Parts on the fly - Create non-sellable items

Epicor ERP 10
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Hi all,

I have a use case for parts on the fly but Im not too sure if this is the correct feature of Epicor to use or not.

We want to create jigs which is basically like a mould and used internally, this will not be sold or used in another job. We make it and it stays with us, it’s like an asset. However, we want to make a lot of these jigs and we want to track labour hours for calculating efficiency when making these jigs. Is this a use case for parts on the fly or should I be using something else for eg indirect activity?

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Using regular parts and marking them as non-stock and non-saleable might work better. I have a client who does something very similar with dies they make. They create the part, use rev control with methods, so they get treated the same as other parts (other than selling them), and the jobs to create them can be scheduled with same resources as other jobs, if desired.

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Thanks for the prompt response.

If I make the item as non-stock and create a part for it everytime then engineering needs to be involved. OR are you recommending that we create one generic part to cover all different types of jigs?

I guess that the only reason why we are considering parts on the fly vs creating a new part is two-fold

  1. so that we can capture different types of jigs that we would need to make, and record hours individually against each type of jig (but from what I’m understanding now is that we can probably create a generic jig part in part master to capture all of the different jig related jobs)
  2. at the same time also explore POTF for some of the rework jobs that we have for stuff we get back from customers and need to rework and ship back to them.
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The only issue I see with POTF is that you can’t really track it as something, since it can’t become inventory (which you can then issue to and return from the jobs you actually use it on).

The workaround for THAT would be to create it as a Resource, and assign it to whatever operation requires it.

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Adding on to @Ernie , if you have the asset module, you could create a job for the jig and turn it into a resource after. Then you would have the cost of the job transfer as the cost of the asset.

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