POP Lotted Components Negative Production

[SusanD5320]

Version 7.6.200 SQL. POP WIP flag=Y, Soft Allocations, No Serial/Lot allocation method selected.

Parent item uses .1515 lbs of a lotted component. Components are issued when POP order is released. POP order issued for 30,000. Completed production is at 59,606. (Yes, it's significantly overreported on work order but this department is fairly new to using work orders and I haven't been able to make them understand why they shouldn't overrun by this much.) We need to back out production of 1,500. When I report negative production quantity of 1,500 there is no adjustment to the lotted component to return 227.25 to stock. A manufacturing variance G/L entry was recorded for the value of the lotted component.

Shouldn't the system return the component to stock and ask for the lot number when the negative production is reported? If you overreport a positive quantity, you are required to designate lot numbers and component quantity. Do we have something set up incorrectly?

I assume I can correct thru the Adjust Material Issue txn. I dislike using these because you lose traceability on the transactions because the system adjusts a transaction already posted instead of creating a new PP Issue transaction.

Sue

 

[dgillz]

I agree with you completely. Have you reported this to Exact? If so what was their response?

 

[SusanD5320]

I haven't sent it in yet. I wanted to make sure that we weren't doing something wrong on our end first.

After I report it, I will update the list with their response.

 

[SusanD5320]

Exact's response to the bug request was that it has been corrected in 7.6.300 and therefore we should upgrade to the new version.

Sue

 

[MacolaHelp]

Did you do a disassembly order or a negative quantity production? It sounds as if the IMINVADJ screen didn't pop up during your processing, so the lot file went out of balance with the iminvloc file. This would not be a surprise that the programmers missed this "if,then" scenario. We'd have to test in 300a using your same methodology to find out if it is really fixed.

 

[SusanD5320]

It did not return any of the component to stock and so therefore did not pop up the IMINVADJ screen. I we had to do a Adjust Material Issue on the POP order to return the component to inventory.