Requirements

The Requirement tab shows the list of required items – the list that is the basis for the reports, as shown above. If you click on the Requirement Report menu option, you find three basic reports (plus any custom reports that you add):

•      Requirements

•      Requirements w-break

•      Assembly Listing

The Requirements report is a listing of each assembly and the required components for the specific quantity of that assembly. NOTE that you have to use this with caution – the shortage column can be misleading in this report. This figure, in this report, does not take into account the requirements of all assemblies, just of the one it is listed with. The best place to see a total requirement for a part is the Aggregate report.

This particular report is very useful as a pull list – you can give this to your manufacturing shop so that they know who many parts to pull for each assembly to manufacture.

The Requirements w-break report is similar to the Requirements report. There are two differences - there is a page break between each assembly, and we have added an original column, which contains the quantity of the item needed to make a single assembly.

The Assembly Listing is simply a listing of the required assemblies that are the basis of the report.