We are currently implementing real time material allocation to jobs. We currently struggle with operators notifying supervisors that a material is not available in their respective bin, and will skip issuing material and continue to work after receiving the “This transaction will result in a negative on hand quantity for the bin” error. Are there any solutions so that a designated recipient is alerted via email or some other form of notification once a user experiences this error in MES?
Semi, I worked as an intern for former System Admin. He found a new job and I was bumped up and still learning a lot about ERP systems and computer science in general. We figured it was a BPM. Inexperience is most likely just our hiccup in this situation.
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Are they physically holding the material that is being issued and it is just that the bin being picked is wrong or is there no material to issue?
I think you could set the negative action to warn and not stop and then fire off the email to materials to do a bin transfer to true up the negative bin.
Do you know how to do a trace? The email would come post processing from the method that did the quantity check,
Yes, the employee’s are physically holding the material. We run a DMT after the job is created to set the “From” locations to automatically populate those locations in MES, so that the operators are not choosing the location the material comes from. It is always stored in this designated bin.
These materials are stored as stock in other warehouses until needed for production. The material will physically move, but a user will forget to transfer the material to the correct warehouse, hence causing the negative quantity error.
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Are the materials lot tracked? Is there a reason they can not be backflushed for the operator? This will always allow the negative action to happen and then materials does a daily cleanup and you keep moving forward.
You could probably set the proper bins on job update with a bpm and not have to mess with a DMT run for every job.
They are lot tracked. The quantity usage of material also varies. Most of these materials are cements that are drawn from a drum into smaller ounce cups.
This particular scenario ranges from 14-20 different materials which are all lot tracked. Because of this magnitude and little experience with BPM’s a DMT was the quick fix route.
@gpayne So we started on the path of this resolution, is there any way that we could set the negative action to warn on a part specific level? I would have to do some hard bargaining to convince production to switch all materials under this class, and would likely cause other issues even though it would resolve this one.
I don’t think warn is going to work for lot tracked. How quick is the turn for these jobs?
you could make a baq that went thru the job material for the next X days and show where there was not enough on hand in the proper bin, give materials a chance to fix the issue before production hit it.