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Hey all,

 

We have 2 locations that are physically nearby each other (20 minute drive or so). Both locations will process shop orders, but, ultimately, the finished assemblies will be assembled into a final system at location A. We are considering making the 2 locations separate sites for financial and inventory segregation, but I am concerned about the shop order processing complexity that this will introduce.

 

Ideally, we’d be able to enter a shop order on Site A which has 2 components: Sub Assembly created at Site A and Sub Assembly created at Site B. Then we’d select which site we source each assembly from and that would create a linked shop order for that site.

 

I know it doesn’t work exactly like that, and there will probably be distribution orders or DOP orders involved, but hopefully that simplistic “ideal” makes sense. Is that ideal realistic in IFS? How do others handle multi-site manufacturing that is assembled and shipped to the customer from a single site?

@dritter a customer that I worked with was having the same scenario. It was one legal entity and 2 manufacturing locations. They choose to go for a single site but have 2 warehouses defined. They were using transport tasks to move the inventory from one warehouse to the other.

For them it was more important to have one shop order with multiple operations across the 2 physical locations and were not that much interested in the financial segregation. Using 2 warehouses you do have inventory segregation.

Hi @Marcel.Ausan thanks for sharing! We actually have a setup like that at the moment for a different location, but there have been some drawbacks raised by some of our users, particularly in inventory.

 

Based on your experience, could you share the top few pros/cons to handling a second, nearby manufacturing location as a Site versus a Warehouse? I am particularly interested in the manufacturing implications, but it is important to note that we do have a distribution side to our business.

 

Distribution would not be involved in location B, but we have some items that we use in manufacturing in location A in picking location types because of this. It’s my understanding that shop order auto reservation will always reserve from a floor location (at location B, for example) before reserving from a picking location, regardless of reservation priority setup at the site level if we use a single site.

 

Thanks again for your time and insight!

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