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Subassemblies within Assemble to Order
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Subassemblies within Assemble to Order
Help! When selling an item that is ATO and it has subassemblies within it that are also ATO, has anyone found the trick (or is there a trick) to be able to post the ATO item during shipping and have it build the subassemblies during that process as well? If not, has anyone found an alternate path as to how to create assembly orders for the ATO subs that are not on hand? Thanks in advance!
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The out-of-the-box alternate path is to use planning for the nested orders.
To do this in shipping would require an extension… it should drop to the lowest-level child items, copy the same header as the parent order would use, reserve the output for the next level up from each order, and execute everything needed on one level at a time. Then, when the shipment is posted, the parent will have the inventory it needs for the first-level child assembly items.
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Out-of-the-box, a nested ATO component will not have an Assembly Order created. It would be better in that case to set the Item as ATS with a Reordering Policy of Order, which will allow Planning to trigger the creation of the Assembly Order. In this case the ATS order would need to be complete and output into Inventory before the Sales Order is shipped.
However, you could also use the standard “Explode BOM” capability (Lines > Functions > Explode BOM) to bring the 2nd level ATO components up to the top Assembly Order, which would trigger their consumption upon shipment of the Sales Order.
Finally, you could write an Extension to either Explode BOM OR create the ATS Sub Assembly Order upon creation of the ATO parent. This would reduce your clicks.
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