Some multi-plant manufacturers need to maintain a different bill of materials at each location. For example, one plant has the capability to manufacture a subassemply in house and another plant that makes the same item does not have the capability to manufacture that subassembly in house. The bill of materials module should allow entry of an optional warehouse code to allow for a plant specific bill of materials. Then when you specify the bill of material and warehouse in BOM tasks like production entry, and WO tasks like WO entry the system would use the warehouse specific bill if there is one. MRP should also check for a warehouse specific bill before using the standard 'global' bill of material that applies to all warehouses.

Alternatively, you could leverage the revision functionality already in the bill of materials module by creating a table that associates a bill number and revision to a warehouse code. The BOM, WO, and MRP programs would check that table first and if there is no warehouse specific bill and revision, then the existing logic would be used.

by: Steve P. | over a year ago | Manufacturing