idea as to how we can handle these
items
> that are both make and buy?
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We have a single plant and run MRP nightly. We have several items that
we make in our plant, but sometimes purchase from a supplier. The item
has different cost when made versus when bought. At times, due to
capacity or material issues, the same part is being produced
simultaneously in our factory and at the supplier; two sources are
supplying one customer demand.

We sell it to our customers as a single part number, regardless of
whether we made it or bought it. Epicor does not allow an item to be
both make and buy.



Does anyone out there have any idea as to how we can handle these items
that are both make and buy?





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We have the exact same situation, but only on a handful of parts. We set the part up selecting a type of M or P based on how it is most commonly created. MRP will treat it only as that type when making suggestions, so it is a manual decision whether we need to change how we get the part based on current demand and capacity.
I suppose you could set up a UD checkbox field to denote that the part goes both ways (Bi-Type?) and add it to the workbench grid view to help the buyer out, but we just handle it manually ourselves right now.

Thanks,
Ed
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Subject: [Vantage] Item that is manufactured AND Purchased.



We have a single plant and run MRP nightly. We have several items that
we make in our plant, but sometimes purchase from a supplier. The item
has different cost when made versus when bought. At times, due to
capacity or material issues, the same part is being produced
simultaneously in our factory and at the supplier; two sources are
supplying one customer demand.

We sell it to our customers as a single part number, regardless of
whether we made it or bought it. Epicor does not allow an item to be
both make and buy.

Does anyone out there have any idea as to how we can handle these items
that are both make and buy?

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Could you enter it as 2 separate parts and use the "Alternate" in part
maintenance to have orders entered for either? I have not used it at all
or researched it but I have seen it.



Josh Serwe

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Warehouse & Logistics Manager

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that is not learning from experience."

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--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, "Turgeon, Bill" <bturgeon@...> wrote:
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> We have a single plant and run MRP nightly. We have several items that
> we make in our plant, but sometimes purchase from a supplier. The item
> has different cost when made versus when bought. At times, due to
> capacity or material issues, the same part is being produced
> simultaneously in our factory and at the supplier; two sources are
> supplying one customer demand.
>
> We sell it to our customers as a single part number, regardless of
> whether we made it or bought it. Epicor does not allow an item to be
> both make and buy.
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> Does anyone out there have any idea as to how we can handle these items
> that are both make and buy?
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Epicor does handle it but cant read your mind if you want to buy it or make it this time.

If your going to treat the part as the same then you set the type to be what you do the majority of the time. If thats manuf then if you choose to buy some just raise a PO the next MRP will take it into account. Use a std cost that will cover both the cost to make or cost to buy... the system will create a variance to std once receipted if the PO cost is different to std. If the cost has to be 100% accurate then use alternate BOM's where the purchased part and manuf part are different... this is more work and potential more confusion though.
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We do the same and use alternate methods for this. It isn't prefect but it can be useful if you stay on top of it.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID


"Turgeon, Bill" <bturgeon@...> wrote:



We have a single plant and run MRP nightly. We have several items that
we make in our plant, but sometimes purchase from a supplier. The item
has different cost when made versus when bought. At times, due to
capacity or material issues, the same part is being produced
simultaneously in our factory and at the supplier; two sources are
supplying one customer demand.

We sell it to our customers as a single part number, regardless of
whether we made it or bought it. Epicor does not allow an item to be
both make and buy.

Does anyone out there have any idea as to how we can handle these items
that are both make and buy?

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