Implementing Manufacturing and Materials Management: From Empty Plant to Costed Work Order · Module 10 · Work Definitions
Operation items and supply types
Lesson 100 of 188 · 14 min
Pull the structure components into operations and assign each component to the operation where it is actually consumed. Set the supply type per component — push, assembly pull, operation pull, bulk, phantom — and show the effect of each: where the material comes from, and when. Set the supply subinventory override where needed, then show a component consumed at the last operation versus the first, and the WIP value difference. Supply type is the most operationally consequential setting in this module. Push means somebody must issue it deliberately. Backflush means the system consumes it on completion. Pushing everything creates enormous transaction load. Backflushing everything means inventory accuracy depends entirely on the BOM being right. Both extremes matter, because the client will ask for one of them. The practical recommendation: backflush high-volume, low-value, reliably-consumed components. Push expensive, serialized, lot-traced or variable-consumption ones. Which operation a component is assigned to determines when…
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In this module: Module 10 · Work Definitions
- 1The manufacturing model decisionFree preview
- 2What a work definition contains
- 3Work definition names and versions
- 4Building operations
- 5Operation items and supply types
- 6Operation resources
- 7Validating against the shop floor
- 8Outside processing
- 9Loading work definitions in bulk
- 10Costing implications
- 11What breaks
- 12Lab: build the route the plant actually runs