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298 PART 3 Managing with the MRP System
FIGURE 17-1
Finished Part
Remanufacturing
bill of material.
Replacement
Part
Replacement
Part
Received Core
142095 Clock, disassembly
142503 Inner works –1 each
123291 Hands –2 each
123032 Face –0.5 each
136958 Clock 1 each
Notice that this BOM contains a negative amount for three of the items. This allows stan-
dard material planning systems to be used to control the remanufacturing operation. Since
MRP was designed originally to support a one-to-one or many-to-one relationship between
components and parents parts, attempting to plan multiple parent parts on a single order is
not possible. Having a negative amount in the BOM allows a standard system to handle the
fact that one item is made into many in the initial remanufacturing disassembly phase.
The first step in a standard work-order release is to create a work-order number and
then issue the materials to that order. In this case, the order would be created for the dis-
