Product cutting allows you to manage products in your warehouse that require separation or cutting prior to delivering to customers, such as wire or pipe. For example, you purchase ten-gauge wire in 500 foot spools, but your customer orders four sets of 150 foot lengths. The system provides a way to track the product, the cutting, and the delivery of the wire in addition to managing the remaining wire. You enter a cut product on an order, define single or parallel cut, add additional cut changes or reel options, and set the system to either print out the cutting documents, send to RF, or send the cut product queue to manage the product cutting.
You can define products as cuttable at the product or price line level. You can also set certain branches to prompt for cutting or disable cutting in a branch. In Order Entry, you can associate cut changes and reel options if they pertain to the cut.
Note:If you use the Product Cutting program for cutting wire, Eclipse requires setting up the product as lot controlled in each branch.
The system supports two different cut groups:
Single - A single cut group is the default cut group that tells the system these are individual cuts, for example, a customer orders 100 feet of wire and needs it cut in 10 foot lengths. Each cut can be scheduled and shipped separately.
Parallel - A parallel cut group is used just for wire cutting. It is when you have multiple cuts of wire that will be on the same spool. The system must treat the items as one, meaning all must ship together on the same generation. For example, a customer orders 200 feet of cable wiring and needs it cut in 20 foot lengths. Cable wiring is a bundled wire, meaning each cut must contain a red, yellow, and black wire and the cuts must be exactly the same length. Each of these red, yellow, and black wires must be cut together to ensure the lengths are consistent and kept together as a bundle for shipment.
Solar cut product has two standard flows based on ship via:
Auto Processing - This was designed to handle getting the orders with cut product into the cutters hands faster by processing the order and having the cut tickets and cut labels print for either RF or Non-RF warehouses. The intent was for Will Call and Pick Up Now orders. This is a branch specific setting using the Ship Via on the sales order generation.
Non-Auto Processing - All Non-Auto Process orders populate the cut product queue for the warehouse to manage the cuts. Most likely, these are orders for truck delivery routes to be delivered the following day. This is for either RF or Non-RF warehouses.