Hello Folks,
I just wanted to clarify how scrap percentages are assigned —whether it’s at the material level inside the sub-assembly at the sub-assembly itself at a higher level.
Thank you for your help.
This tripped me up as well, cause imagine the subassembly is part of the whole and the subassembly itself is something measured in length, and you have to use a certain length of it to make a finished good. Well in the process of converting that subassembly, say slitting it, you lose some footage due to scrap. It seems natural that the quantity per parent for the subassembly would be exactly the amount that goes into a finished good (excluding scrap) and that there would be a scrap field on the subassembly which would raise the required quantity of the materials that are involved in making the subassembly, but the way I see it is that you instead have to add that scrap % to each of the materials in the subassembly. To me this makes it unclear to an end user why the scrap on the material is the way it is unless they understand the way we are forced to do it. I wish you could put scrap on a subassembly, I don’t recall the critical thinking I did about why they don’t have it like that, but alas… here we are, someone asking the same thing I did a few months ago. Love this forum.