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Managing manufacturing involving assembling of parts to create a finished product « Walking Tree
Problem Statement
Any Business which is involved in manufacturing process needs to take care of the following things
- Raw Materials that are needed to produce the Finished Goods. The raw materials are either procured from the supplier or it is by-product of some other manufacturing process in the same plant.
- Composition of Raw Material to produce Finished Goods
- Different Steps (Production Stages) involved in Manufacturing
- Resources Needed for Manufacturing (Machine as well as human)
- Track inventory at different stage of the process
Depending on the nature of finished goods and raw material and resources used to prepare the finished goods, the manufacturing process varies to great extent. In this article I intend to focus on manufacturing involving assembling of parts to create a finished good. Following diagram depicts one of the simplest process involved during a manufacturing process where customer places an order and manufacturing happens in the production unit and the item gets shipped to the customer (the focus of this article is on the light blue area of the diagram):
As part of this article, I will be explaining how the business can make use of Adempiere to manage their common need during the manufacturing process – involving assembling of parts to create a finished product. I have tried to keep things very simple to ensure that you get the first level idea about Adempiere's capability to meet your manufacturing process automation need.
Scope of This Article
As part of this article, we will cover preparation of Bill of Materials (BOM, which will define the overall Composition of Raw Material), Steps in Manufacturing, Production of Finished Goods.
I am taking the use case for preparation of manufacturing of 'Music Set'. For this example, I have assumed that One Music Set Contains following Items
One Music Player
Two Headsets
One Adapter
I will demonstrate how to set up material and process required for creating a finished good, how to take an order and produce finished goods and how the inventory is updated during this process.
I have assumed that you have basic familiarity with standard Adempiere concepts like Product, Business Partner, Sales Order, Purchase Order, Inventory Review and other commonly used interfaces.
How Do We Do this in Adempiere?
Adempiere provides exhaustive set of functionality to manage simple as well as complex manufacturing processes. The steps listed in this section will allow you to be able to set-up manufacturing process where your prime responsibility is to assemble raw products to create finished product.
As stated earlier, I have taken an example of manufacturing of 'Music Set' to demonstrate how you can achieve your manufacturing need using Adempiere.
Create all the Raw Materials as products in Adempiere
Step(1) First Create 'Music Player'
Step(2) Mark this item as purchased (assuming that we procure raw material from outside)
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