Creating Product Structure — Exercises

IMPORTANT
It is extremely important that you set up and work within your own site to maintain your data integrity. If you work within any other site, you will compromise your own exercise data as well as the data of other students. Predictable exercise results require that your data be isolated in your own site.

Required Data

Entering Inventory Part

Purpose: The purpose of this exercise is to show you how to set up the basic data required for running this particular functionality.

Windows:
Copy Parts to Site

Note: If you already have the racing engine parts in your site, use your existing parts. These parts all have part numbers with the format 20–nnn.

  1. Copy all parts from Site 1 to your site using 200 as the value for Commodity Group 2.
  2. Save your changes.

General exercise for Creating Manufactured Inventory Part

General exercise for Copying Parts to Site

Main Exercises

Purpose: The purpose of these exercises is to familiarize you with the functionality for entering a product structure for a part that will be manufactured.

Windows:
Product Structure

Creating Product Structure Top Level

Note: When an inventory part with the Purchased, Manufactured, or Repair part type is saved, a product structure header is created.

  1. Open the Product Structure window.
  2. Query for Part 20–250 on your site.
  3. Click the Product Structure tab, and enter Default as the alternate description for the * (asterisk) alternative. 
  4. Click the Product Structure tab, and enter parts marked with green according to the structure described below. 
  5. Create a new line.
  6. Enter the component parts (green boxes in the diagram below)  in the Component Part column. Use the List of Values to select from the available parts. In the Quantity per Assembly column, enter the quantity of the component to go into one of the parent parts.
  7. Save your changes.
  8. In the Status field, change the status to Buildable using the right mouse button menu.

Entering Parts on Lower Levels

  1. Open the Product Structure window.
  2. Query for Part 20–250 on your site.
  3. Select the manufactured part, right-click, and then click Next Level to move to the next level.
  4. Click the Product Structure tab, and enter Default as the alternate description for the * (asterisk) alternative. 
  5. Enter the component parts (marked with blue)  in the Component Part column. Use the List of Values to select from the available parts. In the Quantity per Assembly column, enter the quantity of the component to go into one of the parent parts.
  6. Save your changes.
  7. In the Status field, change the status to Buildable using the right mouse button menu.
  8. Go to Line Item 1, right-click, and then click Previous Level to move to a higher level.

Note: You can change the status of an alternative using a right mouse button option in the header portion of the Product Structure window.