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[Craig Koloske]

Good morning GPUG Community. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to report Routings while a Manufactured Good travels through it’s sequence of Routings? For example, if an items passes through 3 Routings/Worcenters, we would like to systematically process the completion of those Routings as they occur so that we then can identify where jobs are and what’s been completed. Currently, all Routings appear unfinished until the final MO Receipt Entry is performed. We’re running GP2013.

Thank you.

Craig

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Craig Koloske
Top Shelf Manufacturing, LLC
Tracy CA
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[David Joosten]

We do this with a multi step BOM. Each step in the routing ends in product in the BOM and that is tehn used as a component in the next BOM. This does mean that you have a few stock items in the WIP process, but it does mean that you can have a MO for each step that can be completed as each step in the route is completed. It also make period and year end stock counts much easier as the items are represented in inventory as normal.

This probably would not work for every case, but maybe an option.

Regards,

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David Joosten
Enterprise Architect
Premier FMCG (Pty) Ltd
Waterfall City
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[Peter Adams]

Have you tried utilizing the sequence complete action? If I’m reading your question correctly, you want to be able to see when a ‘step’ is complete in the routing and see where in the manufacturing process that item is?

One option was already mentioned, you could create an MO for every single step or workstation. Our company currently does this, but if you have several steps, it gets a little tricky especially if you have lot/serial tracked items and making sure that everything is linked.

Another option is to use the “sequence complete” function. Remember that your routing is like the recipe to make your finished good, and the sequences are the steps (or workstations where those steps occur) to complete that ‘recipe’.

You do have the ability to complete a sequence in order to record a data point that could be used to show the item has completed that step/work station and is currently in queue for the next. I’d prefer this method, it makes reporting for us much easier.

If you have your item accounts setup correctly as well, you shouldn’t have any issues with qtr end close

hopefully that makes sense

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Peter Adams
Systems Architect
Broadwind Energy
abilene TX
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[Tim Higgins]

In order to perform the “sequence complete” function that Peter suggested, you need to be tracking actual labor costs.  The screen where you would do this is the Time Card Entry screen (Manufacturing > Transactions > WIP > Time Card Entry).  If you are backflushing your labor hours, I do not think there is any default system functionality that allows you to mark sequences complete.  Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

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Tim Higgins
RSM US LLP
Baltimore, MD
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[Peter Adams]

Good point Tim, but I do believe you can still utilize that function since it isn’t collecting labor or applying any cost. Its just a time measurement used to capture the finish time for that step. We use both backflushed and non-backflushed sequences, both allowing us to utilize the start/stop function through a time matrix interface on the shop floor

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Peter Adams
Systems Analyst
Broadwind Energy
abilene TX
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