VA internal fabrication

Internal fabrication are the processes you apply to a product in-house to add value to it. You may have a complete department devoted to fabricating products. This topic describes the tasks that are typically completed for internal fabrication.

Initiate the fabrication Value Add order. There are three ways to do this:
- You can enter a VA transaction to fabricate the product in VA Order Entry. In this case, you may be fabricating the product to put it on the shelf and sell to a customer at a later time. You can also select an existing order to maintain it.
- You can run the VA Entry Recommended Replenishment Action Report to create fabrication VA transactions for the fabricated products to be replenished in inventory. For a product to be included in VA Entry Recommended Replenishment Action Report, you must select Fab VA as the Authorized Replenishment Path (ARP) Type in Product Warehouse Product Setup. This indicates that the product is normally replenished through the Value Add fabrication process.
- You can create a customer order during Sales Order Entry for an out-of-stock VA product. You can specify fabrication by selecting Value Add in the Product Source field. Include a note to indicate that the product is a VA product that requires fabrication. The Value Add order is tied to the sales order, and the fabricated product is returned to the warehouse or sent directly to the customer.
Print a pick ticket from VA Entry Processing Pick Tickets Report for those components to be taken from inventory.
Warehouse personnel pick the inventory using the pick ticket and ship components to the internal department from VA Shipping Entry. The shipping name and address are those of the internal department. The department may be in the same building or at another branch.
Print the VA Entry Processing Internal Value Add Print Report Value to identify sections for internal process (IT) fabrication or processes for your internal fabrication department. The internal department performs the fabrication. Labor (time) is recorded in VA Internal Labor Time Entry. The finished product is shipped back to the original warehouse and labor charges are finalized.
Receive the finished product into inventory from VA Receipt of Inventory Entry. No invoice is received from a service vendor because this is an internal process. The VA order is closed.

You are not limited to a single internal process to fabricate a product. There can be sub-assemblies that are shipped to multiple warehouses or service departments for in-house processing. Or, a fabricated product may be processed by an external service vendor and further processed in-house.