Spare Parts Listing Creation

[DSauve]

We manufacture casting equipment for the aluminum industry. As part of our product, we also create spare parts listings for much of our equipment, listing item #'s, descriptions, and other information. The customer then uses these manuals when replacement components are needed.

How are other companies dealing with the creation of such listings -- i.e. how do you create spare parts lists? Our publications group is reviewing their current process and trying to see if there is a more efficient way to do this. Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Frosty the Coder]

NOT speaking from experience (as none of my clients have done this),
BUT could you setup your publications group as a "customer"
and put all replacement parts into the Cust Item Xref (4104)?

Just a thought.....

 

[Krofire.com]

The 'out-of-the-box' solution is Bill of Material using an alternative "BoM Type" (TBM UDC 40/TB). In Demo Data there is a value here for "SPR" Spare Parts Bill although you can setup anything you like.

Your regular Manufacturing BoM will use Type "M" which is hardcoded for Product Costing, Leadtime Rollup and Requirements Planning. "SPR" will be ignored so you can store anything you like in there. If you wish to ensure that the Manufacturing Shopfloor staff don't accidentally attach this as a Parts List to a Work Order then you suppress the TBM field from appearing in P48013 with a Processing Option.

P3002 also has this Processing Option. So you may not have been previously aware of the TBM's existance if it was switched off....