Upgrade Assemblies (Oracle Work in Process)


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Upgrade Assemblies

Business Example

You are a computer manufacturer that wants to upgrade some printed circuit boards from an older revision to the now current revision. You have decided to upgrade these assemblies from revision A to revision C on a non-standard discrete job.

Assumptions

You have 100 revision A printed circuit board assemblies in a non-nettable spare parts subinventory. From past upgrade efforts, your manufacturing engineers expect 90% success in the upgrade.

For this upgrade effort, your manufacturing engineers have defined an alternate bill of material for the revision C of the printed circuit board. This alternate bill, named UpgradeToC, includes all the items that are required for revision C that are not in revision A. In other words, this alternate bill is the upgrade kit.

Since upgrades such as this occur frequently, your manufacturing engineers have defined an alternate routing, named Upgrade. This routing includes all the standard printed circuit board upgrade operations including remove, replace, test1, and test2.

Setup

Use the Discrete Jobs window to define a non-standard discrete job for revision C of the printed circuit board assembly with a job quantity of 100. Since you expect that 90% success when the rework is complete, enter 90 in the MRP Net Quantity field rather than the job quantity. Select an asset type non-standard accounting class since you are building up an asset.

Enter the printed circuit board and the Upgrade alternate routing into the Routing Reference and Alternate Routing fields respectively to schedule the start and end dates of the job and to create the WIP operations and resources. Enter the printed circuit board assembly and the UpgradeToC alternate bill in the Bill Reference and Alternate Bill fields respectively in order to get the upgrade kit components onto the non-standard discrete job.

Use the Material Requirements window to manually create the component requirement for the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board will likely be a push component at the remove operation. For the printed circuit board, do not check MRP Net since you do not want to create demand for items that are supplied from a non-nettable subinventory. Since the upgrade kit components are supplied from nettable subinventories, check MRP Net for these items.

Print the Discrete Job Pick List Report and release the job using the Discrete Jobs window.

Transactions

Use the WIP Material Transactions window to issue the printed circuit board and upgrade kit components to the non-standard discrete job.

Use the Move Transactions window to move the printed circuit boards from operation to operation and to charge resources and overheads. You can also use the Move Transactions window to scrap unfixable printed circuit boards.

Use the Completion Transactions window to complete the finished Revision C printed circuit boards into a nettable finished goods inventory.

Costing

When all the printed circuit boards are completed or scrapped, the job status changes to Complete. Your cost accountants can run a Discrete Job Value Report to check all the charges.