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Operations Menu - Disassemble

Use this function when you need to reverse the effects of a Production record. This may be because you disassembled an assembled Item and returned its components to stock, because you marked a Production record as Finished incorrectly, or because a Finished Production record contained an error.

Find and open the Production record that is to be reversed, and select 'Disassemble' from the Operations menu. The function will create and open a new Production record that is the reverse of the original (i.e. the Input Items in the original Production will be Output Items in the new record, and the original Output Item will now be an Input Item).

The new Production record will be opened in a window entitled 'Production: Inspect'. This means that it has already been saved, and is being opened for checking.

When you mark the record as Finished and save it, the Input Costs of each Item will be updated, a Nominal Ledger Transaction will be generated, reversing the one created by the original Production record, and the stock levels of the assembled Items and the components will be updated. The assembled Item will be removed from stock, and the components will be returned to stock.

Each component will be returned to stock with the cost that was deducted from stock when you used it in the assembly process i.e. the cost of each component will be copied from the Production that you are disassembling.

The assembled Item will be removed from stock with a cost that will be calculated using the Cost Model specified in the relevant Item or Item Group record. If that Cost Model is Default, the Primary Cost Model specified in the Cost Accounting setting will be used. Disassembly will therefore be treated as a normal removal from stock.

There may be a difference in the value of the assembled Item in the original Production and in the disassembling Production. There can be two reasons for this. First, the original Production may include a Work Cost. If so, the value of this Work Cost will be debited to the Stock Gain Account from the disassembling Production. Second, the calculated value of the assembled Item may have changed between assembly and disassembly. For example, if you are using the Weighted Average Cost Model, the Weighted Average value of the assembled Item may change if you have assembled or otherwise received into stock other examples of the assembled Item in the intervening time. If you are using the FIFO Cost Model, the assembled Item may not be first in the queue for removal from stock, and may have a different value to the first example in the queue. If it is the case that the calculated value of the assembled Item has changed between assembly and disassembly, the difference will be debited (if the value has increased) or credited (if it has decreased) to the Disassemble Variance Account. The calculated value of the assembled Item at the time of disassembly will be shown in the I-Cost field on flip A of the 'Items' card in the disassembly Production, while the value at the time of assembly will be shown in the Dis. Row FIFO field on flip E. The Stock Gain and Disassemble Variance Accounts will be taken from the Account Usage Stock setting.

The two Production records will be connected to each other through the Attachments facility. This allows you to open the original Production quickly and easily from the disassembly record, or to open the disassembly from the original Production.

You will not be able to disassemble a Production if any of the components are Plain Items. For this reason, you should not use Plain Items as components in Recipes or Productions. If you need the Production to contain costs such as electricity, labour, etc. as components, these costs should be Service Items, not Plain Items.

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