There may be times in an organization where an item needs to be disassembled. This can be due to the nature of the organization that disassembles an item as their primary business function, such as the disassembly of a used car for use as spare parts. Apart from that, other possibilities include the disassembly of an item that was assembled previously for a temporary period. This could be the disassembly of display furniture whereby, as the final piece of furniture, it is disassembled for packing and resell.
To disassemble an item in Exact Globe, you need to create a production order to reflect this. The rationale for this is that an order needs to be created in order to disassemble the item.
To disassemble an item, go to Manufacturing/Entries/Production orders and then click on the Disassemble button.
Type or select the relevant warehouse where the items that require disassembly are stored. Selecting the correct warehouse here affects the choosing of the item later as the system ensures that the item selected is present in the warehouse.
Type or select the parent project of this disassembly production order.
Enter a description for this disassembly production order. This serves to provide extra information about the order.
The Cost center of the resource that created the production order is displayed. This information cannot be edited.
In normal circumstances, labor hour, machine hour and extra charges are not listed for the disassembly of an item. However, these items can be added individually, where required. In such a case, you can select the bill of material (BOM) to show Labor hour, Machine and/or Extra charge.
This process flow displays the status of the disassembly production order. Once a step is completed, you will see a green check mark and the completion date under the corresponding process step. A red cross indicates that the step is not completed while “Skip” indicates that the step is not mandatory.
However, not all steps in the process flow are available. For example, if authorization is not mandatory as defined at System/General/Settings, under Manufacturing settings, then the Authorized process step will not appear.
The process flow also allows you to process the disassembly production order by clicking the relevant process step. For example, if you want to authorize the disassembly production order, click Authorized.
A green check mark and a date indicate that the production order has been entered on the shown date.
Click this to authorize the production order. If the production order is already authorized, clicking this will remove the authorization. A message “Already authorized” will be displayed. Click Continue to remove the authorization or Cancel to exit.
Click this to release the production order.
Note: If the authorization is not mandatory, as defined at System/General/Settings, under Manufacturing settings, then the Released process flow will appear with a green check mark and the word “Skip”.
Click this to print the production order.
Click this to issue the production order.
Click this to enter the receipts for the production order.
Click this to complete the production order. A green check mark and the word “Yes” indicate that the production order have been set as completed. When a production order is completed, it is no longer possible to perform further actions to it such as fulfilling it, issuing it, realizing the labor hours, or receiving items from it.
These buttons are not available as they are not related to the disassembly of an item.
These buttons are not available as they do not apply to the disassembly of an item. They are only available if it is a normal production order.
This button is enabled only after the disassembly order has been authorized. However, sources of a production order are available only if it is generated from a sales order or internal use. As such, it is not relevant for a disassembly order.
This button is enabled only after the disassembly order has been authorized. This is applicable when a back-to-back order needs to be generated due to insufficient stock of a part for the item. As such, this is not relevant for a disassembly order.
Click this to view the details of the project which is created automatically when the disassembly order is created.
Click this to view the material requirements planning (MRP) details of the disassembly order. However, being a disassembly order, there will not be any entries in the MRP.
This button is enabled only after the disassembly order has been authorized. This is used to split a production order into multiple orders. As such, it is not applicable to a disassembly order.
Click this button to reject the disassembly order.
Note: This button is unavailable during the creation of a disassembly order. It is available only after the order has been created.
Click this to create a new disassembly order.
Click this to exit.