Use this function to record the consumption of a group of materials either on a work order or for a bill of materials (BOM) (without a work order).

Prerequisites

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Screen management

This function is customized to the needs of your organization and your processes. The transaction you select determines the way in which you enter information and what information is displayed and printed.

If only one transaction has been set up you are not offered a choice, the default entry screen is displayed. The Material tracking plan function contains a header information section into which you enter your selection (or filtering) criteria. The material tracking details will be built from the reference dates you provide.

Entry screen

Header information

Use this section to filter or select the materials to be issued:

  • Work order. This range is only available if the tracking type 'WO' is planned by the transaction.
  • Released product. Use this range to search on work orders.
  • BOM. Use this range to search on products instead of work orders.
  • Material. Use this range to search on work orders and products (BOMs).

Material issue grid

The columns displayed in the Material issue grid or table and the order in which they are displayed is determined by the selected entry transaction.

The entry transaction also determines the values for the consumed quantities and the quantities remaining to be issued.

The available columns depends on the type of tracking to be carried out:

  • Posting date. Today's date is the default date. You can enter an earlier date than today but not a later date. The stock issues are carried out on the entered date. The system will validate that the entry falls in a period for which stock updates are authorized.
  • The tracking type, the work order code, the BOM code.
  • Consumed quantity and closure flag.

Specific actions

Specific actions

Error messages

In addition to the generic error messages, the following messages can appear during the entry :

The end range is less than the start date

Validation message on entry of selection by range.

Date greater than the current date

This message is displayed if the tracking date entered is greater than the current date.

A material is out of stock and prevents the tracking of this WO (XXXXX)

This message is displayed when creating the tracking for a work order where a material is out of stock and the Release if shortage setup is set to 'No' in the product-site record.

It is only possible to track a WO with the status "FIRM"

This message is displayed if the status of the work order is not set to 'Firm'.

Incomplete allocation Tracking impossible

This message is displayed if the work order is not at a minimum allocated globally and the MKTALLMGT general setup, Mandatory allocation to the WO, is set to 'Yes'.

The WO is not printed: Tracking impossible

This message is displayed if the production folder has not been printed and this is mandatory for production to start (according to the DOSFAB general setup).

Incomplete Work Order: Tracking impossible

This message is displayed if the work order is not complete (only materials or only operations) and the WO management plans to complete this order before releasing the production.

Excluded line

This message is displayed if an attempt is made to track an excluded material.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX : Mandatory manual tracking

This message is displayed if an attempt is made to automatically track a material with serial numbers or with an immediate stock issue method and a transaction that prohibits the automatic stock issue for this type of material (strict manual issue). XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX can take the following values:

Material managed with serial no.

Material with strict manual stock issuing method.

Not enough stock for this material and negative stock prohibited:

This message is displayed when controlling the consumed quantity of material compared to the available stock.

Insertion impossible

The entry transaction can limit the maximum number of lines in the grid. This message is displayed if an attempt is made to add a line when the grid is full.

Material already present in the tracking for the same operation

This message is displayed when adding an unplanned material if the product is already present in the materials to be tracked table.

BOM does not exist!

Error message in BOM control mode.

Tracking unexpected material on a versioned product

This warning is displayed if this product (BOM) or this work order is for a product that is version-managed and you have chosen to add a new component to it. Click Cancel to abandon your action. To add the new component, click OK. You will not be prevented from adding the component if you need to.

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This warning is displayed if this product (BOM) is version-managed and you have chosen to add a new component to it. Click Cancel to abandon your action. To add the new component, click OK. You will not be prevented from adding the component if you need to.

Tables used

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