We fabricate some parts in house and others we buy. We have standard rules for which parts fall in either category; however, depending on lead time, workload, or other factors, we may decide to buy something we traditional make ourselves or vice versa. Our planning team makes this decision.
The issue we’re having is that a part can only be set up 1 way, so it always defaults to one or the other and then the part master has to be updated to get either the PO or job to produce as desired for the specific situation.
This isn’t working well for us. Because we do buy a lot of fabricated parts, they don’t stand out as an issue to our purchasing team and so once we make a decision one time to buy something we would normally fab, it tends to stay a purchased part. Does anyone have suggestions on how this could be handled better?