ATO Model Item

ATO Model Item 

ATO Model item means that there will be some option items. We can select any of those option items & create a new item. Consider a situation where we want to assemble a CPU. We will be having a wide range of choices for motherboard, RAM, processor, hard disk & cabinets. We can pick different brands and models & come up with a new item all together.

An ATO Item is something like a ceiling fan kit which we buy from market. Always it will have same configuration. Our job is to just configure it

As we have not installed Manufacturing modules for our Operating unit. So we will do all setups in Vision Instance

Add ‘Order Management Super User, Vision Operations (USA)’ responsibility to our user

In our case, we’ll configure a printer which can be configured differently using different option items. In our case order is placed for V1 organization but manufacturing will be done in M1 organization

Define an item in Item Master

 

Navigate to tools > Copy from & give details as

Click on Apply

 

& assign this item to M1 organization as well

Change Organization to M1

Navigate to Bills of Material > Routings > Routings

Routing means the departments which will be involved in manufacturing this item

Give item name

& navigate to Tools > Copy routing from & give details as shown below

Click on Copy. You’ll get a message saying

Press OK

We can see that 3 departments are copied. 1 is for assembly of printer other is for testing of laser printer & third is for testing of Ink jet printer. Depending upon the type of printer we’ll chose, it will be routed to either 2^nd or 3^rd department

Navigate to Tools > Bills of Materials & give item name

Navigate to Tools > Copy bill from & give details as

Click on Copy

Press OK

We can see that entire configuration is copied

At line 4 we have an Printer Option Class. Option class means a group of optional items. We’ll select any one of these items in option class. In our case it is Inkjet or Laser printer

Navigate to Tools > Create Common Bill & give details as shown below

Press OK

It will submit a concurrent program ‘Create Common Bills’. Once that completes normally we can proceed with order booking

Next is to book an order & give details as shown below

Click on Configurator Tab

As there is some inbuilt problem in this page so if required, click on Diagnostics & then click on Back

Select the options as shown below

Note that for Printer option class we have 4 options but we can select only one

Click on Finish

Book the order

Right Click on the line & click on Progress Order. With this a new line will be added to the configuration.

It is known as Star item. It is created so that in future if someone is willing to book an order with same configuration then instead of selecting all options, He can directly select this Star item. Also only for this item, this item, the status will change to ‘Supply Eligible’. Now this item will only be sent for production

Right click again on star item & click on Progress Order

Press OK. This will create a Move order in WIP

You’ll get a message saying

It will submit ‘Assemble To Order Mass Load Report’ concurrent program. Open the output file

& note the job number

Now the status of line is ‘Production Open’

Navigate to WIP > Discrete > Discrete Jobs à Search for the job number

In order to start the production of the item, we need to release the job. Change the status of Job to Released

It will populate the subinventory details. Save the record

Navigate to WIP >  Move Transactions > Move Transactions à Search By Job number

Click on Complete & give details as shown below

Save the record. It means that the item has been manufactured & sent to inventory.

Go to Sales order form & see the line status

It is ‘Awaiting Shipping’

Go to shipping transaction form & do ‘Pick Release’

‘Ship Confirm’ the order

Run ‘Workflow Background Process’. Line status will be closed