Combine Material#

Material.Combine

Overview#

This operation is used to combine one Material (Source) with another (Target), without changing the quantity of the Target Material. It is useful to consume the Source Material and keeping the genealogy and traceability of the Target Material.

Setup#

No special setup is required other than to meet the preconditions of the transaction.

Preconditions#

• Source and Target Material are Active.
• Source and Target Material are not On Hold and are not In Transit.
• Source Material and Target Material must be in the same Facility.
• Source Materials must not have expired or an Expiration Date has not been defined.
• Combined PrimaryQuantity >= 0 and Combined SecondaryQuantity >= 0 (if Step of Target Material contains a Secondary Unit). Note that, the combine quantity can only be decimal if the property IsDecimalQuantityAllowed is set to True in the Step and the Product Discrete property is False.
• Combined PrimaryQuantity <= Source Material Primary Quantity; Combined Secondary Quantity <= Source Material SecondaryQuantity.
• Topmost of Source and Target Materials must not have a CurrentBOMVersion.
• Topmost of Source and Target Materials must have different Topmost Materials.
• The Topmost Source and Topmost Target Materials must have the TransferMaterial property set to Null.
• The Source Material Products must not be blocked or if blocked, the Source Materials property OverrideProductBlock must be True.
• The Source Materials must not have any open defects (Open Defect Count is zero).

Sequence of Steps#

Step 1#

1. Verify the Material information.
2. Select the Materials to combine by selecting and specify, for each Material, the primary and secondary quantities (if defined) to combine. It is also possible to remove the Materials by selecting .
3. Optionally, enter a comment.
4. Select Combine to complete the operation.