Multi-Site Planning Part—Basic Data and Requirements Exercises

IMPORTANT
It is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain you 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.

Basic Data Setup

Internal Customer Purchased Inventory Part

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to enter the purchase part by entering it as an inventory part. The purchase part is automatically created when entering the inventory part.

Windows:
Inventory Part

  1. Enter a purchased inventory part with the part number XX-58-130 (replacing XX with your initials) and the description Hot Racing Wheel on site 1.
  2. Enter your user ID as the planner.
  3. Use PCS as the unit of measure.
  4. Enter 100 USD as the estimated material cost.
  5. It is advisable to enter default locations (arrival, quality assurance, and picking location) for the inventory part.

General exercise for Purchased Inventory Part

Internal Supplier Manufactured Inventory Part

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to enter a manufactured inventory part at the internal supplier, corresponding to the purchased part at the internal customer.

Windows:
Inventory Part

  1. Enter a manufactured part with the part number XX-58-130 (replacing XX with your initials) and the description, Hot Racing Wheel on site 2.
  2. Enter your user ID as the planner.
  3. Use PCS as the unit of measure.
  4. Enter 70 USD as the estimated material cost.

General exercise for Manufactured Inventory Part

Main Exercise

Purpose: The purpose of this lesson is to connect your purchase parts to the corresponding supplier, and establish it as a multi-site planned supplier for purchase part.

Windows:
Supplier for Purchase Part

Defining a Multi-Site Planning Part

  1. Create a new record (F5).
  2. Enter a new combination of the hot racing wheel XX58-130 and supplier Internal Site 2 (102).
  3. Enter a price of 100 USD.
  4. Select the Multi-site Planned Part check box.         
  5. Save your changes (F12).