Build to Stock & Build to Order
Build to Stock with or without a Work-Order - From the Assembly/Finished Goods record (which contains the BOMs) you can instantly increase assembly stock based on buildable quantities of available materials. Build to stock with a work order will require the build process to go through the receiving and work order / WIP process before quantities are updated. Purchase orders can be generated from back-orders and matched within the purchase fulfillment process, so that stock received is reserved for builds they’re ordered for.
Build to Order - Create a work order from a new sales order (aka just in time manufacturing). While creating an order, see inventory levels so that backorder delays can be dealt with as soon as possible. Auto-create purchase events from back-ordered inventory to expedite build dates (ideal when supply-chain lead times are short).
Manually adjust Finished Goods - Without affecting the inventory of related BOMs, you can adjust inventory levels manually just as you would any inventory item.
Workorders, Capacity Planning, & Skills Grading - Workorders (also referred to as “build orders”) represent the list of finished goods in the queue waiting to be built. Work order lists can be filtered by any number of criteria including ability to filter out builds that are awaiting back-order replenishment, awaiting picking, and so forth.
Supervisor Reviews - From the work-order, shop-floor supervisors can add or remove routing steps, as well as assign or remove shop-floor users from routing steps as needed, based on work-center affiliation or skills-grade.
Workorder Task Management - All routing steps are integrated with the activity manager, where users can interact with a list of build tasks assigned to them.
Build tasks from multiple workers belonging to multiple teams can be hierarchically listed for task managers based on permission control.
Dynamic / Static Assemblies & Bills of Materials (BOMs) - Assemblies contain BOMs or other Assemblies which also contain BOMs, with each representing a level in the overall finished good’s BOM hierarchy. Each BOM member item (part, raw material, etc..) can also be sold individually with its own units of measure (UOMs).
BOMs can also include non-inventory and service based items such as embedded labor to calculate line item price with built-in fixed/set hours.
BOM Substitutions - Substitute BOM items that have substitutable equivalents within the work order, or from the sales order, prior to work order generation (in addition to the assembly master, which is where the BOM template is defined).
Assembly & Disassembly - Ability to disassemble a Finished Good, with all requisite accounting and inventory level reversals.
Quality Control - Set “inspection” values which can be set to “required” so that every item received from a vendor get inspected for quality, prior to work in progress (WIP) commencement.
BizAutomation’s item configurator is an essential part of build logistics, and can even bypass more complex workorder processes in cases where the BOM is relatively simple, such as 2 layer builds. Streamlining time to build steps where possible, removes needless clutter from more complex work order builds, and improves time to ship turn-around for new orders.
Configure to Stock - Configurations can be made on the fly during a new sales order creation, generating new SKUs dynamically which can be added to inventory.
Configure to Order or Opportunity - Configure to a sales order or sales opportunity (Configuration can also be added to Quotes and Invoices) in order to create dynamic SKUs specific to an order, bypassing the need to store the SKU in off the shelf inventory.
Non-Inventory Items - Include any non-inventory item in any configuration, which can also include labor services to represent fixed / embedded assembly or handling labor.
Order History Look-up - Re-build previous configurations by looking up custom SKUs from orders instead of inventory.
Smart Configuration Logic - “IF / THEN” work flows that employ skip-logic, to enable:
Exposed to customer Ecommerce & Portal web sites - Let customers self-configure their own builds on your website by exposing the configurator. This can include an “Add to Cart” option, creating sales orders within BizAutomation.
Dynamic Price Roll-up - Base the final configured prices on a roll-up of items selected, which can include list, cost, and other price calculations.
Routing - Define detailed routing templates including instructions, build sequence, estimated completion time, etc.. which can be pre-assigned to shop-floor staff based availability, and even skills grading.
Work Centers - Add groups of people that perform a specific step in the manufacturing process to a work-center.
Labor Tracking Clock-In / Clock-Out - During route building tasks, workers can clock-in to record build time, and clock-out when build is complete. Managers can also set work schedules in order to compare hours worked against hours assigned, as well as to determine capacity availability.
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