Any inventory item can be 'manufactured', following a sales order requirement or re-stock order, and if it is designated a manufactured item. You can order assemblies and manufacture or purchase their child requirements. You can monitor the assembly bill of material as it completes. Some other scenarios include:

• Unit of measure conversions: a manufactured item can be made from the same item held in different unit of measure (e.g. raw stock)
• An item made from more than one raw stock component
• Orders for 'service' items     

WRC Manufacturing

Manufacturing for WRC products uses process routes and detailed workcentre and workstation management. The manufacturing plant is configured by setting up workcentres and workstations, and can be setup and running in the shortest time. Some key features include:

• Quality Assurance -  Fullfull quality assurance objectives by providing process instructions at the right place and at the right time, both for work centres and processes, and by logging process data. The job numbering system also provides complete order traceability to the customer order. 
• Manufacturing Flexibility - By using part pairs to dynamically create bills of material, any part, sub assembly,assembly or product can be built, either to stock or to order.
• Finite Scheduling / Advance Scheduling ('WRC' applications only) -   WRC manufacturing provides powerful feed back on workcentre and workstation loading, using finite loading, which returns realistic realtime operation completion dates. This scheduling tool works at the lowest level of granularity, resulting in greater accuracy.

Components in WRC manufacturing can be seen in furthur detail:

• workcentres  describes how workcentres are used to organise production operations.
• scheduling  describes some of the basic principles used in building a production schedule.

Last updated: 1 July 2010