Entering a Co- and By-Products List

Access the Co/By Product Revision form.

Co By

Enter a code that distinguishes standard components or ingredients from co-products, by-products, and intermediates. Co-products are (concurrent) end items as the result of a process. By-products are items that can be produced at any step of a process, but were not planned. Intermediate products are items defined as a result of a step but are automatically consumed in the next step.

Generally, intermediates are nonstock items and are only defined steps with a pay-point for reporting purposes. Standard components (Discrete Manufacturing) or ingredients (Process Manufacturing) are consumed during the production process. Values are:

C: Co-products.

B: By-products.

I: Intermediate products.

Blank: Standard components or ingredients.

Co/By Product

Enter the item number for the co-product, by-product, or intermediate.

Output Quantity

Enter the quantity of finished units that you expect this bill of material or routing to produce. This field enables you to specify varying quantities of components based on the amount of finished goods produced. For example, 1 ounce of solvent is required per unit up to 100 units of finished product.

However, if 200 units of finished product is produced, 2 ounces of solvent are required per finished unit. In this example, you would set up batch quantities for 100 and 200 units of finished product specifying the proper amount of solvent per unit.

Co/By Branch

Represents a branch/plant or work center, usually defined as a business unit.

The default value comes from the Default Location and Printers table.

Feat Cost % (feature cost percentage)

Enter a percentage that the Simulate Cost Rollup program uses to calculate the cost of a feature or option item as a percentage of the total cost of the parent.

Enter the percentage as a whole number, for example, enter 5 percent as 5.0.

This value is used in Cost Rollup to calculate what percentage of the cost, up to and including the operation, that the co-product and by-product comes out of, is apportioned to the co-products and by-products at that step.

The total of all percentages at an operation cannot exceed 100 percent. All percentages at the last operation must total 100 percent.

Resource % (resource percent)

Enter a number that indicates what percent of the ingredients should be issued separately to co-products and by-products.

This is used to issue ingredients separately to co-products and by-products at work order completion, rather than a total issue for each ingredient.

For co-products and by-products at the final operation, their resource percent must total 100 percent to issue all ingredients.