Defining Alternate Components—Exercises

Basic Data Setup

IMPORTANT

If you are a student, it is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain your data integrity. If you work within any other site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that your data be isolated in your own site.

Inventory Part

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up the basic data required for running this particular functionality.

Windows:
Inventory Part

  1. If you have not yet already done so, copy all parts from Site 1 to your site using 200 as the value for Commodity Group 2.

General exercise for Copy Inventory Part

Product Structure

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up the basic data required for running this particular functionality.

Windows:
Product Structure

  1. If you have not yet already done so, copy Product Structure 20–250 to your site.
  2. Set the structure to status Buildable.
  3. Save your changes.

General exercise for Copy Structure

Inventory Location

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up the basic data required for running this particular functionality.

Windows:
Inventory Locations

  1. If you have not yet already done so, create a location for your site.
  2. Save your changes.

General exercise for Inventory Location

 

Main Exercise

Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to show you how to enter data for alternate components.

Windows:
Alternate Component
 Alternate Components
 Receive Inventory Part
Shop Order

Define Alternate Components 

  1. Open the Alternate Component window.
  2. Query for Part 20–351 on your site.
  3. Create a new row.
  4. Enter Substitution Sequence 1 and Alternate Part 20–351–1.  
  5. In the Qty per Component field, enter the quantity of components needed. The default is 1 (OK).
  6. Enter Substitution Sequence 2 and Alternate Part 20–351–2.
  7. In the Qty per Component field, enter the quantity of components needed. The default is 1 (OK).
  8. Open the Alternate Components window. Verify that your alternate component for the carburetor/fuel pump is displayed.

Note: To be able to see and understand how these alternate components can be used, you can create shop orders.f

  1. Open the Receive Inventory Part window.
  2. Query for parts 20-351-1 and 20-351-2. 
  3. Create a new line and enter qty so you have 4 pcs available in stock on any location (LOV) and save.
  4. If the Define Cost Structure dialog window opens and the table is empty, create a new line using cost bucket 110 and unit cost 100. 
    Note: This dialog will not open if you are using inventory valuation method standard cost and cost level cost per part and have a standard cost defined for your part.
  5. Open the Shop Order window.
  6. Create a new shop order for Part 20–250 (lot size 4).
  7. Select the row for Component 20–351 in the Material tab, right-click, and then click Alternate Component. This component will now be replaced.
  8. Release, reserve and issue the shop order.
  9. Perform steps 11–13 again, and analyze the result.  

    Note: You will now go back to the alternate component and restrict the usage of 20–351–2.
  10. Open the Alternate Component window.
  11. Query for Part 20–351 on your site.
  12. Restrict the 20–351–2 alternate component by entering 20–250 in the Parent Part column. Save. This means that Part 20–351–2 is the second alternative to Part 20–351, but only for shop orders that produce Parent Part 20–250. If Part 20–351 is included in any other structure , Part 20–351–1 is the only alternate component. If you have time, create a new structure with 20–351 as a component, and test this scenario. 

General exercise for Creating Shop Order