Raw Materials - Prototype Build

  • 12 October 2021
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G
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We are dealing with raw material lead times that have gone from less than 2 months to a year +.  We have a new item we are working on for a customer, and are in the process of building a prototype of the item.  We would like our MRP/MPS process to pick up the new raw material requirements, but we do not have a full parts list from Engineering yet.  Since the lead times have ballooned in the past year for raw materials, we were hoping to get a jump on the planning requirements and get them ordered well ahead of when we will need them.  90% of the required raw materials are currently used on another item we have within our manufacturing processes.  The 10% remaining are the components unique to this prototype.

Does anyone know of any modelling scenario or process within Epicor that would be able to help us determine our material requirements for this new item we are working on?  Possibly even a third-party add-in to Epicor would be an option, depending on cost.

Thanks.

Glenn Owers Sr. Business Analyst Safran Electronics & Defense Canada Peterborough, ON Canada Version: 2021.2..23

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mwilson
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You can craft a TBD part number to be used in the blank spots in your method (possibly revision PP for PPAP or revision EN for Engineering prototype) where you don’t yet know what the material or assembly will be in that portion of the engineering.  You can even get more specific like TBD-WheelAssy and TBD-StrutAssy for part numbers of the material or assembly.

 

When manually issuing materials to a JobMtl record, Epicor will allow any part number to be issued.  There are people that will swear this isn’t true but I’ve done it.  So if you create a parent job with TBDs in it, you can take it so far as building FAI products, and issue the actual part(s) used to the TBD job material records.  Try this in Test, making sure Epicor properly captures the hours and material costs of FAI or PPAP jobs.  Of course, after Engineering comes through with rev A, you would start building to it.  But if an existing rev PP job was already in WIP,  you could complete it with manual material issuing.

..Monty. Monty Wilson, Vice-President North America, Epicor Users Group
G
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Thanks @mwilson  for the information.  I have passed this onto our Operations group for their review.

Glenn Owers Sr. Business Analyst Safran Electronics & Defense Canada Peterborough, ON Canada Version: 2021.2..23

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