Nesting Wizard - Select Suppliers and Inventory Lengths

This form shows you the lengths of steel that you need (in the Required Sections grid) and the lengths that are available from the sources that you selected on the previous form (in the Lengths/Quantities Available grid). It allows you to refine your requirements and your sources.

Required Sections grid

This grid lists the steel items that are required to fabricate the mark items that were chosen from the nesting and ordering grid. For each item, potential suppliers (including the inventory) are listed. The grid has the following features, as shown in the illustration below:

You can:

§ Click an item row (preceded by the icon) to list all of the available suppliers in the Lengths/Quantities Available grid at the bottom of the form.

§ Expand an item row to view the possible sources for the steel item.
To do this, click the + sign as shown in the illustration below. For the resulting source rows, the following features and actions are available:

§ Each row is preceded by one of the following icons:
means that the source is the inventory.
means that the source is a supplier or steel mill.
means that the source is a theoretical offcut.

§ Click a source row to list the available suppliers in the Lengths/Quantities Available grid.

§ Edit the Unit Price and Price Unit fields for a regular supplier or steel mill.
See About unit prices.

§ You can elect to use alternative steel sections that may be available in the inventory. On the Inventory row, specify whether the alternative sections can be of a higher grade, lower grade, or the same grade. See About grades.

Buttons

Button	Description
Edit	Click the Edit button in the Item column to open the Item Picker. This form allows you to substitute the listed steel item for a different one. You can also click the New button to define an item in the item library. The Lengths/Quantities Available grid is automatically updated.
View/Edit	Click the View/Edit button in the Mark(s) column to open the Required Marks form This form allows you to: § Select the marks that you want to nest (select or clear the check boxes in the Include column) § Substitute the listed steel item for a different one. To do this, click the Edit button in the Item column. The Item Picker is displayed. Specify an alternative steel item and click OK. On the Nesting Wizard - Select Suppliers and Inventory Lengths form, new rows are created to accommodate your changes. The Lengths/Quantities Available grid is automatically updated.
Batch Update	Click the Batch Update button to edit the selected rows. See Batch update required sections.
Check/Uncheck	Select or clear the Include check box for a source row to indicate whether this source is to be included in the nesting process. To select or clear the check box for multiple rows, select the rows and click the Check/Uncheck button.

Lengths/Quantities Available

When you select either an item row or a supplier row in the Required Sections grid, the material that is available is listed here in the Lengths/Quantities Available grid.

You can:

§ Select the supplier(s) from whom you want to source material in the nesting process. To do this, select the check box in the Include column. To select or clear the check box for multiple suppliers, select the rows and click the Check/Uncheck button.
The status of the material is indicated by the following icons:
This means that the material is an offcut length.
This represents a supplier length.
This icon represents material that is considered free inventory.
This represents material that is allocated. If the allocation column is turned on in the grid options, the designation can be seen.
This represents bars that have been welded together.

§ Update the quantity, length, unit price, price unit and supplier price for each supplier.
See About unit prices.

§ Create a new row in the table by welding two bars together.
See Weld selected lengths together.

Buttons

Button	Description
Check/Uncheck	Use this button to select or clear the check box for multiple suppliers. Select the rows and click the button.
Actions	See Weld selected lengths together.
AutoCut Settings	See AutoCut Settings.

Generic buttons

Button

Description

Move to the previous Nesting Wizard form.

The nesting wizard reviews the material that you require to fabricate the listed marks and the material that is available. Based on the choices that you made here on the Select Suppliers and Inventory Lengths form and those that you made in AutoCut Settings, it allocates the material and presents the results on the next screen.

The nesting engine used to perform this action will depend on the material ( is it linear or nonlinear) and the chosen engine in the autocut settings.

Default nesting engines can be setup at the Facility level, in Production Options and in the Autocut Settings. Default engines set at the facility level will be overridden by the production option setting and the autocut will override both of these.