Might be one for the great @jkane… but am looking to anyone and everyone.
Little background. We coat materials with adhesive and wind them up into long rolls (6000+ linear feet long) and they are about 50-65 inches wide.
We then get orders to convert those coated rolls into smaller rolls, both in length and width.
There is scrap in the coating process and there is scrap in the converting process.
For a completely custom product we will add the first coating process as a subassembly in the quote and link it to a converting operation where we add packaging materials into the job.
Here’s where we are trying to get a little more granular, but historically have lumped things into different spots to get the cost to come out.
When we have scrap in the converting process, we have added that into the material scrap % at the coating level (the subassembly) and the operation qty/per or operation scrap at the coating op.
However, we are starting to wonder if there’s a better way to do this and put the scrap where it’s actually occurring… in the converting operation.
Is there no way to add scrap onto a subassembly?
If not, can I just make a part on the fly material and make it a “make direct” part on the BOM and then specify the details of that part somewhere else so MRP can pull it?
The point being to make scrap a little easier to identify for end users (sales and engineering) so they can clearly see that we are losing (these are examples) 2% in coating and 3% in converting? Instead of seeing 5.5% in coating on the coating materials?
This would be only custom quoting products where we pull details from the quote into the job.
For everything else we make parts for all the subassemblies and stock them for the most part because we usually inventory two/three-step products in one of the steps.
That works fine man… I’m saying though when they go to make a job for this quote line… where do the details for that “make to job/make direct” material come from given it’s a part on the fly?
Quote entry has scrap. Is that what you are talking about? If you do make direct with part on the fly, and it’s linked to a quote, OOTB it gets the mom from the quote.
And yes, I know the scrap box is there. I want to use that box on the material AND I want to specify the details of that material (without making it a subassembly).
I guess I don’t know. If it were me, I would just make that a subassembly instead of a material, and define it all on the quote as well as keep it in the same job.
thank you, please reference original question in post (I know you got mentioned deep in the thread), but we are doing that today and I detailed the issue with that above.
