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Note: The function documented here is for use in ATO environments only.

Create unique configuration items complete with bills of material and routings (based on the model bill and routing) to fulfill customer orders for manufactured configurations. A single-level cost rollup is performed for each new configuration to establish accurate standard costs that are posted to cost of goods sold. See: AutoCreate Configuration Items and Final Assembly Orders.

Canned Configurations must exist to successfully use the Match and Reserve functionality. Canned configurations are created when the AutoCreate Configuration process is run. This process will run each time an ATO model line is entered.

Attention: Canned configurations will only be created if the profile option BOM: Check for Duplicate Configurations is set to Match and Reserve.

   To autocreate configuration items and final assembly orders:

1. Navigate to the Submit Requests window. See: Submitting Requests.

2. To autocreate a configuration item based on an order number, enter the order number. Otherwise skip the Sales Order Number field.

3. If you chose not to enter an order number, enter the number of release offset days for the configuration items. To minimize the impact of order changes, you can delay creating configuration items. You can create configuration items for only those sales orders where the estimated discrete job release date is within the number of days you specify.

4. If you chose not to enter an order number, enter the organization in which you want to autocreate configuration items.

5. Indicate whether to compute the standard lead time for each new configuration item by actually scheduling a test WIP job to be completed on the requirement date. If this is disabled, (the default), the configuration item lead time value is derived from the value of the base model.