Rods and trays

Why

A special is priced on its blank, so the price is only right if the rod behind it exists.

How

Open Stock, add trays with New tray or Import and feeds, then keep the pieces true as rod is added and taken.

Trays and supplier lines

Each tray shows its total length, its pieces, what open quotes hold and what orders have reserved. Taken, added, reserved beside the list is the record of what changed.

How a rod is chosen

1. A rod must be the grade the tool asks for, match the coolant form and hole count, be large enough for the largest ground diameter and be at least as long as one blank.
2. A helical coolant rod must match the tool's helix. Any coolant rod may only be a little over size, since its holes sit on a fixed pitch.
3. Your own trays come before a supplier line, the nearest size comes first within that, then the lowest cost.
4. A much larger tray is not ground down while a nearer size can be bought.
5. A rod with no stated cost is left out, never priced at nothing. If no rod can be priced, the design says so with the reason.

Quotes hold, orders reserve

• A quote line with a customer holds its blanks, so no other quote is priced against them. The hold ends when the quote is decided, replaced or past its valid until date.
• Turning a quote into an order cuts the blanks from the tray, shortest piece that fits first, puts each offcut back as a piece and writes a reservation to the ledger.
• Blanks that must be bought go on one purchase order per supplier, for you to place.

Add, take and receive

1. 1
   Step 1.

   New tray asks for the grade, diameter, coolant, bar length, bar cost and the first pieces. Import and feeds reads the trays as rows of grade, diameter_mm, coolant, holes, helix_deg, piece_length_mm, count, bar_length_mm and bar_cost.

2. 2
   Step 2.

   Open a tray to add pieces put back or to take pieces that are not on an order. Each asks for Length, mm, How many and a Note.

3. 3
   Step 3.

   Order on a row raises a purchase order for whole bars through the supplier line for the same rod. Nothing goes to the supplier from there.

4. 4
   Step 4.

   When the bars arrive, choose Received beside the order under Due in. The bars go into the tray with the same code. Where there is none a new tray is made. Blanks bought for a customer order are reserved at once.

Supplier lines arrive by import too, one supplier at a time. Suppliers and their lists belong to Source.