Sage 100

Anyone have a client who has come up with a good solution for kit items that are made up of items that are sometimes assembled at the time of order and sometimes stocked? I.E. the kit is a tin of candy and cookies. During their slow time, they wait and assemble when they get the order. Prior to their busy times, they bundle the candy portion and stock it as a subassembly.

Beth, with an inconsistent process, I would think you would want to go with a stock item in inventory supported by a BOM. What would change by season is your stocking level. In the slow season you want to set your minimum stock to 0 and your minimum order quantity to 1. That way you only build the kits you need based upon current demand. In busy season, you would raise both the minimum stock and the re-order quantity so you maintained adequate stock levels to support demand. Either way, you would use a report to identify the quantity to assemble and process a BOM transaction to back flush the assembly process.

Can you change the flag to prompt for delivery from stock or not?

Explode the bill items on the SO. CS clerk would then get a prompt when entering items to pull from stock or explode the items on the SO to build for that order.

See, that's the problem. It's not the actual KIT item. It's a group of the components. So sometimes they would want the kits to explode all the way, and sometimes they want it to partially explode, because they would need this subassembly within the kit PLUS additional items that make up the kit. So the kit would actually be viewed as a bill with 2 levels (which kits can't have) when they make for stock.

KnowledgeSync????

OK @JeffSchwenk your going to have to explain that answer to me. At first blush it seems to me that Beth asked about the weather and you answered ""Bowling Balls""!

Guess I was looking at it from how do we know when to make these items... Beth, can you clarify the question? And if not, I will say bowling pins this time.....

If they have BoM then how about using options? One option pull at time of order other option pre-build. Following @ShawnSlavin idea option 1 say has each of components w/qty option 2 has components with zero qty.

@MoiraGoggin - THAT'S IT! I think that would do it! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!

happy to help

@JeffSchwenk just teasing. Next time, I will be looking for someone to accuse me of smoking butterflies.

@MoiraGoggin well done. I missed the sub-component requirement. I will work harder on my reading comprehension skills.

ah @ShawnSlavin you're doing fine...except that I'm not sure I comprehend 'smoking butterfiles' is that with hickory or cherry or oak? Must be bowling lanes...

Will have to locate a nearby bowling alley after the meet and greet in three weeks.....

Bowling balls...pins...rental shoes...smoked butterflies...can't we just meet at a bar @JeffSchwenk? I think we'll all make more sense to each other after a drink or two or...

What about a bar at a bowling alley????

As long as I don't have to wear rental shoes that works for me!

Ewwwwww!

You're right I should clarify - as long as I don't have to wear or drink out of rental shoes.