Components

A component is an item that is assigned to a kit item for production. Both item components and kit items must be defined in the Inventory Control solution before the kit and component relationships can be defined. These are the types of components:

• Normal
• Packaging
• Offsite
• Rework

Normal components and packaging components must be set up as inventoried items at an inventory location for your company. Examples of packaging components are plastic wrap, boxes, box liners, and pallets.

Normal and packaging components can be set up as catch weight items. They can also be tracked by bin, lot, serial number, or multiple unit of measure. Packaging components are always optional when assembling a finished good, even though they are part of the bill of materials.

Offsite components are owned by an offsite location and used during the offsite production process. When offsite components are included in the bill of material, you must assign an offsite location to the offsite component. Planned quantities of these components are tracked in the Production Management solution. The actual quantities that are used and individual costs for offsite components are not tracked in the Production Management, Inventory Control, or Global Ledger solutions.

The cost of offsite components and any other offsite production costs, are defined as a burden when the work order is returned from offsite production.