[OFBiz] Users - manufacture experiences

[Jacopo Cappellato]

Hans,

now I've fixed also the searches by date in the MRP event page (rev 4670).
Thanks for your bug report.

Jacopo


Hans Bakker wrote:
> Hi Jacopo,
> 
> let me first say that i am very impressed with this component. I did not
> yet look internally, only as a user but it seems that most of the
> production functions are present. A great job! I will do a presentation
> to the potentional customer this week (wendesday) and i am confident
> that i will make a good impression.
> 
> I tried what you have listed below and it is working fine, however a few
> remarks:
> 1. when the production runs are generated and the system is missing a
> routing for a product, no message is given back to the user and no run
> is generated, only a tiny message appears in the log.
> 2. As you mention all runs inclusive lower level runs are generated that
> is very good and  the date/times within a run for every step are
> calculated, however using the submission date as the start for all runs
> (and not using the estimated end date of the order) although the
> dependent productionruns should be done first.
> Am i right if i say that the timeplanning for runs using certain fixed
> assets and dependent runs are not implemented yet?
> 3. An integation with the catalog component would be nice for the BOM's
> i.e. list a bom from the product list.
> 4. To be sure all routings and BOM's are there an manufacturing overview
> page for a product with routings and BOM's of dependant products would
> be nice..
> 
> In the MRP option i asked to have events listed from a certain date but
> it looked like it was listed all items from the start.
> 
> I will do some more tests today and tomorrow....
> 
> thank you very much for your work, hopefully i can contribute in the
> future...
> 
> Regards,
> Hans
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 11:44 +0100, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
> 
>>Hi Hans,
>>
>>this is correct; when you manually create a production run, only the 
>>first level in BOM is considered.
>>Then, if you run MRP, the requirements for production runs (for the 
>>subcomponents etc) will be generated. Please note that the MRP will 
>>create requirements only if a ProductFacility record is present for a 
>>given product (you can edit it in the "facility" tab of the 
>>catalog->product's pages). If you accept the requirements, the 
>>production runs will be created.
>>
>>To make the system work as you want (i.e. create all the production runs 
>>needed to create a finished product in one step) you have to:
>>
>>1) create a sales order for the finished product
>>2) create a sales shipment and add the order item to it as a shipment 
>>plan item
>>3) once the shipment plan status is put to "scheduled" the shipment plan 
>>will be available under the "shipment plan" menu in the manufacturing 
>>component
>>4) from there you can print a report to analyze the stock levels of the 
>>raw materials needed to manufacture the product and then you can create 
>>all the production run in one step.
>>5) if you go to the order view page you'll see that a production run is 
>>linked to the order item related to the finished product you need to 
>>manufacture
>>6) in the top of the production run pages you'll see that the production 
>>run is linked to other production runs (the '*' symbol means that the 
>>production run needs to be completed before the actual production run).
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Jacopo
>>
>>
>>Hans Bakker wrote:
>>
>>>Hi Jacopo,
>>>
>>>I am trying to use the manufactoring component to be able to show the
>>>system to the potentional customer. This customer produces
>>>autopartassemblies using stamps and welding- and other machines. These
>>>autopartassemblies are manufactured from raw material on rolls and from
>>>purchased parts (nuts is an example)
>>>
>>>Presently the planning of the production process is done on spreadsheets
>>>and they are looking to have a system which will help them doing:
>>>	1. The order: Receive the order with the required productnumber,
>>>quantity
>>>		 and required deliverydate which should enter the accepted order into
>>>the
>>>		 production planning.
>>>	2. The production planning: which machines should do what and in which
>>>order and
>>>		 at what date should the production process start to achieve the
>>>shippingdate.
>>>		Of course taking into account that machines can be busy for other
>>>orders and
>>>		 that products have subparts which need to be manufactured first.
>>>	3. Material resource planning (MRP): which parts and raw material
>>>should go to
>>>		 which machine or warehouse or should be ordered and which parts
>>>should be
>>>		 shipped to the customer.
>>>
>>>attached my bill of materials of the product 0163 i want to manufacture.
>>>It is an assembly part consisting out of :
>>>1. 0703S which consist out of a part 0703 which need to stamped first (1
>>>stamp machine) from raw matarial (RW-0703). Then a purchased nut (1920)
>>>will be welded onto it.
>>>2. 0659 which will be stamped using 4 stampmachines.
>>>
>>>I also created a routing for every product.
>>>
>>>I now started a production run but see that only the first level of the
>>>BOM is executed not taking into account that 0703S and 0659 need to be
>>>manufactured first or be in stock.
>>>
>>>am i missing here something? I am just thinking, perhaps i need to setup
>>>inventory?
>>>
>>>I have send you my current ofbiz data base ('data' directory) in a
>>>separate mail (can sent to others too on request, zipped size is about
>>>3Mb)
>>>
>>>regards,
>>>Hans
>>>
>>>