Setting Up Routing

Forza

Dear All Navision Expert,


My company is running NAV 4.0 SP1. We encountered a situation when we try to include Routings in our manufacturing setup. We try to setup the Prod BOM and Routings such that each Work Center in the production floor knows which components they should work on. I've devised a scenario below.

Work Center: WC1, WC2, WC3, WC4, WC5, WC6
Component: RAW1, RAW2, RAW3, RAW4

The Route that each component takes is as follow:
RAW1: WC1 > WC2 > WC3 > WC6
RAW2: WC1 > WC2 > WC3 > WC4 > WC6
RAW3: WC3 > WC5 > WC6
RAW4: WC2 > WC3 > WC4 > WC5 > WC6

Can anybody provide an idea on how to set this up in the Production BOM and Routings? And how will Routing Link Code comes into play?

Thanks a million.

ssingla

Hi Mukesh,

Please look in the issue.

Alex_Chow

When you setup routings in Navision, you're specifying the processes for that particular routing.

Once the routing and the production BOM is assigned to an item, you will need to link the routing steps (using the routing link code) to the production BOM lines.

Forza

Clarification:

All the raw material (RAW1 to RAW4) exist in the Production BOM of a particular finished good. They are all assembled together at the last Work Center (WC6). The challenge now is to use Navision to record the raw materials that each Work Center needs to work on.

As far as my understanding, Routings with "Type=Serial" in Navision assumes that all components pass through all work center. This I assume will not work for us unless customization is done. While Routings with "Type=Parellel" with allow the setting of the next work center without following the operation in a serial manner. But with the number of combination at hand, it might be a very complex routing at the end and it might be confusing to read them.

Anybody have a better solution?

Thanks a million.

Alex_Chow

1. So are your items to be produced in a serial manner or parellel?
2. When it gets to WC6, do you need all the components there at the same time?
3. Can your RAW1, RAW2, RAW3, RAW4 be sold individually? Do you make them to stock?
4. Why not make your RAW1-4 as a separate production BOM then combine them at the master production BOM?
5. Why not treat RAW1-4 as a phantom BOM?

Miklos_Hollender

I think your manufacturing process is quite different from the one Navision is designed for. It's mostly optimalized for snowball-like, assembly production when at each routing step they stuff more and more parts into the same poor finished product. Your process looks like not really an assembly, but some sort of processing - chemical or food industry or something like that.

So I'm not really sure you really should use Routings but actually what you could try to is the following. For RAW1-4 create a another Item which is a semi-finished product. Create the different Routings, their BOM's should contain their RAW counterpart and maybe additional materials. Then process it like usual and have also a finished product item which has semi-finished 1-4 in it's BOM and a single assembly step in it's routing.

If the semi-finished and the finished product Items are set Make-to-Order on the Item card and you create the production order from the sales order with Order menu, Planning and as a project order then all of them will be thrown into the same production order, which is handy, I think.

Probably it's a good idea to create these items and routings programatically. Also, you can just drop the whole idea and start a new development based on new tables for this non-standard route management - shouldn't be very hard, it doesn't seem to have some very complicated logic. Either of the two could work.

johnson_alonso

Dear Forza,
I guess to me that RAW1, feed to a certain routing. Let's say its routing 1, and RAW2, feed to another certain routing, let's say routing 2 etc or otherwise RAW1, produced from routing 1 (WC1 > WC2 > WC3 > WC6), RAW2, produced from routing 2 (WC1 > WC2 > WC3 > WC4 > WC6), etc..

If the first assumption is correct, You must look for add-on or made a big effort in development to make your production settings run in Navision.
My reasons to say that as follows:
1. Navision mfg is a job shop type that requires leveling items range from raw materials, sub-assembly (not semi-finished product, the term semi-finished product will lead to a confusing application, because it is not applied to non discrete system/company), finished product. This leveling forces us to use production BOM field and routing field in the item card and makes your current requirement must follow it.
2. RLC (routing link code) could help a little but you can't record run time, set up time, scrap etc.


Rgds,