Structures and Routings

Select this to be able to change the parent item to maintain.

Select this to view multimedia objects defined against the selected operation.

Select this to view multimedia objects defined against the selected component.

This enables you to import single level components from a flat ASCII file using the Structure Import program.

Select this to exit the program.

Select this to assign a new operation to the parent stock code.

You can add a maximum of 999 operations to each bill of materials structure.

Select this to change the details of the currently highlighted operation assigned to the parent stock code.

Select this to copy operations from another stock code into the current structure (see Copy Operations).

Select this to use the Admin Notepad Editor (Monospaced Text) program to view custom form information for the currently highlighted operation.

Sales Order entry always uses route 0. Therefore to sell Kit type items, route 0 must be used.

This defaults to the Default route indicated against your Preferences.

Select this to maintain the proposed structure and routing.

A warning message is displayed if the stock item's structure and routing has not been enabled by an ECO. If you select to ignore the warning and continue, then this option is disabled (i.e. you cannot maintain the proposed structure and routing).

Indicate the unit of measure to use for the parent if you defined units of measure other than the stocking unit of measure against the component stock item in the Stock Code Maintenance program.

Note that child nodes must be expanded manually by clicking on them. This option merely re-expands the nodes previously manually expanded and does not expand all levels of the tree view.

If all nodes are expanded, then the entire tree view is exported. If only some nodes are expanded, then only the information for the expanded nodes is exported.

Assign an operation to the parent stock code. If you enter an operation that already exists, you can select the Add function to insert this as a new operation.

You cannot add an operation for an item defined as a Phantom part (Stock Codes). Operations must be attached to the stocked materials.

When an operation is inserted against a notional part, the program re-sequences the operation number defined as offsets against the co-products (BOM Co-Product Maintenance).

You can define a maximum of 999 operations against each bill of materials structure.

Indicate the work center in which the operation must be performed.

Depending on whether you specified an internal or subcontract work center, the fields that can be defined changes accordingly.

This indicates the WIP branch of the current operation or work center.

If the WIP branch against the work center is not defined, then the WIP branch defined against the route for the main structure is displayed.

Indicate the quantity of product manufactured during the start up period and is deducted from the actual quantity to be manufactured when the run time is calculated

This quantity must be less than the quantity in the Economic batch quantity field against the stock item (Stock Codes). If it is not, then the accuracy of the BOM calculations is affected.

The number of productive units is the lowest common denominator in which the productive unit capacity of a work center is grouped within a factory.

Indicate the number of pieces involved in the operation. This enables you to mark quantities in a measure that is meaningful to you.

For example: If the job is to make bicycle wheels and this operation is to make spokes for the wheels, then you could indicate that 30 spokes (i.e. number of pieces) are required for each wheel.

Additionally, when making spokes for a bicycle wheel, the operator could mark the number of spokes produced during the operation enabling the system to calculate the number of wheels for which the operator has manufactured spokes.

Indicate whether this is a milestone operation.

You can use the preference: Default to milestone when adding operation to always set this option to selected.

Subcontract operations are always marked as milestone operations, but they are not used as a trigger to post to previous non-milestone operations. It is assumed that the operation immediately prior to a subcontract operation would be set as a milestone to allow for some control over materials leaving to be worked on by the subcontractor.

This field is only used for documentation purposes and can be printed on your factory documentation.

None

Select this if no inspection is required for the operation.

Full

Select this if a full inspection is required for the operation.

Sample

Select this if a sample inspection is required for the operation.

This can be printed on your factory documentation and is also used in the SYSPRO Factory Scheduling module when you run the SFS Finite Scheduler and the SFS Advanced Scheduler.

You can only access these fields if you enabled the option: Progressive scrap (Bill of Materials Setup).

You cannot maintain the scrap percentage or quantity once the job is confirmed, or allocations have been issued.

If you defined a fixed quantity of a component per parent, then any progressive scrap quantity or percentage defined against an Operation through which the component moves is not applied.

Following is an analogy explaining the difference between progressive scrap and material scrap:

Assume you manufacture action men dolls.

If you know that you scrap about 10% of the arms whilst attaching them to the body, then you define this as material scrap to raise the quantity per on each parent part.

If you know that you damage 10% of the body whilst attaching the arms, then you would define this as progressive scrap against the operation which attaches the arms.

Scrap percentage

Indicate the percentage of scrap you want to assign to the operation.

At the time of creating a job for the parent, any material allocation associated with this operation is inflated according to the scrap percentage entered.

Scrap quantity

Indicate the quantity of scrap you want to assign to the operation. At the time of creating a job for the parent, any material allocation associated with this operation is inflated according to the scrap quantity entered.

Select this to assign user-defined text to operations held against the parent stock code.

If you indicated that standard narrations are required for operations (Bill of Materials Setup) then you can select whether to enter Specific narration text for the operation, or retrieve text assigned to a standard narration code.

Select this to view the run time method and capacity calculations for the operation.

Indicate the work center in which the operation must be performed.

Depending on whether you specified an internal or subcontract work center, the fields that can be defined changes accordingly.

It enables you to indicate when the subsequent operation can start by transferring a quantity or percentage from the current operation.

For example, if the job quantity is 50 and you do not use the transfer quantity facility, then the next operation will only start when the 50 are completed in the current operation. However, if you set the transfer method to Quantity and enter 10, then 10 is transferred to the next operation. So, the next operation can start once 10 have been completed in the current operation.

Transfer method

Indicate whether the transfer method is quantity or percentage.

Quantity/percentage

Indicate the quantity or percentage to transfer to the next operation.

You can copy operations from the same parent item, as long as the source of the copy has a different route or revision/release.

Enter the revision number of the stock item from which to copy the operation.

This only applies when the stock code you entered is defined as ECC controlled (Stock Codes).

Indicates the ECC consumption method for an ECC controlled item.

Indicate the sequence number for the component in relation to the parent stock code. You can only access this field if you indicated that structure sequencing is required (Bill of Materials Setup). Regardless of whether you require structure sequencing, this field always defaults to the entry made at the Sequencing - Default number field (Bill of Materials Setup) for the first component added.

This field is disabled if you set Automatic sequencing to Yes.

If you selected the Preference: Default to automatic sequencing when adding components, then the sequence number is automatically calculated based on your entry at the Sequencing - Default number field (Bill of Materials Setup) and the Gap to use for automatic sequence numbering preference field.

If you manually enter a sequence number, then the number can be in the range 00 to 99. In addition, you can show more than one occurrence of the parent/component relationship.

For example:

When assembling an item, the same size screw must be used to secure the lid as well as the base, to another component. You then have the choice of indicating that you require either a total of eight screws, or that you need four screws on two separate occasions.

Another use of the sequence number would be on a flow line where you want to specify which station must receive which components (i.e. the station number would be entered as the sequence number).

This determines the revision/release to use when the component is issued to the job and only applies when the item is ECC controlled (Stock Codes).

This defaults to Specified and cannot be changed when the Stock control level is set to Stock code (Bill of Materials Setup).

• Specified

  Enter a valid revision/release for the ECC component.

• Use current

  Use the latest revision/release for the ECC component at the time of creating the job.

  The Revision and Release fields are set to '---/---' and disabled.

  If the option Apply current (Component) is enabled (Bill of Materials Setup) then when you create a job, the consumption method against the allocation is changed to Specific and defaults to the current revision and release.

• Deplete oldest

  Use the oldest valid revision/release for the ECC controlled component first.

  This only applies when the option Deplete oldest rev/rel first (Component) is enabled (Bill of Materials Setup).

  The Revision and Release fields are set to spaces and disabled.

  This option is disabled for Phantom, Soft phantom, Bulk issue and Floorstock items. It is also disabled when the parent item is a planning bill and when the Quantity per is negative.

Indicate the specific revision of the component to use in the bill of materials.

You can only access this field if ECC consumption is set to Specified.

Indicate the quantity of the component stock code that is required to make a single parent stock code.

This relationship is based on the unit of measure of the parent part and the component. The number of decimals that can be entered here (0 to 6) is determined by your entry at the option: Maximum decimals in quantity per (Bill of Materials Setup).

For batch bills of materials, this value is calculated as the Percentage of wet weight multiplied by the Specific gravity of the component.

Indicate the number of parent parts to which the component quantity per applies.

An entry of zero here indicates that the number of components required to make a single parent part is fixed regardless of the number of parent parts being made.

For example:

If the component quantity per is 2, then 2 components are required, regardless of whether you make 100, 200 or 1000 of the parent part.

An entry other than zero indicates that the number of components required is fixed in relation to a specific number of parent parts that will be made.

For example:

If the component quantity per of 2 is fixed according to 100 parent parts being made, then making 200 parent parts would require 4 components, and making 1000 parent parts would required 20 components.

Note that if you make 50 parent parts, then 2 components are used. (i.e. if you make between 1 and 100 parent items, 2 components are used. If you make between 101 and 200 parent parts, then 4 components are used, and so on).

Note also, that the costs of the components for a job are calculated according to the number of components used. Therefore, the material costs for this component will be the same whether you are making 1 parent item or 100 parent items (i.e. you are still using 2 of these components).

Refer also to Fixed Quantity Per Example.

You can only access this field if you selected the Fixed quantity option.

If a parent per fixed quantity is defined against a component, then any progressive scrap quantity or percentage defined against an operation through which the component moves, is not applied.

The total quantity required for a fixed quantity component with a parent quantity per is calculated as follows:

This number can be in the range 1 to 999, where 1 indicates that the material is required at the first operation (i.e. at the start of the job).

If you enter an operation number other than 1 then the operation must exist on file.

Indicate the type of component. This can be used to describe the component and can also be used as a selection criterion for reporting purposes.

Indicates any additional sequence or reference for the placement of the component within the assembly.

Indicate when the component must be deactivated from the structure. The default entry of 00/00/00 indicates that structure off dates are not required.

This only applies when structure on/off dates are required (Bill of Materials Setup).

Items that are inactive within a structure are ignored from the Cost Implosion program and from job allocations. The Structure Validation program can be used to remove components that are no longer relevant within a structure.

You use this field to enter the job number to which the component can be included in jobs.

This is only relevant if you selected the option: Component inclusion by job number (Bill of Materials Setup).

Increase the allocation quantity for this component, calculated at the time of creating a job.

For example: Given a one-to-one parent/component relationship where the scrap quantity is 5 - when you create a job to make 20 of the parent, the allocation for the component is 25.

If you add the scrap percentage and scrap quantity to a parent/component relationship, then the allocation is first increased by the scrap percentage and the scrap quantity is added to this figure.

For example: Given a one-to-one parent/component relationship where the scrap percentage is 10 and the scrap value is 5 - when you create a job to make 60 of the parent, the component allocation would be 71 (i.e. 60 x 10% = 6 and 60 + 6 + 5 = 71).

This field is disabled for a soft phantom component.

Select this to be able to make the decision at the time of order entry concerning whether to include the component on an order. Otherwise the component is regarded as mandatory and is inserted automatically into the sales order.

You can only select this option if you indicated that single level bill of materials is required (Sales Orders Setup).

If you select this for a co-product and the co-product is manufactured via a notional part on this route, then your selection is ignored.

This option is ignored when you use the Job Review program to create a live job from a suggested job.

You can copy components from the same parent item, as long as the source of the copy has a different route or revision/release. However, sub-assemblies are only copied to a new route if their structure is already defined for the new route.

For example, if stock code B100 has sub-assemblies in Route 0 and you copy B100 to Route 3, then the sub-assemblies are only copied if they have been defined against Route 3.

You therefore have to define the structure of the sub-assemblies first in the new route before copying the parent part.

This field is only enabled if the stock item you are copying components from is defined as ECC controlled (Stock Codes).

This returns you to the previous screen.

Select this to be able to choose any ordering option in the tree view, including Show materials first.

The default Structure and Routing tree view display is in XAML which does not allow you to select to Show materials first when you include operations in the tree view.

Select this to always display components whose structure on date has not been reached or whose off date has been exceeded (i.e. non-current components).

This option only applies if the setup option: Structure on/off dates is enabled (Bill of Materials Setup).

Refer to Glossary for additional information on milestone operations.

The sequence numbers are calculated as follows:

• The sequence number for the first component is the value defined in the Sequencing - Default number field (Bill of Materials Setup).

• The sequence number for the second component is calculated as the sequence number for the first component plus the value defined in the Gap to use for automatic sequence numbering preference field below.

• The sequence number for subsequent components is calculated as the sequence number for the previous component plus the value defined in the Gap to use for automatic sequence numbering preference field below.

Controls access to the Change function for components in the Structures and Routings program.

Controls access to the Add function for operations in the Structures and Routings program.

Controls access to the Delete function for Operations in the Structures and Routings program.

Controls access to the Change Sequence function for components in the Structures and Routings program.

Controls access to the Add function for components in the Structures and Routings program, within the Engineering Change Control module.

Controls access to the Delete function for components in the Structures and Routings program, within the Engineering Change Control module.

Controls access to the Change function for operations in the Structures and Routings program, within the Engineering Change Control module.

Controls access to the Move Operation function for operations in the Structures and Routings program, within the Engineering Change Control module.