Hi,
I have a question about creating new revisions, which is done to facilitate the change of a component from purchased to manufactured (and vice versa).
The underlying aim is to find the cleanest way to ensure MRP calls for the correct part type (i.e. generating the desired requisition type).
Current Practice
At present, a new revision is created (ref. page, ‘Eng Revisions’ → column ‘Eng Rev’). Following that, phase out dates are inserted by the user (ref. ‘Inventory Part’ → tab ‘Revisions’) against all the preceding revisions (and the purchased and manufactured templates they encompass).
Hence, when MRP runs, it’ll have no choice other than calling for the desired part type. Because all else is off the table, by inserting phase out dates.
Suggestion/Question
I believe we shouldn’t have to up-issue a part just to reflect it’s status change from purchased to manufactured (and vice versa).
There are 2 relevant columns here - ‘Revision’ and ‘Revision No’. Can a user edit the field ‘Revision No’ whilst retaining the value given in the column ‘Revision’. The idea would be, if part X moves from manufactured to supplied via a contractor, the revision would say at 1, however, the revision no. would change from 1 to 2.
I’m being told the value given in ‘Revision No’ is purely automated. So the only element that can be controlled is Revision. If so, what determines how IFS attributes ‘Revision No’. If this can’t be edited, I’d like some understanding to how it is calculated and assigned.
I appreciate this a a long post- it is a long-standing problem affecting my department, so any insight would be great!
Many thanks,
Jay
