Introduction
This guide provides details on how to use BusinessCraft to address Make to Order requirements explaining the setup required and key process flow steps as follows:
Products and components are set up in the Inventory Module
Bills of Material can optionally be created for the Products to be manufactured
Customers place orders for products that are not in stock and back orders are created
Shop Floor Orders are generated from those back orders
Shop Orders are released for manufacturing
Manufacturing costs are recorded against the job
Items manufactured are reported and placed into stock
Standard despatch process ships goods from stock to customer
Standard invoicing process for parts is used to invoice customer
Please refer to the relevant Product Guide for details on setting up and using the various modules.
Setup
Standard Product Routing Module Setup
Go to Standard Product Routing > Setup > Routing Setup and if not previously setup the system will create a control record. No other action is required in this module. Click OK and exit.
Job Costing Job Types
Go to Job Costing > Tables > Job Types and ensure that one or more Job Types as required are setup to collect the costs of manufacture. Ensure the Auto Generation, Overide Allowed, Production Job and Internal Work Order fields are set to Y.
Shop Floor Control Module Setup
Go to Shop Floor Control > Setup > Shop Floor Parameters Setup and ensure that the module is set up appropriately as per the Shop Floor Control Product Guide. Use the following screen shots as a guide:
Bill of Materials Module Setup
Go to Bill of Materials > Setup > Bill of Materials Setup and ensure that the module is set up appropriately as per the Bill of Materials Product Guide. Use the following screen shot as a guide:
Create Products and Components
Go to Inventory > Maintain > Inventory and ensure the required products to be manufactured are defined:
On Page 2, unless there will never be a need to generate shop orders from customer back orders for the item, it is important to ensure the Stocked Flag is set to N for the items to be manufactured and that the Purchased or Manufactured flag is set correctly to M.
Here is an example of a component:
On Page 2, unless there will never be a need to generate shop orders from customer back orders for the item, it is important to ensure the Stocked Flag is set to N and that the Purchased or Manufactured flag is set correctly to either P or M depending on how the component is procured.
Create Bill of Materials for Products
Go to Bill of Materials > Maintain > Bill and enter the Item Code for the product for which a bill of materials is needed:
Activate the Compont(F5) function key. If the bill of materials has not been previously defined a message is displayed indicating there are no items, click OK and proceed to add the components needed to make the end product ensuring that the correct quantity per assembly is recorded:
Before creating Shop Orders products, it is important to roll up the costs
for new or changed Bill of Materials so that the end product
(and any intermediate assemblies that are manufactured) have the correct average cost.
Failure to do so will result in incorrect stock valuation and invalid manufacturing variances.
Roll up Costs for Bill of Materials
The Costing Bill of Materials Report provides the ability to roll up the costs and optionally calculate sell price for the bill of materials. It is important to carry out this step so that the Inventory Module has an average cost for the product to be manufactured including any intermediate manufactured assemblies. The cost roll can be based on components’ average cost, last cost or buy price.
Go to Bill of Materials > Reports > Costing Bill of Materials and enter the Item Code for the product to be cost rolled (this can be done for the whole database if required where there has been a significant change to the costs of all components or new margins are to be applied).
Note the parameter options – each of these settings are explained in the Bill of Materials Product Guide:
The Costing Bill of Materials Report shows any change in Cost and Price based on changes in the Bill of Material or changes in costs of components:
If there is stock on hand of the product cost rolled and there has been a change in cost as a result of the cost roll, then the system will create financial transactions for the stock revaluation (or devaluation) to DR/CR Stock on Hand and DR/CR Stock Revaluation Accounts defined in Inventory Setup.
Processing
Customer Places Order for Product
Record the customer’s order in the normal manner in the Order Entry Module (refer to the Order Entry module documentation for any specific details you are not familiar with). Go to Order Entry > Maintain > Orders and record the customer’s order:
At the point of entering the quantity required on the Stock Spec Line, if there is insufficient stock to satisfy the order quantity in the location specified, an insufficient stock message will prompt to Back Order all or part of the item quantity.
After back ordering, an option is provided the edit details of the back order:
It is important to back order the items required as this is a make to order process and relies on back orders to trigger manufacturing.
Here is the completed order:
Generate Shop Floor from Back Orders
Go to Shop Floor Control > Generate Shop Orders > From Back Orders and enter the customer order just recorded in the previous step in the fields provided and click OK:
A prompt is provided to confirm the process:
The system will default the Shop Floor Order prefix but a different prefix can be selected if multiple prefixes for shop floor orders exist.
The system will present the shop floor orders that will be generated:
On exiting the report, the option is provided to continue or discontinue the process:
Releasing the Shop Order for Manufacture
The Shop Order generated will have a status of Unreleased. This means that changes can still be made to the order before it is released to manufacturing.
Navigate to Shop Floor Control > Maintain > Shop Orders and locate the shop floor order just generated. Make any changes required.
After any required changes have been made, select Release from the Menu Sidebar and enter/select the Shop Order number.
A prompt appears to confirm that this is the correct Shop Order:
If this is the correct Shop Order click the Yes button and a pop up menu appears defaulting to Release Shop Order, click OK.
A second pop up menu will appear defaulting to print the Standard Shop Floor Packet. This is used to communicate to manufacturing what is to be manufactured, start and due dates, and what is required regarding components along with any other information needed in relation to manufacturing instructions.
Click OK and print the resulting shop packet (there may be multiple templates to choose from).
If Shop Floor Control is setup to automatically generate requisitions for the components required, the following message is displayed:
If Shop Floor Control is setup for Backflushing, then an Allocate Inventory message is displayed.
If Shop Floor control is set up for manual requisitions, then no message appears.
A message is displayed confirming the Shop Floor Order has been Released.
Creating Shop Orders Manually
Although this guide is describing the process flow focused on generating Shop Orders from back orders, it is important to note that it is also possible to create Shop Floor Orders manually and link them to an existing Sales Order back order.
Go to Shop Floor Control > Maintain > Shop Orders and select Add from the Menu Sidebar to create a Shop Floor Order.
The system will default the Shop Floor Order prefix but a different prefix can be selected if multiple prefixes for shop floor orders have been defined. Enter the Location where the finished goods are to be stored. Then enter the item required to be manufactured.
A prompt appears to confirm if this Shop Order needs to be linked to a Parent Shop Order. Unless this is required, accept the default of No. A prompt appears to confirm if this Shop Order is for a Sales Order. As this is a make to order Shop Order and a customer order is involved, choose Yes.
Click Yes and enter/select the Order Number:
Followed by the Order Line
Recording Costs of Manufacture.
When a Shop Floor Order is created, an equivalent Job Number is created in the Job Costing module for the collection of costs incurred in manufacturing the products. Labour, Materials, Purchases, Subcontracting and Other Costs are booked to the jobs created in the usual manner.
These actual costs can be compared to the estimated costs of manufacture using various reports available in the Shop Floor Module. Refer to the Job costing and Shop Floor Module documentation respectively for more details if required.
Reporting Manufacturing Completions
It is important to report the completion of items manufactured in a timely manner so that there is visibility of those items available in stock for supply to customers. BusinessCraft provides the ability to report progressive completions if required to satisfy this requirement.
To report the completion of items in Shop Floor orders, go to Shop Floor Control > Maintain > Shop Orders and select Update from the Menu Sidebar. Select Complete Shop Order from the menu:
Enter the Shop Floor order for which completions are to be reported:
Accept the prompt, and proceed to the Qty Completed field, the quantity will default to the Total Quantity required on the Shop Floor Order, however this can be changed for partial completions:
Click OK and confirm to record the quantity recorded – this is important as this action will update stock on hand with the quantity reported.
A prompt appears for the completion date – this is the date that will be recorded in inventory transaction history – it defaults to the current date. Change the date if required and click OK.
If a partial quantity completion was entered, this completes the process. When the next quantity manufactured is to be reported, repeat the steps until the order quantity is reported.
If the quantity reported as complete satisfies the total quantity to be made on the Shop Order, a prompt to close the Shop Floor Order is displayed. Click Yes:
A prompt to close the job that is collecting the manufacturing costs appears. Quite often the costs will still be in the process of recording against the job normally accept the default of No so the job can be closed at a later appropriate time.
A confirmation is displayed:
At the stage that the reporting of shop floor completions ends (depends on partial or full completions), and a message alerting the existence of the customer order to be satisfied is displayed to prompt the user to commence the despatch process for the customer order:
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23rd May 2017