Shop floors and logistics paths

Shop floors and logistics paths

Shop floors are production areas, the part of your factory or workshop where goods are made. Marking a location as a shop floor will enable manufacturing features for that location.

Logistics paths in Cin7 Core reflect the physical movements of components and finished goods to and from your shop floor. Logistic paths decide the lead times when scheduling, log stock movements, and create purchase and transfer orders.

You need to define a shop floor and logistics path before you start creating production orders. You will also need to set up your work centers and bins.

Prerequisites

  • Advanced Manufacturing must be included in or added on to your subscription.

Define shop floor locations

The first step is to define where production or manufacturing will take place. You will need at least one shop floor in your organization to use the Advanced Manufacturing module features. You can create a new location or mark an existing location as a shop floor.

  1. Select Settings from the main menu, then Reference Books.

  2. Open Locations and bins and select the Locations tab.

  3. Click + Add to add a new location. Enter the shop floor name and address. Alternatively, select an existing location.

  4. Select Shop floor as the Type.

  5. Save your changes.

NOTE: You can edit the shop floor location name at any time and it will be updated everywhere (production orders, documents) it is used.

You can't delete a location or bin if it has been used in any orders.

     

Set up bins for shop floor locations

Bins are where stock is stored in a shop floor. Bins also define where components are taken before and after production operations.

For example, to produce a chair, wood, paint and textile are needed.

  • Wood, paint, and fabric (components) use the consumption bin set up for chair production. The components and resources needed for the chair are pulled from inventory and delivered to the bin.

  • The completed chair (finished product) is placed in the output bin when production is completed.

Each production work center can have a Consumption bin and an Output bin. Alternatively, work centers can pick components or place finished products from/to the shop floor if no bin is selected, or the same bin can be used for both consumption and output. See Consumption and output bins to see if you need both, neither, or only consumption bins for your shop floor.

  1. Select Settings from the main menu, then Reference Books.

  2. Open Locations and bins and select the Locations tab.

  3. Select a shop floor Location.

  4. Select the Bins tab.

  5. Click + Add.

  6. Enter a bin name.

  7. Save your changes.

When you have finished adding bins, you can connect them to your work centers.

  

Set up logistics path

The logistics path defines three types of object location.

  • Components: Where products are stored

  • Demand: Where products are sold

  • Shop floor: Where products are manufactured.

Components, demand, and shop floor can be the same location, but it must be a shop floor location.

You might have a range of locations with a warehouse in Denver, a store in New York, and a factory in Detroit. Alternatively, you might store, manufacture, and sell products all from the same single location. As in real life, a product cannot be in two places simultaneously and cannot be transferred between locations at the click of the mouse. The physical movement of stock requires time and must be triggered by an action; logistics paths are set up to reflect this.

  1. Select Settings from the main menu, then Reference Books.

  2. Open Locations and bins and select the Locations tab.

  3. Click the + Add button to add a new logistics path.

  4. Select locations for each of the following fields. You can use the same location for multiple fields, or all fields. Each components or demand location can be connected to multiple shop floor locations. However, each shop floor location can only be connected to one warehouse.

    • Components: Select a storage location where components will be picked from. If you do not have enough components in your shop floor, Cin7 Core will transfer components from here.

    • Shop floor: Select a production location.

    • Demand: Select a location where your finished products will be sold.

  5. Save your changes.

You can't delete a logistics path, or change any of the locations within it, if it has been used as part of a production order or sales order.

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