Hello there,
We have just created a training cell in our machine shop, and my current task is to set this up on our SAP system. I have created work centres, capacities and it is all ready to go, however I would like to implement a buffer system for these work centres only.
The idea is that a volume of work will be available to the trainer, and he will be planning his chosen workload on day to day level. We have agreed that any component going into this cell will be processed within three weeks of entering. I need to find a way of reflecting this to MRP, which I assume will take the latest finish date and apply it.
Essentially I am looking to create a Queue that applies to these work centres, but only applies once in a production order route. We have multiple operations that apply to these work centres within one route (Turn 1st Side, Turn 2nd Side Etc), and applying the Std and Minimum Queues in the Work Centre's Scheduling Tab applies these to every operation, which is not what I am intending to do. I would like to have a single Queue time that is added to the first instance of the Work Centre appearing in a route.
Is there a way of easily doing this, or will this have to be set up on a Route by Route basis?