Thanks everyone, BTW.
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Advanced Part Attributes enters the Chat 
But honestly though it sounds like if you are going to repace the Mud Flaps that’s a job in itself which can consumme 753999 → and Put out 754000 (after modification) so that should be ok…
You just have to build a BOM for that quick Mod Flap replacement job
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So, here is my suggestion.
- Use Forecasts to get demand in the system. Enter any part number you want.
- Set the before and after consumption to 0. This should just make it be demand and should never get consumed.
F-----G @josecgomez BEAT ME TOO IT AGAIN!!
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I should not have even tried. You did say you were trying to procrastinate!
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I am / was but this stuff won’t get done today otherwise so I’m moving my focus elsewhere. I’ll be back!!
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In all honesty, it does seem like you are concentrating too much on the current process and thinking of all the pushback you will be getting from everyone else in your company. I’m not saying this as a negative, we all do it!
Are your trucks Serial or Lot tracked? That should take care of any costing concerns if you do. You can always build a report or dashboard to “straight line” the costs for someone.
Adding the extra BOM like @josecgomez suggested also allows you to take the existing mud flaps off and return to inventory.
This could all be easily mapped out in a process flow and then people could poke holes in it. Rinse and repeat until everyone is happy with it.
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Oh boy. So the ones that we removed, would that be salvage? Never done that before. Or return misc material or something?
So for our Product Support/Warranty/Aftermarket crews that need to know what did go on this customer’s truck, I’d have to somehow merge the two jobs. We use Projects (one per truck) so that would be tricky but doable I guess.
Currently we just reopen the original job, but I’m listening to other options. It would be nice to capture the rework in a separate bucket (job).
Yes Salvage or Scrap.. or you could go CRAZY and go with COPart shudder
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They would because you issued part X as a material to part Y and the materials that were added would be in the BOM. If you return material from the job for the old materials, you can capture that in a report too.
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Well, yeah!
Trying not to, though.
But I do need answers for them.
Honestly, all the people that set up these processes have left at some point in the last decade. So the people now probably don’t care at all to defend the system.
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Not put flaps on until you know!
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Mother…
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Well I did not expect this to go on for 3+ hours, so sorry everyone, but I am about to dip out.
Lots of good info and thoughts - thanks again.
This is foreign to me. I haven’t looked at forecasts in a while. I’ll have to look at that.
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You started the conversation off with “Offended” and “Criticize”
This is the internet, this is gonna go on for weeks!
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Way to get us going and leave us hanging
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For THREE HOURS.
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Spitballing here…
I get the top level assemblies get a new PN when you swap out the new mudflaps or w/e widget you are swapping out as it’s different therefore new top level PN. But truthfully, you need demand in the system for the child parts/assemblies so you will be able to build the TOP level parent or its successor once you add a new safety feature or w/e. Why not create a BASE grouping of children parts that go on 80% of your product and use that to forecast or job out partial assemblies needed to create the parent top level assemblies?
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