Reserve and Issue Parent Materials—Key Exercise

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Create Multilevel Repair Shop Orders

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to create multilevel repair shop orders.

  1. If you have not done so already, create multilevel repair shop orders.

General exercise for Create Multilevel Repair Shop Orders

Main Exercises

Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to reserve and issue parent materials of multilevel repair shop orders.

Windows:
Shop Order

When reserving parent materials to a multilevel repair shop order, it is necessary to reserve the full quantity in order to start multilevel repair process. If the parent part is lot/batch-tracking-enabled, then all parent parts will have to be reserved from a single lot/batch number.

Reserve Parent Materials for a Multilevel Repair Shop Order

  1. Open the Shop Order window and query for order number ML1.
  2. Release the shop order and go to the Materials tab.
  3. Right-click on the material record and then click on Manual Reservations. This will open the Reservations window.
  4. Create a new line in the table and get the List of Values for the Location field.
  5. Select the record with S-1 as the serial number, click OK and save the record.
  6. Refresh the Shop Order window and verify that the Multilevel Repair Structure tab is enabled since you have completely reserved the parent materials.
  7. Repeat the steps 1-6 for the shop order ML2 as well. There you have to reserve the parent where lot/batch number is LOT-1. Make sure that you reserve two parent parts this time.

Note: In an event where more than one as-built revision exists for a specific serial number attached to the reserved parent part, the structure with the highest number of parent as-built revisions is shown in the Multilevel Repair Structure tab. Therefore in this case, the lot/batch number of the parent part is ignored.

Un-reserve Parent Materials for a multilevel Repair Shop Order

  1. Open the Shop Order window and query for order number ML1.
  2. Open Materials tab.
  3. Right click on the material record and then click on Unreserve. Click Yes to the information message and then it gives you a warning message of removing component replace data. This means, if you have done some structure changes, those changes will not be take in to effect once you un-reserve the parent material. Click OK.
  4. Reserve the parent material again as in the previous exercise to proceed with issue.

Issue Parent Materials for a Multilevel Repair Shop Order

  1. Open the Shop Order window and query for order number ML1.
  2. Right-click in the header and then click Material Actions/Issue. This will open the Enter criteria for Issue dialog box.
  3. Select Select All Reserved Material and click OK.
  4. Repeat the steps 1 to 3 for the shop order ML2 as well.

Note: You may also use the right mouse button option Manual Issue from Materials tab.

Un-issue Parent Materials for a multilevel Repair Shop Order

  1. Open the Shop Order window and query for order number ML1.
  2. Right-click in the header and then click Material Actions/Manual Unissue. This will open the Manual Unissue Shop Order window.
  3. Select the record in the table, right-click and then click Location to Unissue. This will open the Location to Unissue window.
  4. Enter 1 in the Qty to UInissue field and save the record. Then it gives you a warning message of removing component replace data. This means that if you have done some structure changes those changes will not be take into effect once you un-issue the parent material. Click OK.
  5. Repeat the exercises Reserve Parent Materials for a Multilevel Repair Shop Order and  Issue Parent Materials for a multilevel Repair Shop Order for shop order ML1.