Topic: Best practice: purchasing comsumables/stock
By: Guest
Posted on: Jan 31 2025 at 07:22:40 AM
I'm very new to this and I'm having some doubts about how to handle the purchasing of consumables (materials commonly used under generic production activities) and parts for stock (that they will allocated/issued to WIP's at a later stage).
Shall I create separate assemblies/WO/PO to handle them? OR ...? Any suggestions about a name coding system? Thanks
By: Guest
Posted on: Jan 31 2025 at 08:05:37 AM
I'd say it's up to you to decide how you want to handle those things. What's so special about your 'consumable' item? If a Bill of Materials always requires a quantity of that item then it's an inventory item just like any other.
In MiniMRP you can buy and sell any component as well as use it in a BOM.
But if you want to consume an item outside of any work order then just got to "Inventory - All Components". Find the item. Click it with the 'Right' mouse button and select the option to Adjust Quantity and "Issue". This takes a quantity of the item out of the inventory but not connected to any specific work order.
There is a special case for "miscellaneous" items. If you select the menu option "Inventory - All Components" and select an item to go to that Item's detail window. You see a little dropdown "TYPE". here you can select "MISC" (miscellaneous items).
You might use this for an item that you don't keep in your inventory such as labor. Labor has a value that you might want to be included in the build cost of an assembly but you don't want to have a quantity of it in your inventory. In this case create an inventory item, say, "LABOR". Add yourself as a supplier of it and set a cost of, say, $1 (per minute?) Then in your Assembly BOM you can add that item with the quantity (the number of minutes labor to build one assembly). Now when you look at the build cost of that assembly it will include the labor cost. But when you issue the work order it does not take the quantity of MISC items out of the inventory.
I suppose you could use that MISC type for any kind of item that you do not want to count. They have a value that you include in a BOM but they're not counted in the inventory.
Any other item that you do want to count is just an item like any other that you can buy, sell or consume on work order or simply 'issue' from stock as described above.
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