The sections that follow demonstrate how the process of planning and manufacturing electronic boards is accomplished with the Parts-in-Place system.
Planning New Builds
The primary goal of planning builds, from the Parts-in-Place system perspective, is to come up with a list of parts that need to be ordered to complete these builds. Of course, the list must take into account the quantities of parts that you already have...
Managing Inventory
In order for Parts-in-Place to calculate the quantities of parts that you need to order for upcoming builds, the system has to know the quantities of parts you already have in your inventory.
You can convey this information to the system by entering...
Completing Assemblies
So, you have ordered the parts, shipped them off to your Contract Manufacturer (CM), and now the CM is completing the build for you. For the purpose of tracking inventory, you need to record in the system the use of these parts for the build. This is...
