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Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Product Configurator - Part 2

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Kathy Barthelt 0 61026 Article rating: 3.0
Who gets involved?
  1. Most commonly Engineering is involved in writing the rules, creating the bills and routings.
  2. Sales or Customer Service determines the questions and the order they are asked in.
  3. Sales or Customer Service determines the rules for the pricing.
  4. Sales, or Customer Service, and Engineering work together in determining the part number, description and text.

What are the steps?

  1. You must start by defining the features and options (questions and answers) and the order in which these are asked. We work this out first using sticky notes and large easel paper. Normally during the process we find that we want to move these questions around. Setting them down on paper makes the process of getting the data into Baan much more efficient. We also then have a record of what decisions were made prior to entering the data. This is normally a joint effort of Engineering and Sales. This is required and must be the first step.
  2. Constraints for features and options. These are the rules for determining what questions are asked and which options are allowed. This is generally done by Engineering or whoever is responsible for the configurator. This is required.
  3. Generic Bill of Material. All possible bill options are entered here and constraints are written to determine which options are selected based on the answers to the questions. This is generally done by Engineering or whoever is responsible for the configurator. This is a required step.
  4. Generic Routing. Similar to the bill of material, but used for generation of the routing steps. This is generally done by Engineering or whoever is responsible for the configurator. This is optional.
  5. Generic Item Data. This consists of creating custom item numbers, descriptions, text, material, size or standard fields in the custom item master. This is generally done by Engineering or whoever is responsible for the configurator though Sales may have some involvement. This is optional.
  6. Generic Pricing. This is used to calculate the selling price based on the answers to the questions. This is normally a responsibility of Sales or whoever determines the pricing. This group is also trained on writing the constraints for this section only. This is optional.
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BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: How To Capture Re-Work Time (Part 1)

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In SFC600, there is no code to capture the time spent on re-work. Re-work is usually at a specific operation, or when the part is finished and QC determines that re-work is required in order to pass inspection. You are faced with deciding on how to report the additional labor time.

Do you continue to report it against the operation, or create a re-work shop order?

If you are re-working through a specific operation you can capture the time as run labor with the SFC600 program. Now you need to deal with the variance of actual to standard time and what impact this has on costing.
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BPCS/LX Tip of the Week: Configuration Management

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Make to Order? No problem if you use the Configuration Management System. This LX product allows you to define and configure a make to order product during Customer Order Entry. Basically, you have the option to create different products under the same common product item. You will get two completely different common end items that are configured from the same common parent.

The customer orders are planned and turned into shop orders for each end item with all the associated components. With an MES solution in place, the shop order side is easy to schedule and allows you to manage the shop floor.

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Baan/LN Tip of the Week: Product Configurator - Part 1

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What is it?
The configurator consists of a set of features (questions). The options (answers) to these questions then are used to generate the custom bill of material and routing. These questions may be answered at the time of order entry, prior to order entry (in a project or quote) or after order entry (in the project). The order of the questions need not have any relationship to the bill of materials. The configurator may also calculate the selling price, create a unique “smart” item number, custom description and text. Simple rules are used to interpret the answers.

Who uses the configurator?
Companies whose products have options. The configurator eliminates the need for part numbers for all combinations of options. The configurator ensures that the pricing and bills are correct. The configurator also keeps statistics on the frequency the options are selected.
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TECHNOLOGY: Facility Security Ranges

Previously, a user could complete the Cost Transfer (CST920) process for any range of facilities regardless of their security settings established in SYS600. This enhancement verifies the user security settings set up in SYS600 before processing cost transfers for a range of facilities in CST920. If the user has authority for a facility range, but there are facilities within that range that are not authorized, the program skips those facilities and completes the cost transfer process.

FINANCE: Expiration Date for Quotes and RMAs

A Cancel-by-Date has been added to the Quote Header and RMA Header panels. This optional field can limit how long a quote or authorization to return items for credit is valid.  

For quotes, this enhancement provides an optional end date for the quote. For RMAs, it provides an optional date by which the customer must return the items to receive the credit listed on the RMA.

The Cancel-By-Date prints on the Order Acknowledgement and RMA Acknowledgement to inform the customer of this important limitation to the quote or return authorization. 

An Order Entry user cannot copy the quote to create a new order if the Cancel By Date has caused the quote to expire.

OPERATIONS: Default Split Salesperson to Customer Orders

Sales commissions are based on combinations of the Primary, Split, and Line-Level salesperson and the commission codes defined for the customer and item. You can now define the Split Salesperson in the same master files as the Primary Salesperson. While the Primary Salesperson is mandatory, the Split Salesperson is optional. It defaults during Order Create using the identical hierarchy as Primary Salesperson. Using Split Salesperson provides more flexibility in the calculation of sales commissions. The ability to define a default Split Salesperson improves the accuracy of sales commission qualification and calculation and reduces maintenance and adjustments necessitated by corrections.

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Previously, a user could complete the Cost Transfer (CST920) process for any range of facilities regardless of their security settings established in SYS600. This enhancement verifies the user security settings set up in SYS600 before processing cost transfers for a range of facilities in CST920. If the user has authority for a facility range, but there are facilities within that range that are not authorized, the program skips those facilities and completes the cost transfer process.

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Infor LN & Baan Tip: Considerations for Release to Warehousing for a Cost Item

When there are two Cost Items, one with Release to Warehousing applied and the other with Release to Warehousing not applied, upon approval of the Sales Order, the Cost Item that is released to Warehousing will go straight to Staged status, pending Shipment confirmation, while the Cost Item that is not released to Warehousing will be up for Sales Deliveries.

Apart from this main difference in functionality between having and not having this option to release to Warehousing checked, there are other impacts to consider. Below is some information gathered from various KBs related to the impact of having release to Warehousing applied (or not). KBs used as reference are listed as “– REF: KB XYZ”. Editing the checkbox “Release to Warehousing” itself If there is a Sales Order (in status Free is enough) for a Cost Item, the check box is not editable. As soon as all the Sales Orders for which the Item is involved are Closed (or Canceled or Deleted) the check box becomes editable again. – REF: KB 1439313 & KB 1613780 Simultaneous/separate release to Warehousing with Physical Items In a scenario where a Cost Item (that is released to Warehousing) and a physical Item are released to Warehousing separately, then the shipment confirmation of each of these Items will occur separately. If they are released simultaneously, the shipment of the Cost Item will not be processed unless and until the physical Item is ready to be shipped. – REF: KB 1449001 Note: Ensure a Warehouse is added to Order Lines to ensure Release to Warehousing Activity is applicable. – REF: KB 2229767 Invoicing

To invoice them separately or together, factors to consider are:

  • Composing Criteria, a list of fields that need to match to have a single invoice created – REF: KB 717977
  • Invoicing Methods (tcmcs0555m000) in the General tab, select Combine, for example, Shipments, to combine different Shipments of the same Sales Order into one Invoice. This Invoicing Method is also defined in
  • Invoice-to role of a Business Partner (tccom4112s000) in the Invoicing tab. – REF: KB 812637
  • For a Return Order where a Cost Item and a Physical Item were originally invoiced together, to invoice them together again, consider using Original Document type = Invoice and link the original Invoice to the Return Order. – REF: KB 2072847 

Note: Consider solution in KB 2108605 if Composing Criteria is met, yet still Credit Notes are not combined for a Return Sales Order copied from original Sales Order for one Physical Item and one Cost Item without release to Warehousing. 

ASN ASN cannot be generated for Purchase Order Lines with Cost Item if not released to Warehousing. – REF: KB 1548301 & KB 2111341 Intercompany Trade Intercompany Trade can be applied for a Cost Item that is released to Warehousing, as Intercompany Trade needs a Warehouse and a Department. – REF: KB 2112430 Customs Value Cost Items that are released to Warehousing that are handled via normal Sales Order Lines are considered as delivered goods and will get the customs value assigned like other Items being subject to warehouse handling. Cost Items handled on Shipment Lines as "Additional Cost" are not considered as delivered goods but as pure costs. The customs value of these shipment lines gets defaulted with a zero amount and cannot be modified. The same applies to additional costs on sales order lines. – REF: KB 1600847 Freight  Cost Items cannot be used for Freight handling. – REF: KB 1830170 Additional Cost

  • For automatically generated Additional Costs in Sales Orders, Cost Items that are released to Warehousing are not released to Warehousing. This is because automatic Additional Costs are always generated with 0 quantity, therefore only the amount is filled for these Lines, which leads to the Delivery Type being set to Sales and not Warehouse. As a result, delivery must take place in Sales module. – REF: KB 1995781
  • For Additional Cost Lines added to Shipment for Cost Items, refer to KB 2236856.

Intrastat Record When using Cost Items without release to Warehousing, there is no shipping data within Invoicing. Therefore, the corresponding Intrastat record cannot be found during the printing of the Invoice. To get the Invoice data filled on the Intrastat record, Cost Items with release to warehousing should be used. Otherwise, session Update Intrastat Transactions with Invoicing Data (tccom7271m100) should be ran to update the Invoicing data in Intrastat. – REF: KB 2005482

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