Alternative Production BOMs and Routings

Using alternative production BOMs or routings is quite common in a manufacturing environment. It could for example be that larger orders are run in higher capacity machines, versions of products are produced with slight variations in components (like different colors), or you might produce the same item in two different locations and therefor need two different routings.

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Simple Production with Generic Backflush Routing

You can run production in Microsoft Dynamics NAV with only production BOMs and without any routings. A reason for this is typically that you don’t have a requirement to capture capacity costs (labor and overhead) and you don’t want to do any scheduling of work centers or machine centers.

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Using Alternate Bills of Materials or Routings in Dynamics NAV

Do you need to use alternate bills of materials (BOM) or routings in your business? Let’s first define what I mean by “alternate BOM or routing.” An Alternate BOM or routing is a predefined process or set of components that can be used to make an item but is not the “standard” method of doing so.

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Setting Up Production Lead Time in Microsoft Dynamics NAV if You’re Not Using Routings

There are manufacturing companies using Dynamics NAV that want to offset the start time on production orders to accommodate production time even though they are not using Routings.

To illustrate, I set up a test item called BOB PRODUCED. Note that the item has a BOM, but not a Routing.

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Using Send-Ahead Quantity in Microsoft Dynamics NAV Routings

From a production scheduling point of view, it may be advantageous to ‘overlap’ production steps to reduce the elapsed time to produce a lot of goods.

From the APICS Dictionary

Send-Ahead is the movement of a portion of a lot of material to a subsequent operation before completion of the current operation for all units of the lot. The purpose of sending material ahead is to reduce the manufacturing lead time.

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Understanding Concurrent Capacities on Microsoft Dynamics NAV Routing Lines

There is a field in the Dynamics NAV Routing Line named Concurrent Capacities. The question is, “What is it used for?” I have set up a simple example to illustrate the use of this field.

First, I created a Work Center named ASSEMBLY. I set the Capacity of the Work Center to 10.

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