Finished goods

Components, packaging, byproducts, burdens, and comments make up finished goods.

They are make-to-stock kit items and unlike make-to-order kits.

You can define a finished good for a company and production facility which must be set up as an inventory location.

Before you can define a finished good, you must have already added the components, kit item, by-product, and burden.

Components

All components for finished goods are required. Component types describe the type of component that can be assigned to the finished good. This table shows the four component types:
Component type Description
Component A normal component; you must specify a non-zero quantity on Finished Good. The component must be inventory-tracked.
Packaging A packaging item. You can specify either a zero quantity or a non-zero quantity on Finished Good. The packaging components must be tracked in inventory.
Offsite A component that is supplied by an offsite location. The offsite location performs part of the finished good production. You must specify a non-zero quantity on Finished Good.
Rework After production is complete, a finished good may require that further work be performed on it because of poor quality or incomplete assembly.

Another work order can be created for the finished good by adding the item as a component of itself, and selecting the rework component type. You do this using Finished Goods or Production Order.

Offsite locations are external locations that add components to a finished good. They are defined in Location but not as a production facility.

Byproducts and Burdens

Byproducts are products that are created as a result of producing a finished good. For example, for a finished good that consists of a box of hamburger patties, a by-product might be edible fat. The fat can be ground up to use in chicken feed. You can sell byproducts in addition to selling the finished good. Byproducts must be set up as inventoried items and must be assigned to a location.

A burden that is assigned to this finished good can be the machine setup time.

Attachments

When you define finished goods using Finished Good, you can attach comments to these finished goods:

  • Burdens
  • Finished goods
  • Components
  • Byproducts

This table shows how the attachment feature works on Finished Good.

Note: The comments that you attach on Finished Good are copied to the Production Management solution during work order explosion. See the Production Management User Guide.

Use these instructions to attach comments:

Attach comments Description
Burdens Select the Code field on the Burdens tab. Select the Attachments option and click the Add button. Provide the burden notes.
Finished goods Select the Item field. Select the Attachments option and provide the assembly instructions for the finished good.
Components Select the Item field on the Components tab. Select the Attachments option and provide the component notes.
Byproducts Select the Byproducts button within the Finished Good tab. Click the Byproducts button. In the Item field, select the Attachments option and provide the byproduct notes.