Production Nesting and Ordering is the process by which you source the materials that you need for a Contract. It involves reviewing the items that you are going to fabricate, reviewing the material that you have available for the fabrication, and calculating a cutting plan that minimises material costs and wastage.
Before you make a start, you must have the following things in place:
§ A Detailed List of the items that you are going to fabricate for the Contract. Take a look at About detailed listings for more information.
§ Marks must be lotted and released before they can be nested. Take a look at Release marks for nesting and ordering for more information.
You can source material from either suppliers or steel mills, along with a selection of your Inventory, outstanding Purchase Orders and theoretical offcuts (meaning the leftovers from other nesting processes where the material has not yet been processed through Production but an expected portion of this is intended to return to Inventory once the process is complete).
You can manually adjust the potential options for material sourcing and amend the cutting plan if necessary; when you are happy with it, you can reserve material in line with the Contract, raise Purchase Orders for extra material that you need, or raise RFQs (Requests For Quotation) to send to suppliers to check cost prices and availability.
STRUMIS uses a wizard to guide you through the Nesting and Ordering process. However, to begin with you must select the mark items that you want to nest. See Select mark items to nest.
Access
To access Production Nesting and Ordering, click the Nesting and Ordering button on the Contract Ribbon. Alternatively, from the sidebar menu, go to Production > Nesting & Ordering.
When you view nesting information or launch the Nesting Wizard, you will use the Production Nesting and Ordering form. For more information on the functionality within the Nesting Wizard, continue to About the Nesting Wizard.