The nesting wizard takes the items that you need to fabricate from a Preliminary List or a Detailed List and suggests an optimal way to cut them from either the material that you have available in your inventory, free purchase orders or material that you are going to source from suppliers or mills.
Launch the Nesting Wizard in one of the following ways:
§ Open a Contract Prelim Listing form
(see Find
and edit a prelim listing).
Click Actions (button) > Nesting
and Ordering > AutoCut or Manual Nest
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In order to nest to a selection in the prelim, make sure the prelim marks you wish to choose are released first. |
§ Open a Production Nesting and Ordering
form (see Select
mark items to nest).
Click the Items to Nest tab.
In the list, select the items that you want to nest.
Click Actions (button) > Nesting
and Ordering > AutoCut or Manual Nest
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Only Mark Items that have been lotted and released in the Lotting module are available for Nesting and Ordering. |
The wizard is described below.
Use this screen to specify the sources that you want to use to provide the material needed for the Contract. These include the inventory, suppliers, steel mills, and any material that is on order but has not yet been received.
For full details, see Nesting Wizard - Setup Options.
Click Next to continue to the next screen.
This screen lists the material that you need for the Contract and the possible suppliers you will purchase this material from. You can exclude materials from the list and specify which suppliers you want to use.
There are buttons on the screen that allow you to weld lengths of steel together and also to access settings that are used to:
§ Specify lengths for steel suppliers- where lengths can be manually added against line items and then potentially saved back against the chosen supplier in the Item Library.
§ Optimise the nesting process
§ Nest theoretical offcuts
§ Specify the order in which material in the inventory is used
For full details, see Nesting Wizard - Select Suppliers and Inventory Lengths.
Click Next to continue to the next screen.
This screen shows the cuts that are suggested by the nesting engine. If you are using manual nesting processes you can manually amend the nesting results if necessary (see Manual Nesting).
For full details, see Nesting Wizard - Nesting Results.
Click Next to continue to the next screen.
For each source that you selected in the previous screens, you can do one of the following:
§ Allocate the material to the Contract and raise a Purchase Order with your supplier.
§ Save the nest and raise RFQs (Requests For Quotation) for your supplier so that you can check on cost prices and availability.
For full details, see Nesting Wizard - Inventory, Suppliers and RFQ.
Click Next to continue to the next screen.
This is the final screen of the wizard.
If you elected to raise Purchase Orders in the previous screen, you can specify that they should be automatically released and displayed when the wizard finishes.
If you elected to save the nest, you can specify a name and description.
For full details, see Nesting Wizard - Complete.
When you have selected/completed the relevant options, click Finish to create purchase orders and RFQs, and to save the nest.
If you are running the wizard from a Preliminary Listing, saved nests are listed on the Contract Prelim Listing - Details form, under the Saved Nests tab. Double-click the line to open the nest.
If you are running the wizard from the production Nesting and Ordering module, saved nests are listed on the Production Nesting and Ordering - Items to Nest form, under the Saved Nests tab. Double-click the line to open the nest.
