Implementing Manufacturing and Materials Management: From Empty Plant to Costed Work Order · Module 8 · Item Structures
What breaks
Lesson 85 of 188 · 2 min
Seven cases, and two of them are the same cause wearing different clothes. One. "The structure load rejected most rows." The component items do not exist. Sequence. Two. "The work order shows the wrong components." Effectivity dates — check what date the work order is using, and it is not always today. Three. "We always run short of one component." Yield not configured. Four. "Standard cost is lower than actual, consistently." Same root cause: yield and scrap not in the structure. The shop floor reports a material shortage; Finance reports a cost variance; neither department mentions the other, and the fix is one field. Five. "The BOM does not match what the line actually builds." The engineering version, not the manufacturing version — and it is usually discovered by an operator rather than reported as a defect. Six. "Circular reference error." A part contains itself somewhere in the hierarchy; trace…
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