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Order entry for machine shops
A machined-part PO is dense: part number, revision, drawing number and its revision, certification clauses, a quality code per line. Each customer writes your part number their own way, and a revision bump can arrive as a PPAP warrant rather than a new PO. STRYKE reads all of it and matches it to your part master before an Order is entered.
What arrives
What lands on a machine shop's order desk.
- POs with part, revision, drawing and rev, certs and quality clauses on every line
- Blanket POs with releases as call-offs, and a spreadsheet of release quantities and dates
- RFQs with a STEP file, a PDF drawing and 25/100/500 quantity breaks
- Vendor Invoices from bar stock suppliers with cutting charges and heat numbers, and from outside processors for heat treat, anodize and plating
- Material test reports and certificates of conformance that must tie to the Packing list
What STRYKE does
The checks that keep a wrong revision off the machine.
- Each line matched to your part master through the customer's cross-reference, revision compared to the current one on file
- A revision on the PO that is newer than the one you quoted is held, not entered
- Unit of measure, quantity breaks and the price from the matching quote checked line by line
- Outside-processing invoices matched to the PO, the shipper and the certificate
- Heat numbers on the invoice tied to the Packing list and the mill cert
Where it lands
The Order and the Job, with the paperwork behind them.
- An Order and the Job in JobBOSS², E2, Epicor, ProShop, Global Shop or your ERP, with revision and due date per line
- Outside-processing Vendor Invoices against the Job's vendor operation, and the Bill in QuickBooks
- The PO, the drawing reference and the certificate attached to the Order for the AS9100 or ISO auditor
- Nothing installed on the ERP server
What goes back out
From the Order, when the ERP says so.
- Acknowledgment to the buyer with the promise date, per line
- Packing list, certificate of conformance and Invoice from the shipment
- An 856 and an 810 where the customer runs EDI
Questions shops ask
How does it handle revisions?
The revision on the PO line is compared to the revision on file for that part and to the one you quoted. A match goes in. A newer revision, or a drawing rev that does not match the part rev, is held with both shown side by side, because cutting to the wrong print is the expensive mistake.
Can it read a blanket PO and its releases?
Yes. The blanket's total quantity and price are entered once; each release, whether an email, a spreadsheet or an EDI 862, becomes a release against it, with the cum checked against what your ERP has shipped.
Does it read the RFQ too?
It reads the RFQ into a Quote in your ERP with the part, drawing, quantity breaks and due date, so the estimator starts from the record instead of the email. The pricing is still the estimator's.
