Reply from ChrisO on Jul 17 at 1:04 PM The good thing is that you have restricted sales order qty to a minimum, and multiples, of 500.
One business card requires 0.01 of a gang sheet (100 cards per sheet). So have 0.01 as the BoM item qty for the gang sheet in each business card BoM (you'll need a UoM that allows decimals - EA doesn't normally).
Say a customer's (min.) order of 500 is 3 x 100 and 4 x 50 cards - presumably each card type has its own material master and BoM, so 7 different types in this example. Create 7 production orders and schedule them for the same time - that will require ((3x100)+(4x50) x 0.01) sheets lineside at the start of those orders.
Unless I misunderstand your set up....?
Hopethishelps
ChrisO
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From: Vlad Selsky
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 3:35 PM
Subject: Production Order for Gang of Products
I'm very new to PP but have strong background in MM, WM, and MRP/Kanban.
My company has a custom production planning system that assumes infinite inventory (make to stock). The raw material is brought to line side via kanban and in SAP, we goods issue out the raw material to a cost center.
Let's say hypothetically we put in SAP PP and move towards a make to order scenario. We are in the printing industry and will print or embroider items like hats, t-shirts, and pens. The BOM is very simple. Let's say 1 pen finished good equals 1 pen raw material for the sake of this question. This seems like a simple production order. In logistics, it will be easy for us to aggregate the production request for X pens and bring a box of them over to line side.
What is unclear to me is a more complicated finished product like business cards. Say we print 100 business cards on a single gang sheet. And of these 100 business cards, say it represents 30 customer orders (1 customer can have 1 business card on that sheet, another customer can have 10). The production job is for 500 business cards, so there will be 5 gang sheets. Customers can order business cards in quantities of 500, 1000, 2000, etc.
Correct me if I'm wrong. Here we still have single production order, per single customer order, with quantity of 500 business cards? In terms of the BOM and figuring out how much paper to bring to line side, how would SAP aggregate all the production orders in such a way to figure out that 5 gang sheets are required for this production run? The next production job could be for customers with 2000 business cards, so 20 sheets are required, etc.
Thanks, Vlad |
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