Planning Managing Partial Deliveries Receiving Supplier Products

291 Table 20.13: Rule to move products manually from Shang- hai Port to Antwerp Port Field Value Source location Shanghai Port Destination location Antwerp Port Type of Movement Manual Lead time 30 days Operation Sending to Antwerp Port by ship Table 20.14: Rule to move products manually from Antwerp Port to Antwerp Customs Field Value Source location Antwerp Port Destination location Antwerp Customs Type of Movement Manual Lead time 15 days Operation Customs in Antwerp Table 20.15: Rule to move products manually from Antwerp Customs to Stock Field Value Source location Antwerp Customs Destination location Stock Type of Movement Manual Lead time 3 days Operation Truck transport into stock Once the rules have been configured, OpenERP will automatically prepare all the documents needed for the internal stock movements of products from one location to another. These documents will be assigned one after another depending on the order defined in the rules definition. When the company received notification of the arrival at a port or at customers, the corresponding move can be confirmed. You can then follow, using each location: • where a given goods item can be found, • quantities of goods awaiting customs, • lead times for goods to get to stores, • the value of stock in different locations. Example 3: Quality Control You can configure the system to put a given product in the Quality Control bay automatically when it arrives in your company. To do that you just configure a rule for the product to be placed in the Quality Control location rather than the Input location when the product is received from the supplier. Table 20.16: Rule to move products man- ually from Input to Quality Control Field Value Source location Input Destination location Quality Control Type of Movement Manual Lead time 0 days Operation Quality Control Once this product has been received, OpenERP will then automatically manage the request for an internal movement to send it to the Quality Control location. 292 293 CHAPTER TWENTYONE MANUFACTURING The management of manufacturing described in this chapter covers planning, ordering, stocks and the manufacturing or assembly of products from raw materials and components. It also discusses consumption and production of products, as well as the necessary operations on machinery, tools or human resources. The management of manufacturing in Open ERP is based on its stock management and, like it, is very flexible in both its operations and its financial control. It benefits particularly from the use of double-entry stock management for production orders. Manufacturing management is implemented by the mrp module. It is used for transforming all types of products: • Assemblies of parts: composite products, soldered or welded products, assemblies, packs, • Machined parts: machining, cutting, planing, • Foundries: clamping, heating, • Mixtures: mixing, chemical processes, distillation. You will work in two areas: on products in the first part of this chapter, and on operations in the second part. The management of products depends on the concept of classifications while the management of operations depends on routing and workcenters. Note: Bills of Materials Bills of Materials, or manufacturing specifications, go by different names depending on their application area, for example: • Food: Recipes, • Chemicals: Equations, • Building: Plans. For this chapter you should start with a fresh database that includes demo data, with mrp and its dependencies installed and no particular chart of accounts configured.

21.1 Management of production

Production Orders describe the operations that need to be carried out and the raw materials usage for each stage of production, You use specifications bills of materials to work out the raw material requirements and the manufacturing orders needed for the finished products. Manufacturing has the following results: • Stock reduction: consumption of raw materials, • Stock increase: production of finished goods, • Analytic costs: manufacturing operations, • Added accounting value of stock: by the creation of value following the transformation of products.