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After Finding a kit and if it has NOT been previously pulled, the following procedure is performed
MANUAL KIT
If you would like to see if there is part availability for the highlighted part number before going to the next step depress the "Inventory" button.
Depress the Edit action button again and the following selection will appear: Depress the Issue Parts button to continue or X to cancel. If you depress the Issue Parts button and type in the password the Issue Tab screen is displayed: This screen is divided into four operational sections.
The user first selects a part from the kit status section. Place the cursor on a part manufucturer in the inventory status screen and drag it to the Picked Status section in the center of the right side of the screen. To drag, place the cursor on the line indicating an available quantity. Do not remove your finger from the mouse. While you are in the process of dragging, you will see an outline of a hand holding a document. Pull the cursor down to the Pick quantity section. To drop, remove your finger from the mouse. Those manufacturers approved for the bill of material will have the manufacturer preceded with an A. When inventory from the Inventory Status section is dragged to the Picked Status section, the quantity required for the work order is subtracted from the original quantity in inventory. If there is insufficient quantity in inventory, an additional lot may be dragged to the picked status section. If the quantity of parts needed is less than the quantity in inventory, only the quantity needed will be transferred. While still in the Pick Status, the user may modify the quantities being picked. Increasing the quantity that is required for the kit (if there is more available in inventory) will place the extra parts in the overissued qty column. The shortage column will display the over-issues as negative shortages. By reducing the quantity, the remainder of the parts will be returned to inventory. If not returned to Inventory, unused parts in the overissued inventory will continue to be considered as available for use by MRP actions. Other kits may be kitted using these parts. To change the amount Picked, place the cursor on the amount picked. A white box will display. Type the revised amount picked in the white box and depress the Enter key.
REAL TIME KITTING FEATURE When you first enter the ISSUE screen and if you just continue through and Drag & Drop items as described above all of the transactions will be saved to the system upon depressing the Save Record Icon. But as soon as you depress the Next button the system will begin to save the records immediately and the Save and Cancel icons will became inactive. This has been added so our users can begin real-time kitting and since intended for a wireless network connection we need to save individual pulled records instead of the entire kit pull save. Below is a description of how this feature is intended to operate:
This will then bring them back to the Main Kitting screen.
ENTER SERIAL NUMBERS If the Part Number highlighted in the left column, is a serialized part, highlight the Available Quantity. Drag and drop into the Pick Quantity space (as described above). The quantity will appear as 0 in pick quantity. Click on pick quantity and manually fill in quantity. The following screen will appear: All serial numbers for this part number will appear in the left hand column. Highlight the serial numbers you want used for this work order click on the > arrows. They will appear in the right hand column. If you overissued you must highlight the serial numbers for the overissued quantity click on the > arrows and they will appear in the bottom right hand screen. Once the serial numbers that are to be used for this work order appear in the right hand column depress the OK button. Depress the ‘DONE’ Button or ‘Save’ button. The completed Main tab screen appears as below: 
NOTE: MRP is designed to calculate from the Kit Shortage and not from the Lead times once the parts have been pulled to the kit and the kit status is changed to "Kit in Process". Once the parts have been pulled to the kit, the systems is assuming that the shortages are needed by the WO due date, rather than the Prooduction lead time, so MRP then calculates using the due date of the WO as the date the materials must be on hand, MRP no longer takes the production lead time into consideration.
AUTO KIT
If the Bill of Material does not have any components that are kitted, then no kitting will be done. Kitting Preference Hierarchy When Kitting Manex picks from Approved AVL's then in numeric sequence. (1 before 2, 2 before 3, etc.) "99" is the default preference number, if no preferences are entered, then other un-controllable factors affect which is picked first. If the user wants to have a specific warehouse picked first, then they are to enter a preference number such as "1" in the preference field within the Quantity Info screen within Inventory Control Mgmt .
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