Manufacturing

We have a group of products offered with a single variant (color) where the color is simple to change in production. Many of the other components have long lead times and would benefit from the use of Dependent Forecasts in MRP/Inventory Planning I’m trying to figure out how to load a dependent forecast for a single item (ITEM-A) that has an identical BOM to a group of products (ITEM-B to ITEM-G) so that sales orders for any of the group of items is consumed against the forecast For example, imagine I enter a Forecast for a period of 10-units, and we take sales orders for the same amount in that period, but the color variants are different. How can we configure this to consume the forecast and net out to zero?Inventory ID Forecast Sales Order ITEM-A 10 2 ITEM-B   4 ITEM-C   3 ITEM-D   1  As configured, it appears Inventory Planning will expect a total demand of the 10 forecasted -2 on SO of ITEM-A (8 Total) + an additional 8 units from the other variants on sal

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Hello all,I am curious to understand the purpose of Keys under Production Configurator. Maybe with an example?Thanks in advance.

Is it possible to override the default WIP account in a production order when using a labor transaction? I need to hit a COGS for shop labor GL and not a manufactured products/material GL account. Reason being, the GL account for labor is in the account group for a labor line in the project cost budget. The default WIP is linked to the the materials line item in the cost budget. So I am having to post an extra project transaction that reclasses from materials line to labor. I would like to avoid this if possible. If there is a better way to get hours/dollars into production orders and accomplish the same, I’m open to that as well. I feel like it shouldn’t be this hard and I’m fighting the system. 

Hi everyone,We’re seeing unexpected behavior in Acumatica 2025 R1 and would like to know if anyone else has experienced this.Our project is configured as:Inventory Tracking: Track by Location Allow Issue from Free Stock: Unchecked All project inventory is stored in a dedicated location (KIT).   When we click Release Materials, the Material Wizard lists the materials. However, after selecting Select All, the Materials screen lists inventory from all warehouse locations, and the Inventory Source includes both Project Stock and Free Stock.Our expectation is that, since Allow Issue from Free Stock is unchecked, Acumatica should only issue Project Stock from the assigned KIT location and should not consider Free Stock at all.This is not the behavior previously. It only picked materials from the assigned project location (if it’s Track by Location) and did not consider Free Stock when the Allow Issue from Free Stock option was unchecked.If anyone has encountered this issue or found a workaro

I have a question regarding the purpose of the WIP Account in the Posting Class and Stock item.According to the documentation, the WIP Account and WIP Variance Account fields are enabled only when the MRP or DRP feature is licensed and enabled. However, MRP and DRP themselves do not perform any accounting postings directly, so I'm trying to understand the reasoning behind this dependency.From my testing, I observed that when WIP and WIP Variance Accounts are defined on the Stock Item, those accounts take precedence over the accounts configured in the Production Order Type. This behavior appears to be intentional.Does anyone know why their availability is tied specifically to the MRP or DRP license, even though those features don't generate GL postings themselves?

Hello, We are currently in the process of upgrade from 23R2 to 25R2. In the process, of upgrade we encountered an issue with scrapping on production orders. A case/Bug has been opened with Acumatica. However, we do not have an established timeline for resolution at this time.  Problem:When performing a scrap on a production operation the Production Order Detail will record the scrap on the operation in which it was performed. However, the scrapped qty will not update in the first operations QTY remaining and QTY to Produce Columns. All upstream operations, from before the scrap action will remain in a “Completed” status. In our production environment, if a scrap occurs, we must start over from Operation ID 0010.This means, we have completely lost visibility to a production order in the upstream work centers that is starting over in the production process due to scrap. This also means, we lose our Material transactions and labor cost associated to the rework of the product in the upstre

We are an Engineer-to-Order (ETO) company where Available-to-Promise (ATP) dates are critical to our customers. These dates depend on multiple factors, including supplier lead times, manufacturing cycle times, shipping, and also engineering/design time.We are exploring ways to better incorporate engineering capacity into our scheduling and ATP calculations.Has anyone modeled Engineering as a work center within Acumatica to account for design capacity and better reflect its impact on delivery dates?If so, how was it configured, and did it effectively improve ATP accuracy? Are there alternative approaches within Acumatica to include engineering lead time and capacity constraints in the planning process?Thank you Daniel Lago

One of our clients recently went live on Acumatica and are struggling with easily logging time against multiple production orders at once. They are on 22.212.0046. The Multiple Clock Entry screen gets them close to what they need, but isn’t efficient for their shop floor team at all. They need to be able to select all production orders that are associated with a single sales order, clock into a work center, and then clock out of that work center. Ideally this could be done on the mobile app and via scanning, but that’s not supported. I tried exposing the Multiple Clock Entry screen on mobile but could not get it to be selectable when trying to add to a mobile workspace. (is there a step I’m missing here, or is this screen not supported on mobile?) With the browser interface, they can use column filters to select only the sales order and only the work centers they need, but they would still have to individually select all the lines to clock into -- there should be a “select all” option

Hi Team, through testing, we've confirmed:Delegation only works if the delegate is already listed as an authorized approver (in the Approval Map or Workgroup) for that step. Delegating to someone outside the map/workgroup has no effect - they can't see or act on the item, even though the delegation is saved. If a person is already a listed approver/workgroup member, they can approve on a colleague's behalf regardless of whether delegation was set up at all - simply because they're already authorized. This raises the question: what scenario is Delegation actually solving, if a Workgroup member doesn't need to be delegated to act, and a non-Workgroup member can't act even if delegated?Is Delegation intended for a narrower use case - for example, routing to a specific single person outside the group (rather than "any workgroup member"), or perhaps intended for approval maps that use a single named Employee approver (not Workgroup-based) so there's normally no built-in backup? Any clarific

Does anybody have an import scenario for the product configurator?

Hi, While releasing “Materials” transaction for Non-stock items , no inventory transactions (issue transactions) get recorded however for “Purchase Receipt” there is inventory transaction (receipt) get created. Is it expected behavior or I am missing something ? I have observed that scenario in 25R1. Please help me 

We have an issue where our team processed a production Move transaction for the incorrect qty. and work order closed. Finished goods is now overstated and raw/pack understated. What is the best way to return and deconstruct some of that product to reduce our FG and increase the Raw/Packs?

Does anyone know of a way to generate production tickets from MRP for the total quantities that are in demand for an item.  Currently it is showing the same item multiple times and if you generate tickets it will create one by one instead of a sum of the quantity.  If we manually sum the qty and create a work order for that quantity, mrp still shows the demand one by one until it’s complete.  Quite cumbersome to keep on track.  Any suggestions?

We are implementing MRP / Inventory Planning / Production Orders / Bill of Materials in 25R2.  I want to exclude certain sales order types from creating demand.  I am not seeing anything in inventory planning preferences or in the order types to exclude from demand which was part of the original ask.  I do see on certain order types there is the include returns in inventory planning supply. Our use case is the company runs in multiple ways, we have production / manufacturing where we are using Inventory Planning we have those Sales Orders set up as a type where we allow production to be triggered, but we have plenty of other order types that we use in the Construction side of the business to move warehouse materials to site and we do NOT want those orders being included in our demand requirements.  Anyone else run into a similar issue?  How did you resolve?  My inventory ID can be used in BOM’s or Projects.  Warehouse locations are able to mark for IP use, but the Sales Order does not

We are having an issue attempting to partially ship an SO line linked to a partially completed production order.  Work order/SO quantity is 100, we have 50 complete.  Selecting the SO line shows 50 on hand/ available / available for shipping, but none allocated.  Line details shows the below, which looks strange from what I recall in the past.  This hasn’t been an issue in the past but we recently upgraded to 25.201.0213.2 and this isn’t something we do often so wondering if it is a bug or some obscure setting that now needs to be changed.  Any guidance would be appreciated.  Thanks,Dan

Hello,We are getting an error when trying to approve clock entries, :The clock entry cannot be approved because a labor transaction with the NNN number has already been created for this clock entry.These clock entries are time applied to production orders.I thought that clock entries didn’t go into a batch until they were approved. Is that correct?How can I get past this error?

25R2 Manufacturers: If you have any non-base UOM Materials called out in In Process Production Orders, take a look at Inventory Allocation Details.  You may find that the system is not recognizing that demand, potentially causing Inventory Planning errors.Any manufacturers out there experiencing this?Development acknowledged it as a bug, but we’re the lone reporters at this point: AC-377609.

We have a client that does a lot of custom one off work, and they often reuse the same inventory ID, so they do not have to create 100000 inventory id that they will never use. They are using estimates, so everything gets built out to meet the needs of their customer, but when they go to add it in to the project, it will not allow for duplicates on the project task. They don’t really want to create multiple project tasks, as it duplicates a lot of their work flows. Ideally we would be able to utilize configurations, but configurations and estimates don’t play nicely, especially since there are a lot of outside processes and unknown charges that they need to then flow down.The workaround that they have come up with is to have duplicate inventory ID (remove and replace1, remove and replace 2, etc) so that they can add everything to the project task and group everything together.Not ideal, but better than creating a bazillion part numbers. 

Does anyone know why as an Admin I cannot see al the user activates within the company? I am trying to then assign workgroups for department leads to review team activity but step1 - I cannot see them myself. Thanks   

When performing a mass multi‑level cost roll, Acumatica doesn't recalculate bill levels for manufactured items from other branches or update their costs in the receiving branch’s assembly. It simply uses the existing standard cost.As a workaround, the mass cost roll process must be run twice. The first run does not pull the most recent standard cost from the sending branch, resulting in an inaccurate assembly cost in the receiving branch. The second run then captures the correct sending‑branch cost and updates the assembly cost appropriately.Can the cost roll process be corrected instead of repeating the mass cost roll process?

Hello all,How can I generate MRP consolidated out of all demands under a single row?