Material Control and Pricing

A Getting Started Guide:

To begin using the Material Control and Pricing section of AcornPipe software:
1/ At the bottom of the Material Control screen , select ‘List All’. The selected
drawings will be bold text to let you know these are the draings on your currentl
list.
2/ Select the ‘Tools’ menu, and choose ‘Inventory Update Only’. This writes the
drawn quantities to the files to make them available to price and to create reports.

Reports and Summaries: The reports are created based on the list of
drawings above. The controls at the bottom of this screen will allow you to
‘Empty the list’. The user can select individual drawings, by double click-
ing each drawing control number, then use the function, ‘Add to List’. In
the same way, drawings can be removed from the list.
The function controls allow the user to ‘Hide the unlisted Drawings’,
The ‘Repeat’ button is used to edit the columns to the right of the Drawn
Date in this status form.
The drawing list in the status panel can be sorted by Spool, by Reference
Drawing, by Spec, by Priority or any of the other options in the columns, by
double-clicking on the header for that column.
The mouse can be dragged to highlight drawings, then click on ‘Add to List’
will add those drawings to the list used to generate summaries and reports.
These drawing control numbers added to the list, will be highlighted in bold
text, and these drawings will be the source of the information in the Material
Summaries reports, Cuts Lists, and Labour reports, etc. generated.

Adding the Material and Fittings received, to your

Inventory, and adding Pricing to Material and Fittings

Begin, by selecting ‘Tools’ menu, then ‘Job Inventory/Pricing’, then

choose ‘Items’.
Left: Suppose that we
want to add ‘Received
Items’. This can be used
to add items already in
stock in your shop, and
items which have been
ordered and received.
Click into the cell for
the Received, and press
the F3 key.

Stock already in your shop or warehouse, can be added into the inventory control as ‘received’.
This will be added to the ‘In Stock’ column, along with new purchases.
Below: Pressing the F3 key will display an entry screen. Add the quantity and if you want t make
sure heat numbers, and MTR numbers are checked by the program, against the inventory, enter
those here as well.
To add another part or piece of pipe with a different heat number, select ‘Add Line’.
In this next line the heat number, MTR number, etc., can be different than the first piece, but will
still be part of the overall total for this item.
Above: 3 lines of 1/2 “ XXS Pipe added.
Below: After clicking on the ‘Done’ button, the three lines of pipe entered, is totalled on
the screen.
Pick ‘Done’ again, to exit this section, on re-entering the Inventory pricing module, the
inventory is updated. Notice that the three lines of pipe are totalled in the “In Stock’
column.
Re-enter by once again select-
ing ‘Tools’ menu, then ‘Job
Inventory/Pricing’, then
choose ‘Items’.

Below:
After the inventory is updated, you will see the ‘received items added to the In Stock
column.
Additional purchases entered into ’Received’ are added to the amount in the ‘In Stock’
column.
Adding the price to the item: Click into the ‘Unit Price’ cell. Type in the price for this item.

The priced items will not show up on the reports without the ‘Factor’. The Facrtor of
1, will multiply the price by 1.
You can inflate prices by using 1.05 or 1.25 or some such figure. The price can be dis-
counted as well, by entering 0.70 or 0.25, etc. to deflate the original price.
Partial Material Summary below. I did not add in any other prices, but you can see the results
on this report.

16/09/2008 1:56:08 PM Material Summary for Example

Example Job

27 Drawings

000001 000002 000003 000004 000005 000006 000007 000008 000009 000010 000011 000012
000013 000014 000015 00011A 00011B 00011C 00011D 00011E 00011F 00011G 00011H 00011I
000200 45BOXA OFFSET

Total Weight = 15521 lb Diameter-inch = 1065.5 Total net price = 37.35

Description Quantity Price Total Factor Net

--------Pipe-----------------

1/2" XXS(.294) Pipe 10.67 ft 3.50 37.35 1.00 37.35

3/4" XS(.154) Pipe 1.07 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00
3/4" Sch 160(.219) Pipe 1.87 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00
1" Sch 10S(.109) Pipe 1.29 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00
1" XXS(.358) Pipe 2.64 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00
2" Std(.154) Pipe 3.18 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00
2 1/2" Sch 10S(.120) Pipe 7.32 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00
3" Std(.216) Pipe 6.40 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00
3" XS(.300) Pipe 2.29 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00
4" Sch 10S(.120) Pipe 74.77 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00
4" Std(.237) Pipe 63.91 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00
4" XS(.338) Pipe 9.20 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00
6" Sch 10S(.134) Pipe 14.87 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00
6" Std(.280) Pipe 115.04 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00
6" Std(.280) Pipe 3.38 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00
6" XS(.432) Pipe 46.37 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00
8" Std(.322) Pipe 65.74 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00
8" Std(.322) Pipe 40.63 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00
8" XS(.500) Pipe 56.81 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00
10" Std(.365) Pipe 13.29 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00
12" Sch 40(.406) Pipe 32.81 ft 0.00 .00 .00 .00

--------Flanges--------------

6" 150# RF Blind Flange 3 0.00 .00 .00 .00

4" 400# RF SW Flange XS 1 0.00 .00 .00 .00
6" 300# RF ANSI Slip-On 1 0.00 .00 .00 .00
6" 150# RF Slip-On Flange 1 0.00 .00 .00 .00
6" 300# Slip-On Flange 1 0.00 .00 .00 .00
3" 150# RF Weld Neck Std 1 0.00 .00 .00 .00
4" 150# RF Weld Neck Sch 10S 1 0.00 .00 .00 .00
4" 150# RF Weld Neck Std 2 0.00 .00 .00 .00
4" 150# RF Weld Neck Std 4 0.00 .00 .00 .00
6" 150# RF Weld Neck Std 14 0.00 .00 .00 .00
6" 150# RF Weld Neck Std 2 0.00 .00 .00 .00
6" 150# RF Weld Neck XS 4 0.00 .00 .00 .00
8" 150# RF Weld Neck Std 2 0.00 .00 .00 .00
8" 150# RF Weld Neck Std 1 0.00 .00 .00 .00
8" 300# FF Weld Neck Std 2 0.00 .00 .00 .00
8" 150# RF Weld Neck XS 1 0.00 .00 .00 .00
Adding Items ‘not yet drawn’ to the list for pricing and inventory
You do need to have completed and
saved a couple of drawings at least to
be able to use this feature of adding
items which have not been drawn.
Start by entering this section. To do
that select ‘Tools’ then pick ‘Job In-
ventory/Pricing’. Next select ‘Items’.

To add an item to the list for inventory and pricing, the options allow you to select
the spec, header size and uses the familiar onscreen menu used in the drawing
process.
Items added can be Inline, On Pipe, On Elbows, Other, and Offspec.
Choosing ‘In Line’ will allow the user to select pipe and fittings.
Selecting ‘On Pipe’, or ‘On Elbow’ will display supports and ‘olets, as well as
attachments to these items.
Most companies will want to have most of the drawings completed, before you
use this function to add items.
In this scenario, I am adding bolt sets to the inventory. I could have added them to
a drawing, but for this example, say I only want to add them here.

Select the spec name and size, then ‘In Line’.

From the onscreen menu select ‘In Line Acc’ (Accessories)
Next, choose ‘Bolt Set’.
The screen below will be displayed. Fill in the description and set the number of
bolts per set.
AcornPipe assumes that these are ‘on spec’, and would be used for the 150# RF
Flanges from the spec info.
You could use “Offspec” to make alternate selections.
Click into the received column and press the F3 key in order to add the number of
bolt sets received.
Now add the number of bolts or the number of bolt sets you are adding to the in-
ventory.
Add other items as you require.

Below:
Newly added items, along with the quantities added to ‘received’, and
to the ‘in stock’ items. These are now ready for pricing.
 Material Control and Pricing Labour
Before you start……...
Make sure you have the labour items turned on.

Coming soon - Pricing Labour

Extra Labour and End Preps