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Hi
I have a question regarding the structure of a formula that uses intermediates.
Lets say that I am making a cereal product that includes 10 Kg of dried apricots as one of the ingredients.
All 10 KG of the apricots need to be soaked before they can be used. An item (soaked apricots) with a formula that includes s set up for this intermediate, and is included in the formula for the cereal.
5KG of the Soaked apricots are then cooked. An item (cooked apricots) with a formula that includes soaked Apricots is created for this intermediate, and also included in the formula for the cereal.
How do I construct the formula so that the second intermediate does not create a demand for additional apricots over the 10 KG?
Thanks
Steve
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I believe you should focus on operational planning to get this right... You can either have two production orders or use phantoms to lift it all into the one order.
The way to handle this is in your cereal formula have 5 kg dried and 5kg cooked. Then your cooked items needs to have an item its own with a soak operation in the route. The formula line for this item in the cereal formula could be a phantom.
The cereal would have at least two operations. Lets say it is like this:
10 soak
20 mix
30 pack
The dried items are marked with operation 10. Cooked are marked with operation 20.
Now when planning manufacturing you can make sure the soaking operation in your cereal and cooked apricot are handled together.
Good luck
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