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Material Details tab
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Material Details tab
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The Material Details Level gives you the most visibility and control over material requirements for a job and material handling. For the job andr each operation in the job, material requirements can be identified.
In order to use this level of detail, the Inventory table must be populated with the inventory items numbers you are going to use for material requirements. You can add inventory information to the Inventory table through the Tables menu and select Inventories, or you can import inventory information using Import Inventory.
To use material details, the correct settings from Material Options and Material Grid Selections must be made.
Material details have similar options to both the Job and Operation material levels except that a “days to delay” does not exist. The Material Details Level uses the Expected Delivery dates of material items for an operation as the date to delay the operation as required.
The key fields looked at by the scheduler are when scheduling material details are:
The prompts for the Material Detail Level can then be selected for the Manufacturing Orders material grid using the Material Grid Selections. The example below shows the Manufacturing Orders material grid with all the material details prompts selected for display.
You can print the material information that is currently in the grid by clicking on the button:
When you click on this button, a Print message box will appear enabling you to print the grid information.
The following is an explanation of each of the Material Details prompts: