Manual
Assembly
Assembly makes an item out of other items. An item’s assembly BOM says what goes into one unit of it; an assembly order makes a quantity of it at a location. Posting the order takes the components out of stock at their cost and puts the item made into stock at the total of that cost, so a product is valued at what went into it.
At Passion Bakery, each product has an assembly BOM, its recipe for one: a white loaf takes 0.5 KG of wheat flour, 0.03 KG of sugar, 0.008 KG of dry yeast, 0.008 KG of salt, 0.02 L of vegetable oil and a bread bag. Each morning Grace posts an assembly order for each product baked that day: 250 white loaves take 125 KG of flour and the rest out of the store, and put 250 loaves in, valued at about 2,300 each.
The pages
| Page | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Assembly BOM | An item’s components, opened from the item card (or an assembly order) with Assembly BOM. |
| Assembly Orders | The orders not yet posted. |
| Assembly Order | One order: the item, quantity, location and date, and its Components. |
| Posted Assembly Orders, Posted Assembly Order | What was made, from what, and what it cost. |
Assembly Orders and Posted Assembly Orders are in the Accountant’s Inventory Processing menu.
Setup
Inventory Setup names two number series in its Number Series group: Assembly Order Nos. (AO… at the bakery) and Posted Assembly Order Nos. (PAO…). An assembly order can’t be made, or posted, without them.
In this manual
- Assembly BOMs: setting up what goes into an item.
- Assembly orders: making an order, its components, and changing them.
- Posting assembly: what posting checks and writes, the cost of what is made, and the general ledger.
Note
Assembly makes items to stock, and an order is posted whole. Resources such as labour or oven time can’t be components yet, an order can’t be posted in part, and a sales line can’t start an assembly.