Specifies which item to assemble, how many units to assemble, and which component items or resources go into the assembly item.
Like production orders, assembly orders are internal orders that are not intended for vendors or customers and are used to manage creating sellable end items that are set up as assembly items.
An assembly item is a sellable item that contains an assembly BOM. In addition, you can set up an assembly item to be assembled to order or assembled to stock. This depends on the amount of customization that is required to fulfill a customer’s order for the item. For more information about how to set up assembly items, see Assemble to Order or Assemble to Stock.
Assembly orders differ from other order types because they involve both output, or positive adjustment, and consumption, or negative adjustment, when posting. With regard to this, the assembly order header behaves similarly to a sales order line, and the assembly order lines behave similarly to consumption journal lines.