Production Selection Single Dialog Workspace

Use this workspace to create production selections for Bills of Materials (BOMs) with production control.

You use production selections in the BOM Production workspace.

Maconomy's BOMs are produced in the following way: The BOM header (the BOM itself) is referred to as the finished item, and the BOM parts are referred to as the raw materials. The BOM is thus a kind of recipe. If you want to create recipes at several levels, you must create a production transaction for every level. You can place finished items and raw materials in the same warehouse or in different warehouses, but all raw materials must be in the same warehouse. In addition, you must assign both the raw materials warehouse and the finished items warehouse to the same company. The recipe can contain raw materials that do not have inventory control.

When you create a production selection, Maconomy checks that the inventory volume of the finished item, minus the order and backorder volumes, including existing production volume, plus an item purchase order volume, in the selected inventory is below or at the reorder point. If it is, Maconomy suggests a production to bring volumes up to the maximum inventory volume for the given item in the given warehouse. Maconomy always suggests a quantity that is divisible by the item's smallest production unit.

If the Inventory Profile field has a value in the sub-tab of the information card of an item, Maconomy calculates the available stock as the current stock plus entered receipts minus entered shipments in the period from today to the end of the delivery horizon. Maconomy calculates the delivery horizon as today's date plus the time of delivery specified for the item in question in the sub-tab of the Item Information Card workspace. Maconomy considers the inventory profile when you create a production selection. Maconomy suggests producing the quantity needed for the item to be at the maximum stock level at the end of the delivery horizon, thus avoiding the production of items for orders that are delivered after the delivery horizon. Maconomy always suggests a quantity that is divisible by the minimum production unit of the item.

If you select the Discontinued field on an item information card, the item in question is not included in the production selection.

A production selection consists of a production transaction that has not been approved and for which you have not reserved raw materials. The production volume is not added up until you reserve the items in the BOM Production workspace.

A production transaction can include several finished items, but you can only complete the production if all of the finished items in the transaction are being produced. If you want to handle the production of a finished item separately, you can create one transaction per finished item.

The company to which the finished items warehouse is assigned is automatically specified as responsible for the production transactions that are created as a result of the production selection. Therefore, Maconomy automatically assigns to each transaction the next available number in the transaction number series specified for the company of the finished items warehouse.

When you click OK, Maconomy creates a production transaction for the target group.