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Part V. Assembly to order

This part answers one question: when a customer orders an industrial computer that your company has not assembled in advance, what does the system do so that the machine is assembled, gets a serial number, is costed from the exact components used and is delivered to the customer? The readers are assembly technicians, workshop managers, storekeepers, salespeople and cost accountants.

This part has nine lessons, in this order: read the configuration, sell and assemble a machine, read the cost, deliver the machine, build a new configuration, understand what happens when components are missing, view the reports, and then do the exercises on your own. The two customers used in this part are Công ty CP Sản xuất Khuôn mẫu Chính xác Thanh Bình (orders a machine that already has a bill of materials) and Công ty CP Sản xuất Chiếu sáng Đô thị Bình An (orders a new configuration that has no bill of materials yet).

Your company logs in and follows the steps on its own. The document codes (S00214, XLR/MO/00067...) and the serial numbers in the screenshots belong to the demonstration run; your company's documents will carry the next codes.

Lesson 30. Read the assembly configuration

About 12 minutes. By the end of this lesson your company knows what the bill of materials of a machine contains, why the assembly order is generated automatically in the "Xưởng lắp ráp" warehouse (the assembly workshop), how machines and components are tracked by serial number, and which account receives the assembly cost. This lesson is for viewing only; nothing is changed.

Step 1 - Open the list of bills of materials

Click the Manufacturing menu, choose Products, then Bills of Materials.

PathManufacturing > Products > Bills of Materials
List of bills of materials of the assembled machines

What you should see: each row is an assembled machine, and the BoM Type column reads "Manufacture this product". A machine has exactly one bill of materials; a machine with no row here is one the system does not yet know how to assemble (see the lesson "A new configuration without a bill of materials").

Step 2 - Open the bill of materials of machine PE1100N-DA04

Type PE1100N-DA04 in the search box, then click the row "Industrial Computer PE1100N-DA04".

PathManufacturing > Products > Bills of Materials
Bill of materials of machine PE1100N-DA04 with three components

What you should see: the Components tab lists three components: a semi-assembled computer, a lexar 256GB storage drive and a power cable, 1 of each. The Quantity column is the number of components needed for one machine; the assembly order takes exactly these lines.

Step 3 - See in which warehouse the order will be created

Click the Miscellaneous tab on the same bill of materials.

PathManufacturing > Products > Bills of Materials > PE1100N-DA04 > Miscellaneous
Operation type of the bill of materials is Xưởng lắp ráp: Manufacturing

What you should see: the Operation Type field reads "Xưởng lắp ráp: Manufacturing". This is why the assembly order carries the XLR/MO code and takes its components from the stock of the assembly workshop. Flexible Consumption is set to "Allowed with warning": if the technician uses more or fewer components than the bill of materials says, the system warns but does not block.

Step 4 - Read the expected cost of the machine

Click the Components tab, then click the BoM Overview button at the top of the screen.

PathManufacturing > Products > Bills of Materials > PE1100N-DA04 > BoM Overview
BoM Overview with the cost of each component

What you should see: the machine line at the top shows a cost of 24,081,000 VND, equal to the sum of the three component lines below (19,983,000 VND, 3,513,000 VND and 585,000 VND). This is the expected cost; the real cost of an order is read in the lesson "Read the machine cost: from components to account 155".

Step 5 - See the supply route on the product

Open the product of the machine: go to the Inventory menu, choose Products, type PE1100N-DA04 and click the product. Click the Inventory tab.

PathInventory > Products > Products > PE1100N-DA04 > Inventory
The Replenish on Order (MTO) route is ticked

What you should see: in the Routes field, the box "Replenish on Order (MTO)" is ticked. This route means: a machine is assembled only when there is a sales order, in exactly the ordered quantity, and is not assembled in advance to wait. The button bar above reads Bill of Materials 1, which means this machine already has one bill of materials.

Step 6 - See how serial numbers are tracked

Click the General Information tab of the same product.

PathInventory > Products > Products > PE1100N-DA04 > General Information
Inventory tracking by unique serial number

What you should see: the Track Inventory box is ticked and set to "By Unique Serial Number". Every machine leaving the workshop carries its own serial number. The main components (the semi-assembled computer and the storage drive) are also tracked by serial number; the power cable is tracked by quantity.

Step 7 - View the configuration of the Xưởng lắp ráp warehouse

Go to the Inventory menu, choose Configuration, Warehouse Management, Warehouses, then click "Xưởng lắp ráp".

PathInventory > Configuration > Warehouse Management > Warehouses
Configuration of the Xưởng lắp ráp warehouse with manufacture to resupply

What you should see: in the Resupply section, the box Manufacture to Resupply is ticked and Manufacture is set to "Manufacture (1 step)". One step means the components are taken straight from the workshop's own stock into the order, without an intermediate area. For that reason the components must be purchased and received into the workshop before a machine is sold.

Step 8 - See the account that records the assembly cost

Go to Inventory, choose Configuration, Warehouse Management, Locations. Remove the "Internal" filter, then type Production in the search box and click the row that is found.

PathInventory > Configuration > Warehouse Management > Locations
The Production location with production cost account 154

What you should see: Location Type is "Production" and, under Accounting Information, Cost of Production is "154 Work in progress". Components move from the warehouse into this location when an order is completed, and the finished machine moves from this location back to the warehouse; these two passes are exactly the two journal entries read in the lesson "Read the machine cost: from components to account 155".

What is lost if it is not set up

Setting Without it
The bill of materials of the machine A sales order for that machine cannot generate an assembly order; the machine has nowhere to take its components from
The "Replenish on Order (MTO)" route on the product The machine is treated as stock delivered from inventory and does not generate an assembly order on its own
The operation type "Xưởng lắp ráp: Manufacturing" on the bill of materials The order that is generated may carry the wrong warehouse, and components are reported as unavailable even though the workshop has enough
Serial tracking on the machine A serial number cannot be assigned at completion; you cannot trace which components this machine was assembled from or which customer it was delivered to
The Production location linked to account 154 The value of the components used cannot be gathered into one account to be carried over into the cost of the finished product

Lesson 31. Sell an assembled machine to Thanh Bình and open the automatic order

About 18 minutes. By the end of this lesson your company has checked the components, created a sales order for one PE1100N-DA04 machine for Công ty CP Sản xuất Khuôn mẫu Chính xác Thanh Bình, confirmed the order, and opened the assembly order the system has just generated, together with the components reserved for it.

Step 1 - Check the components available in the assembly workshop

Open the BoM Overview of machine PE1100N-DA04 again (as in Step 4 of the previous lesson). Click the Forecast switch at the top right, then click the Warehouse box and choose "Xưởng lắp ráp".

PathManufacturing > Products > Bills of Materials > PE1100N-DA04 > BoM Overview > Forecast
All components of machine PE1100N-DA04 are in stock at the Xưởng lắp ráp warehouse

What you should see: all three components read "Available" in green, and the usable and on-hand quantities of each row are not lower than the quantity needed for one machine. If a row is red and reads "To Buy", choose another machine or receive more components first (see the lesson "When components are missing"). The status badge on the machine line reads "Ready To Produce", meaning the machine is ready to be assembled.

Step 2 - Create a new quotation for Thanh Bình

Go to the Sales menu, choose Orders, then Quotations, and click New. In the Customer field type Khuôn mẫu Chính xác Thanh and choose "Công ty CP Sản xuất Khuôn mẫu Chính xác Thanh Bình".

PathSales > Orders > Quotations
New quotation with customer Thanh Bình selected

What you should see: the customer's address appears below the name, Pricelist is "Standard Price List (VND)" and Payment Terms is "30 Days", both taken from the customer's record.

Step 3 - Choose the Xưởng lắp ráp warehouse on the order

Click the Other Info tab. In the Delivery section, click the Warehouse box, type Xưởng and choose "Xưởng lắp ráp".

PathSales > Orders > Quotations > New > Other Info
The Warehouse box on the sales order is set to Xưởng lắp ráp

What you should see: the Warehouse box reads "Xưởng lắp ráp" (the default is Kho Hà Nội). The warehouse on the order decides where the assembly order is created and which warehouse the components are taken from; choosing Xưởng lắp ráp means choosing the place where the components are already stored.

Step 4 - Add the machine line

Click the Order Lines tab again, click Add a product, type DEMO-PC-FUL-2450 and choose "Industrial Computer PE1100N-DA04". Click the save icon (the cloud icon) next to the order number.

PathSales > Orders > Quotations > New > Order Lines
Order line for one PE1100N-DA04 machine, unit price 33,878,000

What you should see: the order line has quantity 1.00, unit price 33,878,000 VND from the Standard Price List, and tax 10%. The quotation is saved and receives a code (for example S00214).

Step 5 - Confirm the order

Click the Confirm button.

PathSales > Orders > Quotations > S00214
Confirmed order with the Delivery and Manufacturing buttons

What you should see: the status bar moves to "Sales Order"; at the top of the order two buttons appear, Delivery and Manufacturing, each with the number 1. The Manufacturing button is the assembly order the system has just generated, and the Delivery button is the delivery transfer waiting for the machine.

Step 6 - Open the assembly order from the sales order

Click the Manufacturing button on the order.

PathSales > Orders > Quotations > S00214 > Manufacturing
Confirmed assembly order, components available

What you should see: an order with a code XLR/MO/..., and the status bar at "Confirmed". Quantity is 1.00 to assemble; Bill of Material is the bill of materials of the machine; Component Status is "Available" in green. The Components tab has three lines, each labelled "Available". The Consumed column at this point is the quantity reserved for the order, not yet the quantity really used.

Step 7 - See which components have been reserved

On the line of the semi-assembled computer, click Details.

PathManufacturing > Operations > Manufacturing Orders > XLR/MO/00067 > Components > Details
Reservation details: a serial number of the semi-assembled computer in Xưởng lắp ráp

What you should see: the Components window shows Pick From "XLR/Tồn kho" together with a specific serial number of the component, quantity 1.00. The system has already chosen exactly which device will be used for this machine. Click Discard to close the window; nothing is changed.

Lesson 32. Finish the machine, assign the serial number and complete the order

About 12 minutes. By the end of this lesson order XLR/MO/00067 is complete: three components are deducted from the Xưởng lắp ráp warehouse, and one PE1100N-DA04 machine with a new serial number is received into the stock of the Xưởng lắp ráp warehouse.

Step 1 - Assign a serial number to the machine

On order XLR/MO/00067, in the Lot/Serial Number field click the Generate Serial button.

PathManufacturing > Operations > Manufacturing Orders > XLR/MO/00067
Order with the serial number of the machine, status To Close

What you should see: the Lot/Serial Number field shows a serial number (for example 0000002), the Quantity field changes to 1.00 / 1.00, the status bar moves to "To Close" and the Serial Numbers button appears at the top of the order. The system assigns this number by the TVS sequence, in the form TVS, a two-digit year, a two-digit month and five digits (the number in the screenshot was taken before the sequence was changed, so it looks like 0000002; the numbers your company receives follow the TVS form); the Clear button next to the field removes the number just assigned.

Step 2 - Complete the order

Click the Produce All button.

PathManufacturing > Operations > Manufacturing Orders > XLR/MO/00067
Assembly order completed, with the serial number of the machine

What you should see: the status bar is at "Done", the processing buttons disappear and only the Unbuild button remains. On the Components tab, To Consume and Consumed are equal on all three lines. The top of the order gains the buttons Traceability, Product Moves, Overview and Serial Numbers. The notes area on the right reads "MO Done". The date of the order is read from the stock moves (Step 5 of the lesson "Read the machine cost: from components to account 155").

Step 3 - Trace the machine back to its components

Click the Traceability button on the order.

PathManufacturing > Operations > Manufacturing Orders > XLR/MO/00067 > Traceability
Traceability report of the order

What you should see: the report shows order XLR/MO/00067, machine PE1100N-DA04 with the serial number just assigned, moving from "Production" to "XLR/Tồn kho", quantity 1.00 Set.

Lesson 33. Read the machine cost: from components to account 155

About 12 minutes. By the end of this lesson your company can read the real cost of the machine just assembled, compare it with the total value of the components, and see the two journal entries the system records on its own: components into 154, and the finished machine from 154 into 155.

Step 1 - Open the Overview of the order

On the completed order XLR/MO/00067, click the Overview button.

PathManufacturing > Operations > Manufacturing Orders > XLR/MO/00067 > Overview
MO Overview: unit cost and real cost

What you should see: the machine line shows Unit Cost 24,081,000 VND and Real Cost 24,081,000 VND. The three component lines below show 19,983,000 VND, 3,513,000 VND and 585,000 VND. The last line, Total Cost of Components, is 24,081,000 VND. The machine cost equals the total value of the components used; this order has no separate labour or overhead cost.

Step 2 - Find the two journal entries of the order

Go to the Accounting menu, choose Accounting, Transactions, Journal Entries. Remove the "Manual Entries" filter, click the search box, type XLR/MO/00067 and choose the line "Search Reference for".

PathAccounting > Accounting > Transactions > Journal Entries
Two inventory valuation entries referencing order XLR/MO/00067

What you should see: two entries in the "Inventory Valuation" journal, on the same date as the order, Reference XLR/MO/00067, each with a total of 24,081,000 VND and status "Posted".

Step 3 - Read the components entry (Debit 154, Credit the inventory account)

Click the entry with the lower number (ending in 0044 in the example).

PathAccounting > Accounting > Transactions > Journal Entries > STJ/.../0044
Components entry: Debit 154, Credit 156

What you should see: each component has a pair of lines: Credit on the account "156 Merchandise inventory" and Debit on "154 Work in progress", with the amounts 19,983,000 VND, 3,513,000 VND and 585,000 VND respectively. Total debit and total credit are both 24,081,000 VND. For a component in the materials group, the credit line is account 152 instead of 156.

Step 4 - Read the finished machine entry (Debit 155, Credit 154)

Go back to the list and click the other entry.

PathAccounting > Accounting > Transactions > Journal Entries > STJ/.../0045
Finished product entry: Debit 155, Credit 154

What you should see: two lines: Debit "155 Finished goods" 24,081,000 VND and Credit "154 Work in progress" 24,081,000 VND. Account 154 is debited in the previous entry and credited in this one, so it returns to zero when the order is complete; the value that stays in 155 is the value of the machine in stock. The label of each line carries the order code and the machine name.

Step 5 - See which components left the stock and on what date

Go to the Inventory menu, choose Reporting, Moves History. Click the search box, type XLR/MO/00067 and choose "Search Reference for".

PathInventory > Reporting > Moves History
Four moves of the order: three components out, one machine in

What you should see: four lines on the same day: three components moving from "XLR/Tồn kho" to "Production" (quantity in red, with the serial number of the semi-assembled computer and of the storage drive) and one machine moving from "Production" to "XLR/Tồn kho" (quantity in green, with the serial number of the machine). The date of the order is read in this Date column. The end date recorded on a completed order of the sample system may show the date the data was loaded; your company reads the date from the stock moves as here.

Lesson 34. Deliver the machine to the customer

About 8 minutes. By the end of this lesson the PE1100N-DA04 machine carrying the serial number just assembled has been delivered to Công ty CP Sản xuất Khuôn mẫu Chính xác Thanh Bình, and the delivery transfer is complete.

Step 1 - Open the delivery transfer from the order

Open order S00214 again and click the Delivery button.

PathSales > Orders > Orders > S00214 > Delivery
Delivery transfer XLR/OUT ready, machine available

What you should see: a transfer with a code XLR/OUT/..., Operation Type "Xưởng lắp ráp: Delivery Orders", Source Location "XLR/Tồn kho", and the machine line labelled "Available". This transfer stays at "Waiting" from the moment the order is confirmed and moves to "Ready" exactly when the assembly order is complete; the notes box on the right records the time of the change.

Step 2 - Check the serial number on the delivery transfer

On the machine line, click Details.

PathInventory > Operations > Transfers > Deliveries > XLR/OUT/...
Delivery details: the serial number of the machine just assembled

What you should see: Pick From "XLR/Tồn kho" together with exactly the serial number assigned on the assembly order, quantity 1.00. Click Discard to close the window.

Step 3 - Confirm the delivery

Click the Validate button on the delivery transfer.

PathInventory > Operations > Transfers > Deliveries > XLR/OUT/...
Delivery transfer completed

What you should see: the status bar is at "Done", and the Effective Date field has the delivery time. The delivery transfer only moves the machine out of the warehouse; the cost of goods entry goes with the sales invoice (Debit 632, Credit 155), see PART ACCOUNTING. The system also writes a message into the notes area of the transfer saying that the order has been shipped.

Lesson 35. A new configuration without a bill of materials

About 30 minutes. By the end of this lesson your company has created a new machine product, built its bill of materials straight from a draft order, then sold it to Công ty CP Sản xuất Chiếu sáng Đô thị Bình An and seen the assembly order generated by the new bill of materials. The new machine here is PE1000N-BA02: one PE1000N-NTIC embedded computer, two lexar 256GB SSD drives and one power cable.

Step 1 - Create the new machine product

Go to the Inventory menu, choose Products, Products, and click New. Fill in: - name: Industrial Computer PE1000N-BA02 (2 SSD drives); - untick Purchase (the machine is assembled in-house, not bought); - Track Inventory: choose "By Unique Serial Number"; - Sales Price: 14500000; - Category: type PC Full and choose "Thành phẩm (Lắp ráp) / PC Full"; - Reference: PE1000N-BA02.

PathInventory > Products > Products > New
New machine product with name, price, category and serial tracking filled in

What you should see: Category is "Thành phẩm (Lắp ráp) / PC Full". Choosing exactly this category is important: another category is also named "PC Full" but belongs to "Hàng hóa", and is used for goods bought for resale. The finished goods category is the one that makes the machine enter the stock under account 155, as read in the cost lesson.

Step 2 - Choose the "Replenish on Order (MTO)" route

Click the Inventory tab, tick Replenish on Order (MTO) in the Routes field, then click the save icon.

PathInventory > Products > Products > PE1000N-BA02 > Inventory
The MTO route is ticked for the new machine

What you should see: the route box is ticked, the product is saved, and the button bar above reads Bill of Materials 0: the machine has no bill of materials yet.

Step 3 - Open a draft manufacturing order for the new machine

Go to the Manufacturing menu, choose Operations, Manufacturing Orders, and click New. In the Product field type PE1000N-BA02 and choose the machine just created. Click the Miscellaneous tab and, in the Operation Type field, choose "Xưởng lắp ráp: Manufacturing".

PathManufacturing > Operations > Manufacturing Orders > New
Draft order of the new machine, operation type Xưởng lắp ráp: Manufacturing

What you should see: Components Location and Finished Products Location are both "XLR/Tồn kho". If you skip the operation type step, the draft order takes the default type of the system (code WH/MO) and the components added afterwards are reported as "Not Available", because the order looks for the components in a place that does not hold them.

Step 4 - Add the components actually used

Click the Components tab. Click Add a line three times and choose in turn: IN-PCF-AS-PE1000N-NTIC_NANO (1), IN-SSD-M2.NVME.2280-256G-LX (2) and CS-PK-DAYNGUON-VN (1). Enter the exact quantity in the To Consume column, then click the save icon.

PathManufacturing > Operations > Manufacturing Orders > New > Components
Draft order with three components and the Generate BOM button next to the Bill of Material field

What you should see: the three component lines are all "Available", and the To Consume column is 1.00, 2.00 and 1.00 (remember to check the quantity of the storage drive line). The order receives a code XLR/MO/... and the Bill of Material field has a Generate BOM button.

Step 5 - Create the bill of materials from the order

Click the Generate BOM button.

PathManufacturing > Operations > Manufacturing Orders > XLR/MO/... > Generate BOM
New bill of materials pre-filled with the components of the order

What you should see: the system opens a new bill of materials with a name starting "BoM mới từ" followed by the order code, Product is the new machine, Reference carries the order code, and the Components tab already has all three lines with the quantities of the order. Your company does not have to type them again.

Step 6 - Save the bill of materials

Click the save icon.

PathManufacturing > Products > Bills of Materials
Saved bill of materials of the new machine

What you should see: the bill of materials is saved, and the log on the right records that it was created. From here machine PE1000N-BA02 has a bill of materials like every other machine in the lesson "Read the assembly configuration". The original draft order was only used to build the bill of materials: your company can click Cancel on it, because a later sales order will generate its own order.

Step 7 - See the expected cost and update the cost price

On the bill of materials just saved, click the BoM Overview button. Then open the new machine product (Inventory > Products > Products) and click Compute Price from BoM next to the Cost field.

PathManufacturing > Products > Bills of Materials > BoM mới từ XLR/MO/... > BoM Overview
BoM Overview of the new machine
Cost of the new machine after clicking Compute Price from BoM

What you should see: BoM Overview shows an expected cost of 11,124,000 VND (embedded computer 3,513,000 VND, two SSD drives 7,026,000 VND, power cable 585,000 VND); the embedded computer line has an arrow because it also has a bill of materials of its own. After you click Compute Price from BoM, the Cost field of the product shows 10,970,000 VND, computed from the cost saved on each component. The two numbers differ slightly because they are computed differently; the real cost of the machine is the number on the order when it is completed, as in the lesson "Read the machine cost: from components to account 155". If you skip this step, the cost of the new machine stays at 0 and the Margin line on the quotation reports 100%.

Step 8 - Create the sales order for the new machine for Bình An

Create a new quotation: the customer is Công ty CP Sản xuất Chiếu sáng Đô thị Bình An; on the Other Info tab choose Warehouse "Xưởng lắp ráp", add product PE1000N-BA02, quantity 1. Click the save icon.

PathSales > Orders > Quotations > New
Quotation for machine PE1000N-BA02 for Bình An

What you should see: the order line shows one machine at 14,500,000 VND, tax 10%, total 15,950,000 VND. Now that the cost is updated, the Margin line reads 3,530,000 VND (24.34%).

Step 9 - Confirm the order

Click the Confirm button.

PathSales > Orders > Quotations > S00226
Bình An's order confirmed, with the Manufacturing button

What you should see: the order becomes "Sales Order", with the Delivery and Manufacturing buttons, each with the number 1. The system has already generated the assembly of the new machine according to the bill of materials just created, with no extra work from anyone.

Step 10 - Open the assembly order of the new machine

Click the Manufacturing button.

PathSales > Orders > Quotations > S00226 > Manufacturing
Assembly order of the new machine following the bill of materials just created

What you should see: order XLR/MO/... at "Confirmed", Bill of Material reads "BoM mới từ XLR/MO/...", and the three components are all "Available", with the quantities 1.00, 2.00 and 1.00 reserved. Leave this order as it is; to complete it, follow the lesson "Finish the machine, assign the serial number and complete the order".

Lesson 36. When components are missing

About 8 minutes. This lesson is read-only and does not create any shortage. By the end of it your company knows where the system reports missing components and how to read the reservation status of an order.

Step 1 - See the same bill of materials at another warehouse

Open the BoM Overview of machine PE1100N-DA04, click the Forecast switch, and leave the Warehouse box at "Kho Hà Nội" (the default).

PathManufacturing > Products > Bills of Materials > PE1100N-DA04 > BoM Overview > Forecast
Same bill of materials, Kho Hà Nội holds no components: three lines say To Buy

What you should see: the usable and on-hand quantities are 0.00 / 0.00; each component has a red label "1.00 To Buy" and an estimated date in the Availability column that follows the lead time of the vendor. The Route column names the vendor it would be bought from. This is what an order created in a place that holds no components looks like.

Step 2 - Read the reservation status on the order

Open any assembly order in the manufacturing orders list and look at the Component Status field and the status column of each component line.

PathManufacturing > Operations > Manufacturing Orders
Order with components Available and reserved

What you should see: when all components are present, Component Status is "Available" in green and each line is "Available"; MO Readiness becomes "Ready". When components are missing, the Component Status field and the missing component lines show "Not Available", and the order is "Waiting". The Unreserve button on the order releases the components already reserved so that another order can use them.

Step 3 - Decide how to handle it

Your company handles it in one of two ways, depending on the technician: - receive more components into the assembly workshop: buy them in Purchasing, then receive them in Warehouse and serial numbers, then reopen the order and look at Component Status; - switch to another machine that still has all its components, by checking the BoM Overview of the Xưởng lắp ráp warehouse as in Step 1 of the lesson "Sell an assembled machine to Thanh Bình and open the automatic order".

PathManufacturing > Operations > Manufacturing Orders
Comparison: the same bill of materials at the Xưởng lắp ráp warehouse has all components

What you should see: at the Xưởng lắp ráp warehouse the same bill of materials reads "Available" for all three components; at Kho Hà Nội it reads "To Buy". The two screenshots side by side show that the stock on hand decides whether an order can run or has to wait.

Lesson 37. Assembly reports

About 12 minutes. By the end of this lesson your company knows which report answers each question about assembly.

Step 1 - See all orders grouped by machine

Go to Manufacturing, choose Operations, Manufacturing Orders. Remove the "To Do" filter, click the arrow next to the search box, choose Group By and then Product.

PathManufacturing > Operations > Manufacturing Orders
Manufacturing orders grouped by machine, each group with its number of orders and total quantity

What you should see: each machine is a group, with the machine name followed by the number of orders in brackets, and the Quantity column is the total number of machines ordered for assembly. Click a group to see each order, its source sales order and its status.

Step 2 - See the number of orders by month

On the same screen, click the table icon (the fourth button in the group of view-switching buttons) at the top right.

PathManufacturing > Operations > Manufacturing Orders
Pivot table of the number of orders by month

What you should see: a pivot table with a Total row and one row per month; the Count column is the number of orders in the month. Click Measures to add the quantity, and click a row header to break it down by machine or by status.

Step 3 - See the components currently in the assembly workshop

Go to Inventory, choose Reporting, Locations. Type XLR in the search box and choose "Search Location for".

PathInventory > Reporting > Locations
Component stock by serial number at XLR/Tồn kho

What you should see: each row is a component at "XLR/Tồn kho"; a component tracked by serial number shows each separate serial number, and the Reserved Quantity column shows how many are reserved for waiting orders. This number changes by the day, so read it on the screen rather than writing it down.

Step 4 - See which components an order used, and on what date

Do as in Step 5 of the lesson "Read the machine cost: from components to account 155": Inventory > Reporting > Moves History, search by the reference of an order.

PathInventory > Reporting > Moves History
Stock moves of an assembly order

What you should see: the component lines moving to "Production" and the machine returning to "XLR/Tồn kho", as in the cost lesson.

List of reports

Report Path Question it answers
Manufacturing Orders (list, grouped by machine) Manufacturing > Operations > Manufacturing Orders How many orders each machine has; which orders are waiting, being assembled or done; which sales order generated each order
Manufacturing Orders as a pivot table and chart Manufacturing > Operations > Manufacturing Orders (pivot button, graph button) Number of orders and number of machines assembled, by month and by machine
MO Overview (button on the order) Manufacturing > Operations > Manufacturing Orders > Overview Unit cost of the machine and the real cost of each component
BoM Overview (button on the bill of materials) Manufacturing > Products > Bills of Materials > BoM Overview Expected cost from the bill of materials; turn on Forecast to see whether the components are sufficient or missing, warehouse by warehouse
Traceability (button on the order) Manufacturing > Operations > Manufacturing Orders > Traceability Which serial number the machine carries out of which order, and which components were used
Lots/Serial Numbers Manufacturing > Products > Lots/Serial Numbers Look up one serial number: which location it is in
Locations Inventory > Reporting > Locations Which location holds the components and machines, with which serial numbers, and how many are reserved
Stock Inventory > Reporting > Stock Stock of each product by warehouse, unit cost and total value
Moves History Inventory > Reporting > Moves History Each time a component entered an order and a machine returned to the warehouse, on which day, with which serial number
Moves Analysis Inventory > Reporting > Moves Analysis Volume of moves by product, operation type and time
General Inventory Journal (S11-DN) Inventory > Vietnam Legal Reports > General Inventory Journal (S11-DN) Opening stock, receipts, issues and closing stock of components and machines, in the Vietnamese accounting form
Stock Card (S12-DN) Inventory > Vietnam Legal Reports > Stock Card (S12-DN) Movement of one item, document by document
Product Journal (S10-DN) Inventory > Vietnam Legal Reports > Product Journal (S10-DN) Detailed ledger of receipts, issues, balance and value of the components
Account Detail Sheet (S38-DN) Accounting > Reporting > Vietnam Accounting Reports > Account Detail Sheet (S38-DN) Movements of accounts 154 and 155 for the assembly orders
Work Orders, Overall Equipment Effectiveness Manufacturing > Reporting Operation time and machine efficiency; not used in assembly to order in this setup because the bills of materials have no operations

Lesson 38. Self-study exercises

About 30 minutes. Your company does three exercises on its own, without step-by-step guidance. The customers and machines are used as in the lessons above.

Exercise 1 (10 minutes). Sell one more machine that already has a bill of materials. Choose, from the list of bills of materials, a machine other than PE1100N-DA04 for which the BoM Overview (Forecast on, warehouse "Xưởng lắp ráp") reports all components available. Create a quotation for one machine for Công ty CP Sản xuất Chiếu sáng Đô thị Bình An, choose the "Xưởng lắp ráp" warehouse, confirm, complete the order, deliver. Self-check: the cost on the Overview of the order equals the cost of the machine line on the BoM Overview; there are two journal entries referencing the order code, one debiting 154 and one debiting 155; the delivery transfer carries exactly the serial number that was assigned.

Exercise 2 (15 minutes). Build a new machine by creating the bill of materials directly. Create the product "Industrial Computer PE1000N-BA03" (category "Thành phẩm (Lắp ráp) / PC Full", tracked by serial number, MTO route). This time do not use a draft order: go to Manufacturing > Products > Bills of Materials, click New, choose the new machine, and add one PE1000N-NTIC embedded computer, one lexar 256GB SSD drive and one power cable. Sell two machines to Công ty CP Sản xuất Khuôn mẫu Chính xác Thanh Bình. Self-check: the generated order has quantity 2 and three component lines needing 2 of each; to complete it you must assign two serial numbers; the entry on 155 is the cost of the two machines.

Exercise 3 (5 minutes). Read, do not create. From Moves History, find the serial number of the storage drive used in order XLR/MO/00067 of the Thanh Bình sale lesson, then say where that drive is now. Self-check: the storage drive moved to "Production" when the order was completed and is no longer in the stock of XLR/Tồn kho; the serial number of the machine has been delivered to the customer Thanh Bình.

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