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Hello,

We have a need to disassemble finished goods and put the components back into inventory. The component may be serial and/or lot tracked. We would also like to track labor to disassemble product if possible. Below is a list of things we have tried so far but are currently stuck. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

  • Disassembly Shop Order
    • Multiple IFS consultants have told us this transaction is tied to the Repair module and isn’t meant to un-manufacture Inventory Parts.
  • Manually count components back into inventory
    • Cannot track labor to disassemble
    • Throws off cycle count accuracy
    • Creates inventory from nothing
    • Individually counting in 50+ parts with serials/lots is very time consuming and has high potential for user error.
  • Reverse Shop Order (Reopen, Unreceive, Unissue, etc.)
    • Cannot track labor to disassemble
    • May have to disassemble across financial periods (months, quarters, year) and Finance does not want us to do this.
    • Creates variance on Shop Order
  • Repair Shop Order with by-products
    • Will be able to track labor to disassemble
    • Structure can be pre-populated
    • Receive error that serialized byproducts are not supported

Yep unfortunately the possibility to enter a standalone Disassembly Shop Order is missing in IFS.

One option more to evaluate is to use a multilevel repair shop order. That requires the Part to be multilevel tracked and have been previously manufactured with an IFS manufacturing shop order.

If that's set you can create the multilevel repair shop order and issue the correct parent serial or lot to disassemble. Then you can remove the components and receive them to stock as Salvage Parts. Serial components also supported. 

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