The system allows you to purchase and sell plastic laminate products. Laminate products are priced by the square foot, but purchased and sold by sheets in various sizes. Using the Laminate Cut Maintenance features, you can define laminate products and legal cuts that your warehouse personnel can make from a sheet of laminate. As you sell cuts of laminate from your warehouse, the system modifies the size of the sheets available for sale in real time.
Use Laminate Cut Maintenance to define the cuts that you allow from a sheet of laminate. Defining allowable cuts ensures that all remnants created from cuts produce sellable stock, reducing the number of scraps of laminate that you cannot sell. Create laminate products using Product Maintenance and sell them using sales order entry. If you enter a piece of laminate on an order that is not available in stock, but a larger piece is in stock that you could use to cut the piece on the order, the system uses the larger piece and adjusts the inventory to reflect the remaining pieces.
For example, a customer requests Product A, which is a sheet of laminate 36 inches wide by 36 inches long. Product A is out of stock, but Product B is the same type of laminate in a sheet that is 36 inches wide by 72 inches long. The system allows the sales person to select the larger sheet. The system then subtracts the 36 by 72 sheet from inventory, adds two 36 by 36 sheets to inventory, and commits one 36 by 36 sheet to the customer order, leaving one 36 by 36 piece of laminate in inventory, available for sale.
See Also:
Defining Cut Dimensions for Laminate Products