Alternative products can, for example, be defined if the quality of the produced end item varies. Instead of scrapping the non-conforming items you define them as alternative. The normal item and the alternative items are separated by different item codes.
By specifying item codes you define the alternative items that may be produced. If you, based on statistics or experience, know how many alternative products normally are produced along with the normal item, this can be stated in either quantity or percentage. If the assumed amount of alternative products is unknown to you, you can leave out the quantity/percentage and report the alternative quantities later on in the manufacturing order reception routine.
Note: You can also define alternative products for a manufacturing order. See Define alternative products for a manufacturing order.
- Select the Work with structures menu item.
- On the initial panel, select the item for which you want to define alternative products and click Change Alt prod.
- You access Structure maintenance, Alternative/co-products. Click Add.
- On the Structure maintenance, Alternative/co-product detail panel, complete the following fields:
- Alt product
- Enter the item code of the alternative item/co-product. Note: The item cannot be the same as the original item, and it must be of item type 1 (End item) or 2 (Sub-assembly).
- Percentage
- Enter the percentage of alternative items/co-products that may be produced instead of the original end item. When a manufacturing order is created for the parent item, the order quantity will be adjusted with the additional quantity of the alternative product(s).
For example: If the item planned quantity in unit is 100 and the percentage value is 10%, the quantity in structure unit for the alternative item/co-product will be 10.
- Note: If this field is blank, the alternative item/co-product will be available in the manufacturing order reception routine, but no planned reception quantity will be calculated.
- Quantity
- Enter the number of alternative items/co-products that may be produced instead of the original end item. When a manufacturing order is created for the parent item, the order quantity will be adjusted with the additional quantity of the alternative product(s).
- Quantity in structure unit on the manufacturing order is calculated as follows:
- Note: If this field is blank, the alternative item/co-product will be available in the manufacturing order reception routine, but no planned reception quantity will be calculated.
- Divide costing
- This field is only displayed and mandatory when Alt product method is selected as Share. Indicate how the product costing value for the original item should be reduced from the total product costing value by selecting one of the following values: 1 (Share), 2 (Fixed value) or 3 (None).
Define either a percentage or a quantity for the alternative product:
| Order qty in unit * Quantity in unit / batch quantity = Quantity in structure unit |
If you choose to enter quantities/percentages, the alternative products must either all be defined with a quantity or with a percentage. You cannot mix the use of quantities/percentages.
Click OK then exit the routine.
See Receive alternative products from a manufacturing order for information about the reception of the alternative products.
Related topics
- About setting up item structures for produced items
- Set up a bill of material for a produced item
- Set up a bill of routing for a produced item
- Copy an item structure
- Change a bill of material
- Change a bill of routing
- Define by-products in a bill of material
- Renumber bill of materials and bill of routings
- Mass-update an item structure
- Define conformity criteria for an item structure
- Define quality control values for an item structure
- Delete an item structure
- About manufacturing order creation/maintenance using the manufacturing order entry routine
- About receiving manufactured items