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In the electronics industry, product competition is fierce, upgrades are rapid, product life cycles are short, and supply conditions are complex. In the process of R&D and production, there are often changes in a large number of electronic components and materials. Electronic components are highly substitutable, and there are many types and brands of electronic raw materials. Almost 20% - 50% of the materials, such as capacitors, involve the relationship management of substitute materials. In actual operation, a certain capacitor of BoM can be replaced by multiple brands according to the actual situation, each brand can have multiple suppliers, a certain component is often out of stock, and the priority selection of imported materials and domestic materials , These have increased the frequency of internal changes, improper management of details, prone to quality problems, and heavy workload for employees. The use of alternative component management has been an important method for electronics manufacturing companies to reduce costs.
The application of alternative material business scenarios is divided into the following situations:
- Complete substitution: Substitution relationship, some mature materials, materials from different brands and different suppliers, is a complete substitution relationship, that is to say, it can be replaced arbitrarily, completely, without difference;
- Partial substitution: For example, "Material A" existed before, and there were three complete substitutions (three suppliers) of A1, A2, and A3. Newly developed product B, a certain "material B" of this product has been verified to use A1, but A2 and A3 cannot be used. In addition, after research and development verification, A4 can also be used (the previous product cannot use A4 because it has not been verified. ).
- Designated substitute materials: For quality reasons, some customers require that only a few brands of components can be specified. In this case, they cannot be substituted at will.
- Similar substitution: Some electronic materials such as resistors, capacitors, diodes, integrated circuits, etc. have similar specifications and can be substituted for each other. When there is a shortage of electronic components and materials, and alternative electronic components are in stock, they can be replaced directly.
The help of alternative material management to enterprises
Alternative materials are used in research, production, supply, sales, procurement, and storage. If there is an automated alternative material management mechanism, the above problems can be easily avoided and realized in various business scenarios. Cross-departmental collaborative alternative material management helps companies:
1. Reduce procurement costs, reduce inventory backlog waste, and avoid capital occupation
2. Avoid quality hazards and return risks caused by improper material picking
3. Effectively improve cross-departmental collaboration efficiency
4. Avoid 5. Promote the competition of external suppliers
, forcing suppliers to improve quality, reduce costs, speed up delivery and service.
We open source and intelligently manufacture OSCG enhanced alternative materials based on the free and open source one-stop Odoo platform. The solution meets the management needs of production-oriented enterprises for alternative materials, enabling them to efficiently switch between main materials and alternative materials in daily operations, quickly respond to material shortages and replacements, and ensure normal production operations.
Diagram of Odoo alternative material solution:
Basic data of alternative material maintained in BoM:
For the generated production order, because there are alternative materials for the raw materials, the generated MO is in the draft state. After manually confirming whether to replace it, go down to the next-level replenishment demand document:
The production scheduler sets the quantity of raw materials and substitute materials here, whether to replace all or part of them:
Products that do not use substitute materials generate Mo through replenishment, which has been automatically confirmed
Manually create Mo with substitute material
The above is a brief introduction of Odoo alternative materials. If you are interested in the application of alternative materials in manufacturing or are selecting ERP models for your enterprise, welcome to the official website of Open Source Intelligent Manufacturing for system demonstrations and case sharing.