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Hello Community,

I have a use case where one barrel of alcohol is broken down in e.g. four smaller barrels, and for this I am using assembly orders. The challenge here is that the smaller barrels (assembled items) are more to be treated as individual items. With assembly orders, the output is one Item and four in stock count. During the barrels lifetime (maturation) it should be possible to note down individual measurements, for which I have a customisation and add individual pictures etc.

My thoughts are going in different directions and your input would be very helpful. So far I am considering the following solutions:

  1. Use multiple assembly orders, in the case above, four. Each assembly order has then one fourth of the original barrel. The administration overhead is quite high and could be solved with configuration packages. The challenge also comes in other use cases, where filling new make sprits in bulk into e.g. 100 barrels or more
  2. Use one assembly order and afterwards split the items into individual items. For this a customisation would be needed i assume? And gets tricky when it is an already an assembled item.
  3. Use item variants but does not fulfil my use case as I see it currently.

Does anyone of you have any tips or other suggestions to point me in the right direction?

Thank you in advance for your input.

  • Alfredo_Iorio Profile Picture
    Alfredo_Iorio 1,260 on at
    RE: Assembly order to multiple items

    As Guy suggested, a product family and production orders seem to be e better option for your requirements.

    As an alternative, you could use different units of measure.

    For example, you can assemble one "Case" of barrels in your assembly order where the base unit of measure is a barrel and one case is made of four small barrels.

    When you post the assembly of one case, BC will create the four small barrels that you can change later. You can assign different attributes like alcohol content to the individual barrels and also manage different prices using variants.

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Assembly order to multiple items

    Thank you for your input, most helpful.

    From what you suggested I think I'll look at a solution to split up the items after they have been assembled.

  • Guy McKenzie Profile Picture
    Guy McKenzie 1,330 on at
    RE: Assembly order to multiple items

    The closest thing to your requirement with standard functionality is using Product families but this is part of Production orders rather than assembly and requires a premium license.

    But you can have one production order with one BOM and 4 separate outputs without any workaround or development.

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Assembly order to multiple items

    Thanks for coming back to me.

    There are many parameters that can vary for a barrel, but they are all the same in the beginning. During the course of maturation, weight, alcohol % and volume will change. Due to this, the sales price can also be different for the barrels.

    Maybe assembly orders are the wrong path for this scenario?

    Hope this clarifies.

  • Alfredo_Iorio Profile Picture
    Alfredo_Iorio 1,260 on at
    RE: Assembly order to multiple items

    The question here is what do you mean by "treating the four small barrels  as individual items"

    What do you need to get out of your assembly order? For example:

    - Does each of the four barrels have a different weight or volume therefore a different sales price?

    - Do you need to track the four barrels individually for traceability purposes?

    - Are the barrels the same but with different inventory costs due to production scrap %?

    We can help if you clarify the requirement.

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    RE: Assembly order to multiple items

    Hello,

    This is a partner question. Hope you will receive an answer from the community.

    Thank you.

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