Design Engineering - Key Concepts and Procedures

• Description
• Defining the Corporate Structure
  • Reporting Hierarchy for Inventory and Manufacturing
  • Financial Information
  • Plants and Warehouses
  • Manufacturing and Distribution Inventory
  • Information Stored at the Warehouse Level
  • Planning By Plant
• Part Master File
  • Defining a Part
  • Conversation Flow
  • Types of Information
  • Minimum Required Information
• Batch Part Definition
  • Part Master Transaction File (DE095AL)
  • Updating the Transaction Files
  • Verifying Batch Part Updates
  • Adding Parts with Batch Part Maintenance
  • Part Master Transaction Files - Field Descriptions
• Part Status Code
• Part Type
  • System-Defined Part Types
  • Codes and Decodes
  • Defining Your Own Part Types
• Measuring Item Quantities
  • Units of Measure
  • Reference File
  • Batch Quantity
  • Considerations
• Product Classes and Subclasses
  • Default Values
  • Information Maintained and Reported by Class
  • Subclasses
• Inventory Classification
  • Accounting Code
  • Commodity Code
• Scrap and Variance Reporting
  • Scrap Option
  • Variance Options
• Cost Elements
  • Acquisition Flag
  • Cost Simulations
  • Cost Element Grouping
• Inventory Transactions
  • MRP Parts
  • JIT Parts
  • CONBON Cards
  • CONBON Information
• Setting Up Backflushing
  • Processing Options
  • Single Location Processing
  • Multiple Location Backflushing
• Lot Control
• Potency
  • Defining Potency
  • Creating a Potency-Controlled Environment
  • Defining a Part's Standard Potency
  • Defining the Potency of a Lot
  • Calculating Potent Units
  • Displaying Quantities in Potent or Standard Units
  • Changing Potency, and/or the Available for Planning Flag, and the Net Change Flag
  • Objects not Affected by the Potency Beginning Balance Calculations
• Production Planning and Scheduling
  • Production Type
  • Planning Information
  • Demand Code
  • Analyst Responsibility
  • Planning Policy Fields
  • Lead Time Information
  • Cumulative Lead Time
  • Time Fences
  • Yield and Scrap Factors
• Configured Part
• Bills of Material
  • Key Information
  • By-Products
  • Defining and Maintaining a Bill of Material
  • Batch Mode vs. Online Update Mode
  • Batch Mode vs. Online Update Mode (1)
  • Planning Bills of Material
  • Reference Bills of Material
• Product Structure Mass Change
  • Use
  • Considerations
• Engineering Control/Revision-Level Processing
• Replanning and Recosting Signals
  • Replanning
  • Recosting
• Container Management
  • Container Definition
  • Container Inventory Transactions
  • Considerations
• Customize System Processing
  • Modify Error Messages
• Initial Data Entry
  • Maintain Reference File Categories
  • Create Warehouse Calendars
• Define the Company Structure
  • Enter the Corporation Name
  • Define Companies within the Corporation
  • Define Plants, Distribution Warehouses, and Stock Locations
  • Change Information for a Plant
  • You cannot change a manufacturing warehouse from one plant to another.
  • Change Information for a Stock Location
  • Define Departments
  • Define Containers
• Define Parts
  • Define a Part
  • Use Batch Entry to Define Parts
  • Change the Part Master Information for a Part
  • Delete a Part
  • Enter Part Comments
• Maintain Related Items for a Part
• Maintain Part Costs
• Define Product Structures
  • Create a Product Structure
  • A product structure should be created for every manufactured and build-thru part. They can also be
  • Change a Product Structure
  • Delete a Product Structure
  • Enter Product Structure Comments
• Appendix A -- Company Structure Worksheet
• Appendix B -- Part Master Fields by Part Use
• Appendix C -- Conditions Required Before a

Reference

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