IMPORTANT |
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. |
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to create the required data that will be used in the Discrete Manufacturing exercises. This sets up data for your site that only needs to be done once for Discrete Manufacturing course exercises.
General exercises for Overview of Discrete Manufacturing Data
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to set up inventory picking locations for running functionality isolated by site.
Windows:
Inventory Locations
Site | Location No | Warehouse | Location Name | Location Group |
Your Site | 1 | Main | Main Warehouse | 30 |
Your Site | 1A | Secondary | Secondary Warehouse | 30 |
Your Site | 2C | Sub | Subassembly inv | 30 |
General exercise for Entering Inventory Locations
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to verify that you have enough parts to complete the main exercises.
Windows:
Inventory Part Currently On Hand
Receive Inventory Part
Site | Part Number | Part Description | Quantity Available for Manufacturing |
Your Site | 21-340 | Radiator | 10 |
Your Site | 21-341 | Thermostat | 10 |
Your Site | 21-342 | Water Pump | 10 |
Your Site | 21-343 | Radiator Hose Set | 10 |
Your Site | 21-344 | Cooling Line Assy | 10 |
General exercise for Receiving Inventory Part
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to create the shop order that will be used in the main exercise below.
Windows:
Shop Order
Note: This exercise creates the shop order used in the main exercise below. The shop order will need to be processed to the specific state for the exercise.
Site | Part Number | Part Description | Lot Size | Shop Order Changes | Shop Order Number |
Your Site | 21-240 | Cooling System | 10 | Issue the component material, report the operations, and receive all 10 cooling systems into inventory. |
General exercise for Creating Shop Orders Manually
Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to unreceive material that has been received into inventory.
Windows:
Inventory Part Currently On Hand
Shop Order
Inventory Transactions History
There is a shop order for 10 cooling systems that were received into inventory by mistake. You want to unreceive the cooling systems and verify that resulting inventory values reflect the removal of those production parts from inventory.
Site | Part Number | Description | Total Qty Available |
Your Site | 21-240 | Cooling System |
Note: The quantity to be unreceived on a shop order does not have to be the entire lot size or the total quantity received into inventory.