Inventory Refurbishing - Equipment
The refurbish activity is used when you have an item in inventory that you want to repair/refurbish and sell again. The refurbish activity allows you to keep track of the parts, labor, and overhead involved in the refurbishment. The refurbishment activity decrements the material used during the refurbishment from your inventory and transfers the associated costs to the inventory item being refurbished.
The refurbishment activity also transfers the technician’s burden rate times the number of hours to the item being refurbished, as well as any overhead associated with the refurbishment. The inventory item receiving the increased cost holds the inventory value until you sell the item and then posts to cost of goods sold.
While you can use the refurbishment activity for updating and for older equipment, you can also use this activity to add supplies to new machines. Prior to refurbishing you can identify typcical items used during refurbishment on the item’s Assembly tab. On the Assembly tab you can designate in the Kit type field either PK-Parts Kit or AK-Assembled Kit; both types can be used on the base item to pull in to the refurbishment the materials you expect to use. You can also add additional materials or remove material as needed.
Getting to the TransactionGetting to the Transaction
From the Inventory menu, select Production > Refurbish Inventory to open the Refurbish Inventory window.
Basic InformationBasic Information
Complete the following fields as appropriate:
Item: Item to refurbish.
Description: Description of the refurbish activity.
Quantity: Number of the items to refurbish.
Serial number: Serial number of the item being refurbished, if any.
Number: Automatically assigns the next available number.
Date: Date the refurbishment is performed.
Job: Job associated with the refurbishment, if any.
Overhead: Amount of overhead to be charged for each item refurbished, if any.
Materials TabMaterials Tab
Record the materials to be used for this refurbishment by doing ONE of the following:
To
automatically list the items for this refurbishment, click [Auto Assemble]. The list of items
from the bill of materials list is generated.
Note: If you use the auto assemble
function, you can add items and remove items as necessary.
Note: To see the bill of materials
for this refurbishment, go to Inventory/Items,
edit the item, and click the Assembly
tab. The materials are listed in the Bill
of Materials region. The Kit
type can be either PK – Parts
Kit or AK – Assembly Kit.
To manually list the items for this refurbishment, do the following:
In the Item field, use the lookup icon to select the item needed for the refurbishment.
In the Quantity field, enter the quantity of this item needed to refurbish the equipment.
Click [QuickAdd] to add the item to the materials list.
Repeat Steps a through c for each item to be added to the materials list.
Labor TabLabor Tab
Click the Labor tab to bring it forward.
In the Employee field, use the lookup icon to select the employee who worked on the refurbishment.
In the Hours field, enter the number of hours this employee spent on the refurbishment.
Click
[QuickAdd] to add the labor
information about this employee to the list.
Note: The employee burden rate
is multiplied by the number of hours spent on the refurbishment and
adds the total to the cost of the item.
Repeat Steps 2 through 4 for each employee who worked on the refurbishment.
Sub-Assemblies TabSub-Assemblies Tab
Click
the Sub-assemblies tab to
bring it forward.
Note: A sub-assembly is an assembly
contained within a refurbishment.
Click [New] to open the New Sub-assembly window.
Record the appropriate information for the sub-assembly using the instructions in the Inventory Assembly topic.
Click [OK] to save the sub-assembly information and return to the Refurbish Inventory window.
Bin Distribution TabBin Distribution Tab
The Bin Distribution tab is displayed so you can determine with which warehouse you want the refurbishment cost associated. When refurbishing serialized items, e-automate knows the cost warehouse. With non-serialized items, e-automate expects you to identify the warehouse to which the cost should be associated.
Click
the Bin Distribution tab to
bring it forward.
Note: The Bin
Distribution tab specifies with which warehouse and bin e-automate
will associate the cost of the non-serialized refurbishment.
Verify the bin distributions are correct.
Completing the TransactionCompleting the Transaction
Click [OK] to save the refurbishment information.
Non-supported ReleaseNon-supported Release
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