Manufacturing

Anyone in community using BOM’s with Phantom Items?How does it work for you? What settings work best in your manufacturing facility?We have multiple items with BOM’s with component parts and subassemblies and we want these component parts and subassemblies to have their own BOM. However, we don’t want to have to MOVE all the component part and subassembly Work Orders in order to process the Parent Item Work Order.If Phantom Items will work, what is the best way to set these items up? 

The purpose of the Material Requirements Planning Whitepaper is to increase your working knowledge of the MRP process within Acumatica. It is strongly recommended to first complete the M100, M200 Manufacturing Education course and be familiar with Acumatica Manufacturing processes and general MRP Configuration.Upon the completion of the whitepaper the readers should understand:Inputs to MRP and what parameters to consider if results are not as expected. How a parameter impacts planning results and where it is used in the MRP regeneration process. How MRP performs calculations The results presented by MRP by working an example backwards. Why exceptions are generated.The following topics are not addressed in detail in the Whitepaper as they are well covered in the M100 and M200 Acumatica Education coursesWhat is MRP How to configure basic MRP PreferencesThe following topics are not included in this whitepaper, but may be addressed in a future:Forecast generation see On-line help LINK Dep

Hi Everyone, I’d like to pass a list of values instead of calling out the items 1 by 1. There are many options in the conditions drop down. But the documentation does not specify how they should be used, or provide limitations.  

From a production order you can create a PO.  If I purchase material this way it seems that a linkage should have been created from the PO to the production order.  Where can I see that linkage?I don’t see where I can see linked POs on the production order.I don’t see where I can see the linked production order on the PO.Thanks!

2022R1: The numbering sequence for production orders is set to manual numbering. A sales order is created for the item to be manufactured.  A production order is manually created for the the item (since you can’t create a production order from the sales order, or use the “Create Production Orders” process when the numbering sequence is set to Manual).  The production order status is PLANNED, the sales order status is OPEN.When I go to the Production Order Maintenance>Reference tab and click on “Link Sales Order”, the sales order is not found, and therefore can’t be linked.When I go to the Sales Order and click “Link Prod Order”, the Production Order is listed, but the checkbox will not remain selected - to clarify, after the checkbox is clicked, it is automatically cleared during processing.Is there a way to make this link when manual numbering is set for production orders? 

I have a couple of questions regarding sales persons that are linked to employees which are linked to a user and how to use this set up conveniently in Acumatica. Basically I want the ability for the logged in user to only have access to the orders and customers which they are the default sales person for. This could be in reports, dashboards, GI screens, etc. @ME does not work as a value in the default sales person field.How can I set up a filter on the sales order screen to view all sales orders with my logged in user as the sales person. I want this filter to automatically default to show the logged in users customers and sales orders without having to set the filter explicitly to that sales person. I’d like the system to detect the salesperson based on the logged in user and reflect this in filters for sales orders. I’ve tried setting Default Sales Person = @ME but that doesn’t work.My Goal is to provide a filter to my sales persons so they can see all of the orders where they are

Does anyone have an import template for multi level BOMs.  I have BOMs that have multiple levels and include Outside processing. 2020 R2.

Good dayI have created a production order in my main tenant and on trying to release the Material transaction I am getting this error message “Error: Inserting 'IN Transaction' record raised at least one error. Please review the errors. Error: 'Reason Code' cannot be empty.”The reason codes are defined and set under the Inventory Preferences, how do I resolve this issue? 

HelloI was wondering how I could scrap some Raw Materials from materials already released to Production Order.I know that for Finish Goods it is done in Labor or Move screens via Scrap Qty.But how to proceed scrapping for Raw Materials in order to have actual data and not to make it by BOM - scrap factor?The use case is that our Customer from plastic industry applies for each Production Order some more quantity of raw material than in BOM and at the end of production some of that raw material can turn into waste.I would be grateful for any tipps. Thank you in advance. 

My company is wanting to use Acumatica for forecasting.  I have read several topics that I can find on this subject but haven’t found anything helpful yet.  We are wanting to be able to put in a yearly forecast for each month.  Some months will not be the same as others;  example Jan. -25, Feb - 30, March =100 and so on.  Is Acumatica able to do this kind of forecasting?  I am new to Acumatica and have only usesd APO in the past..  I can only find where you enter 1 qty for the part code and it doesn’t appear to be taking what is in WIP or safety stock into consideration.  

Where do you guys download device hub? 

Hello, I am getting an error when trying to create a purchase order from my Production Order. The Purchase order contains two non-stock items and upon “Processing” the Purchase Order I get two errors, one for each item, and the PO is never created. This only appears to be issues with Non-Stock items. Thoughts?

We are new to Acumatica and I am trying to get my head around whether certain items should be classified as stock or non-stock. What in my mind are stock items:The main manufacturing area of the business involves manufacturing mechanical / electronic products - usually from a series of subassemblies, each subassembly having it’s own BOM. The components are stored in a stock room in bins. They will then be sold and leave the system when a sales order is shipped. What I’m not sure about:Another area of the business runs courses to train people in virtual production. For the purposes of running the courses, some specialist equipment is purchased (e.g. cameras, tripods, batteries, switchers, recorders etc). We want to know/track what equipment we have, (and most of these items would be purchased via a PO which goes through an approval process), but the items are used in house to deliver the hands on courses - rather then getting sold directly to customers/sitting in a warehouse. Similarly,

We use standard costing, but I would also like to know what the actual last cost of items are that we receive in. The last cost information under the Cost Statistics section of an item is the last standard cost. Is there somewhere else I can go to see what the items last actual cost is?

Would anyone know if there is a posibility to update the start/end dates on an operation itself? i know you can update the actual work order but i would like to have seperate dates for each operation so each team have there own start date.Thanks!  

We are in the middle of implementation and I am writing a workflow for issuing Purchase Orders to Outside Process vendors for metal finishing (Ie: Powdercoating, Plating, etc),  however I am not certain that I am totally clear on the correct process. We have setup non-stock items to represent the outside processes.  These have been defined as a service, They have vendor(s) associated with them on the vendors tab and the default price as been set to $1.00.   On the manufactured (stock) item I have defined a BOM and on the operation step for the outside service I have added the Non-Stock item (Powdercoat) to the BOM as a material.  The qty required has been set to the per-piece cost that I was quoted,  the Unit cost remains at $1.00, The material type has been set to “Sub Contract” and the Subcontract Source has been set to “Purchase”.  On the Outside processes tab I have also checked the “Outside Process” box and have selected the preferred vendor for this operation.  I have then opened

Accidentally closed a production order before all material issues were done.We really need the lot/serial information of this material to be recorded on the production order.Since you can’t re-open a production order, how can these skipped issues be corrected?

Looking to understand how the release of materials on a production order relates with the production ticket. We are looking to use the production ticket as a picklist in our manufacturing facility, but the production ticket is driven from the Production Detail. The Production Detail only shows locations for items ordered through Critical Materials or items that have been manually allocated in Production Detail. We can have up to 60 line items on a Production Detail so manually allocating each item is not an efficient use of time. Additionally, most of our items are purchased through MRP, not Critical Materials. Is there anyway to automate inventory allocations to a production order? When releasing materials for a production order, the system will select a location by default but you can manually change the locations prior to release. In my mind, it makes sense to have a printable version of the material release which can then be provided to the warehouse staff for picking purposes (sin

When setting up a new item in Inventory, what is the maximum field length and are there any character restrictions such as spaces, @, #, *, -, etc.

We are currently trying to change the scrap percentage of a component which exists in thousands of parts, and it looks like the Mass Change function in Bills Of Materials work space is limited to only replace one part for another.  I was hoping there would be something that we could make a change to any field that exists in the BOM for a component and be able to reload to Acumatica.

Hi we are stuck and 2months behind in our implementation of Acumatica.   Our BOMs often consist of standard components and custom Make to Order components.  From the sales order it seems Acumatica generates the production order for the parent but uses MRP to generate the children.  The children production tickets then don’t contain information about the sales order or customer making it confusing for our shop production team (they don’t know what order the custom components are for).  We can’t use Auto Create Linked Orders or else it will disregard on hand inventory for standard components.  Hoping you can shed some light how you manage production tickets for sub assemblies?  

Is it possible to unlink a production order (RO A) from a Sales Order (SO A)? I know I can delete the Production Order but it is already in process and I would rather not disassemble. We decided to reallocate a different Production Order (RO B) of the same item to Sales Order A to get the order out quickly but we can not create a shipment because RO A is not completed yet. Any ideas?

Hi All, I am currently working on a Business Event that creates a Transfer of Production Material when the Production Order is released. (basically imitating a Staging process that is currently not supported very well). The Business Event is not firing with my current Setup.Only for with Once for all Records which then doesn’t accommodate the Material Details I need for the Transfer.Business Event:  Generic Inquiry it is based on:  I am not quite sure why it is not firing but any ideas and help would be appreciated!The same Setup worked for me for creating automated Transfer based on a Released Purchase Receipt.

The purpose of the Production Scheduling Whitepaper is to increase the reader’s knowledge of the scheduling processes available within Acumatica. It is strongly recommended to first complete the M100, M200 and M210 manufacturing education courses and be familiar with Acumatica processes and general work center and work calendar configurations. Upon completion of reading this document readers should understand:  Available scheduling methods within Acumatica   How Acumatica determines start and end dates for each scheduling method  What inputs are considered for each scheduling method The following concepts are NOT addressed in detail in this document as they are well covered in either Acumatica’s online help or the M100, M200, or M210 manufacturing education courses.  How to configure work centers   How to configure tools   How to configure machines   For Finite Scheduling, when to run APS Maintenance The following topics were excluded in the first version of this whitepaper but may be

The purpose of the Production Costing Whitepaper is to help users understand how Acumatica collects manufacturing costs and calculates the cost of an item produced via a production order.Upon completing the whitepaper, the reader should be comfortable with the following concepts:How financial information flows through a production order How production orders collect costs How Acumatica calculates the cost of an item produced from a(n) Actual, Estimated, or Standard Costing Production Order How scrap costs are calculated and processes This knowledge can be applied it to by-products, and disassembly production orders but these topics are not directly covered within the whitepaper.