Sub-assemblies: their own work orders, costs through every level, tracing through every level
When a component is itself made here (it has a released BOM), a work order can raise that component's own work order for what is short, a BOM can be costed through every level, and a batch or serial can be traced through every level it went into or came from.
Where it is
- Manufacturing → Orders — Sub-assemblies on a work order
- Manufacturing → BOMs — Every level, under the routing
- Inventory → Traceability — Every level, under Manufacturing genealogy
A component is made here when it has its own BOM with a released revision.
Sub-assembly work orders
On a released work order, Sub-assemblies → Make the short ones looks at the order's materials. For each component that is made here and short of stock (the same shortage the order shows), it raises a draft work order for the shortfall, due when this order starts (else when it's due), at the same priority, linked to this order. Release it as usual. It isn't raised twice while one is still open. For the level below, do the same on the sub-assembly order. Each sub-assembly order says which order it feeds.
Every level of a BOM
On a BOM, Every level → Show the multi-level BOM lists the whole structure, indented. A component made here is costed from its own released BOM and routing (materials, labour, overhead, machine time and outside work, the same sums as the standard cost), not from its product cost. Where the two differ, the product cost is shown underneath so you can update it. Dollar figures need View costs. A BOM that includes itself stops at the loop.
Every level of genealogy
On Traceability, under Manufacturing genealogy, Made from, every level follows a batch or serial down through everything that went into it, to the mill heat numbers of the raw material. Used in, every level follows it up to everything it ended up in: the list for a recall.