Hi,
Iam new to the forum so plz excuse me if any mistakes in my posts.
My client has castings business for which iam doing the project
My first problem is with multiple outputs i.e; he sends some 4 to 5 items as input in a work centre and gets 5 or 6 items as output. How to record this in navision. and how to fill firm planned prod. order
Also iam afraid of to which item i should define routing and BOM so that by the end of the day if i see prod. order - pre.calc report i can get the detailed report
I have searched in this forum abt this issue but i dint get detailed explaination anywhere.
Hi Sheethal
As standard Navision has a structure where a Bill of Material details teh inputs used to make a product, this is made and you get a product. Each works order, generally has one item that is made. The answer to your question depends upon your process. If the work centre is a staging point in the routing then the components output at this stage are WIP progressing to the final outcome. If however this is the end of production, then you have a slight issue. Nav as standard does not work this way. Yes you can construct a BOM with negative lines that reflect a form of output, but you need to verify the costing and the processing. There are add ons that deal with the vertical process sector where by and co products are normal, I have heard of two, Process 800 and Navimeat, but just by reading the forums, no experience of them.
The issue is that they are your client - you will hopefully already have done a scoping and analysis exercise, the gap fit analysis is done, and to be honest something as large as this would have been known in the presales cycle and therefore a plan must have been made to cover this off. If none of this was done then you have a few choices, heavily modify the system, try to develop a work around or buy add on software to meet the need.
The difficulty is that you know the client, you know what they need in detail and therefore you are the best person to answer your own question. Initially the question is irrelevant to software, it is understanding the business requirement, then as they have made the decision it is how best to apply that to the software. Remember again you are the expert in the software - that is what the client is paying to for.
Therefore you need to apply your knowledge of Nav to your knowledge of the client and come up with the solution. When you hit the odd issue or error this forum will be better placed to assist you, but what it cannot do is help you learn the Nav basics and then apply them to a client we have little knowledge of, it is just to difficult, and any answer you get would in reality raise further questions at the stage you are at. Sorry.
Thank u adam iam so impressed first of all i dont know that the experts in this forum are this much friendly.
Adam i have seen one more option as family is this useful to produce multiple outputs.
To say u frankly either my client or my company are not in a position to buy that vertical so is there any simple solution so that my requirement that is only manufacturing and not costing can be satisfied
Plz tell me if it is some what lengthy also.
Sorry if i ask any irrelevant question with ignorance
Hi
If you are looking at standard functionality then yes you can look at the family orders and see how they work for you, you can also look at the negative BOM appraoch, but it does come down to the structure and whether you are recording new items in between these stages, or if they are really production processes where they move between work centres for an end goal.
I cannot give you more on the families, they have not something I have ever used, and I have not used Nav itself for a while, so I suggest you read up on families and start to model your clients requirements on them and then post specific questions you have on the gap. Essentially though I do not believe there is any “simple” solution for you, and having no money rules out modifications, so you and your client have a very limited choice of options.