Nesting Wizard - Setup Options

Batch Name

This is a mandatory field.

Select a batch from the drop-down list or click the ellipsis button and define a batch on the resulting look-up form. The items that you are nesting are put into this batch.

See About batches.

Limit Locations to Facilities

These fields allow you to select a facility and or location within that facility. The inventory items that are available for nesting will then be limited to either the inventory for the selected facility or the inventory for the chosen location, respectively.

Limit Inventory to Locations

Sourcing Preferences

Use Suppliers

Select this check box if you want to fabricate the selected marks using material sourced from suppliers.

The options are:

§               Supplier Lengths
This option depends on the parameters set within the item library (on the Item - Purchasing Information tab):

§               The supplier that is set as the default for the item(s)

§               The standard lengths that are available from each supplier

§               The pricing of materials from the suppliers

Select the Supplier Lengths option here in the Nesting Wizard if you want to consider the standard lengths defined for the items' default suppliers. If you want to extend the search for appropriate standard lengths to all of the items' suppliers, also select the Use Multiple Suppliers check box.

§               Cut to Length
Select this option if you know that you're going to purchase material from a supplier and have the supplier cut the exact lengths that you need.

§               Mills Standard Length
This option depends on these parameters from elsewhere in the system:

§               In the supplier record (Supplier - Details tab), you can label a supplier as a steel mill.

§               In the item library (Item - Purchasing Information tab), you can list suppliers, including steel mills, of the item.

§               On the AutoCut Settings form (click the AutoCut Settings button at the bottom of this screen), set up the range of lengths that are available from the mill.

§               Rolling Dates, contained within the Roll Reference for the mill supplier, are in capacity and are aligned with the sections intended to nest to.

Select this option if you want to consider the standard lengths offered by the items' steel mill supplier.

§               Entered Lengths
The Nesting Wizard uses only lengths that you enter on the next wizard screen (Select Suppliers and Inventory Lengths).

§               Use Multiple Suppliers
With reference to the Supplier Lengths option above, select this check box if you want to consider lengths from all suppliers, not just the default supplier. This includes steel mills that also act as regular suppliers and have standard lengths defined on the Item - Purchasing Information tab.

Use Free Inventory

Select this check box if you want to fabricate the selected marks using material sourced from unallocated inventory.

Use Free Purchase Orders

Select this check box if you want to fabricate the selected marks using material sourced from outstanding (meaning not yet received and, therefore, not yet lodged in the inventory) Purchase Orders.

Use Theoretical Offcuts

Select this check box if you want to fabricate the selected marks using material sourced from the offcuts that result from existing uncut nests. On the AutoCut Settings form (click the AutoCut Settings button at the bottom of this screen), specify how marks should be nested. See Autocut Settings Theoretical Offcuts for more information.

Contract / Prelim Allocations

Allocated to this Contract

Select this option if you want to consider material that is allocated to this contract.

Allocated to this Batch

Select this option if you want to consider material that is allocated to this batch.

None

Select this option if you do not want to consider allocated material.

Match Prelim Mark Allocations

Not available for prelim nesting.

Select this option if you want to consider only material that is assigned to the corresponding prelim mark.

Theoretical Offcuts for the Contract

Not available for prelim nesting.

Select this check box if you want to consider only surplus material from other nests for this contract.

Purchase Orders

Facility

The facility, delivery location and delivery date that you specify here are included on any purchase orders that you raise at the end of the nesting process.

Default Delivery Location

Default Delivery Date

Show Values in

Select the currency in which to show prices.

Shape Options

Include CAM data

Use CAM data in preference to DXF data

Not available for prelim nesting.

Use these options if you want to have the nesting engine evaluate the mark item CAM data for angle and plate nesting.

Include DXF files
Use DXF data in preference to CAM data

Use these options if you want to have the nesting engine evaluate the mark item DXF data for plate nesting. Select a file path for the DXF files if this option is selected.

If both CAM and DXF options are ticked, a further option is open to select a preference of one of these over the other.

AutoCut Settings

Click this button to open the AutoCut Settings form.