We are a manufacturer of a perishable product.
We consider our stock the finished goods we have ready for our customers.
All the components needed for the finished goods are delivered to input, go through a quality check and then to the location Raw Materials.
The production process is split into 3 manufacture operations.
First we need to produce a component which is used for step 2 the production of Semi-Finished-Goods.
Afterwards we split the Semi-Finished-Goods into different Finished Goods.
Now to my Questions:
1. Does it make sense, that we have an exclusive operation type for each movement of the product from one to another location. Or is it recommended to use just one operation type which could be called internal transfer and manually adjust the source and destination location in each route?
Reason for the question: in my opinion there are to many operation types in our workflow, maybe the detailed transfers make more sense, once our production capacity is fully utilised.
2. We implemented a new route (receive in 3 steps). The route is only available for product categories (as of now Raw Materials). Although there is only one product category which has this route (i double checked), the route appears on all of our products. Did I miss something? is this a bug?
3. As mentioned we store our components in the location raw material as full packages. When we have a production we move the components needed to the staging room. We are not allowed to take partial packagings and let the rest in the location raw materials. This means we always have to move whole packages. The raw material which is not used in this production will stay in the staging room. When it's fully consumed the next package will be transferred from Raw Materials to Staging Room.
If we choose kg instead of units for the UOM of the raw materials, how can I tell the system, that only full packages of the raw material can be moved to the staging room?
Thanks for any advice / suggestion.