Overview

To manage the Subcontract Assembly and Free Issue materials process, ProcessForce uses the following functions:

• Bill of Material to define the items to be assembled, type External
• Manufacturing Order to manage the inventory issues, receipts, and external WIP and WIP Variance journals
• Inventory can be manually picked or backflushed
• Inventory Transfers linked to the Manufacturing Order to move inventory from the central warehouse to the subcontractor warehouse
• Purchase Order and Goods Receipt PO for the service based on a Non-Inventory Item, linked to the Manufacturing Order for reference
• Automatic Goods Receipt PO when Subcontract production is booked
• Batch trace items are also managed via manual picking or backflushed, based on FIFO, FEFO, or FMFO
• Cost analysis - planned and actual