Part issues

Use the Part issues form to register the parts to issue. The parts could be parts you are issuing from stock or production, or to-order parts you are issuing after you have purchased them. Parts can be issued:

• For use in a production order
• For unplanned use in a production order: the production order will not yet have a calculation line for the part you want to issue
• To a cost center

It is also possible to return remainders to stock by recording a negative stock issue.

To register multiple issues at the same time, for example issues for the same sales order, sales offer, or production order, you can also have the issue lines created automatically. In that case, you will not have to manually create an issue line for each issue.

When issuing parts, the procedure to be followed depends on whether the goods were purchased to order or for stock purposes:

• For parts ordered for stock purposes, you are required to register the issue, because the registration will update the (reserved) stock. The Stock field shows all of the stock of the part. The Available quantity field shows how many parts are available for the issue: these parts have the same settings in the Warehouse, Location, Lot number, Status, Certificate, Stock date and Revision fields (if it is an object, only the object code needs to match).

  The Stock of part revisions is interchangeable setting does not affect the manual registration of issues on the Part issues form. It does, however, affect the automatic registration of issues with the Create issue lines for parts process and the processing of issue lines with the Process part issues process. For those processes, all revisions of the part are considered as available stock if revision management is used and the stock of part revisions is set to be interchangeable.

  The issue can also be made by using the backflushing process. Issue lines cannot be processed if the selected stock line or WIP line is blocked for issues and shipments.

• For parts ordered to order, you are not required to register their issue. It does have advantages to do so, however, as registration results in the quantities being deducted. This enables you to review efficiency differences in the actual costing phase.

You are also not required to register the issue of parts from production to production.

Once you have registered the issue lines, you need to process the lines. Any postings required will not be made until the issue lines have been processed.

Note: You can process an issue only if the line has an issue date and the processing status is 'Ready for processing'.