Manufacturing

Our business just began manufacturing; we have always imported and distributed. However, now we are taking our raw materials and converting into a finished good. We do not have the manufacturing module. We have the distribution module and are in the process of implementing a WMS.If I am not going to implement MFG module right now, how would I keep track of raw materials, finished goods and waste? I have outlined my original thought process below, but I am afraid it will be time consuming and opens up the possibility for mistakes. I am open to ideas and recommendations.I have thought about creating a new “Inventory Adjustment” for every sales order. In the “Description”, I would put the SO# and the Job Name so that I could identify the order. Then I would deduct inventory from the raw material to account for the finished good and the waste. And I would add inventory to the finished good. This way, the inventory is now accounted for and we can create a shipment from the SO and invoice th

Hi All, For anyone who ships from the software, which third party software are you using to support your processes? We currently use Fusion and the team is questioning the solution to make they have the best needs for processes. We also use Zebra handhelds on the floor to pick and pack. Thank you!

We have a repair facility where we need to start with a repair quote (RQ) and move to an Repair Order (RO) once we receive authorization to proceed with repair from customer.  I need to open a production order on the Quote as I need to post labor right away for the evaluation.  When I start in quote, the mark for production box is grayed out. We are currently on release 2024 R2. Do I have a setting wrong?  Is this even possible?  Will the production move from quote to order properly?  Anyone doing something similar that has come up with a way to do this or a work around?

there is available inventory but i am still getting this message.    There is enough availability on hand.  i am only allocating 2 pcs and the system shows 5 available between my two shipping locations.  i’ve checked Inventory Allocation Details but i'm not sure how to read it.   but i did check all the sales orders with this part number and i don't have any allocated as show in Inventory summary above.    Any help in pointing me in the right direction would be great.   

Has anyone ever run across a production order that will not come off hold status? I click the button, and it will not release.   

Should the Stock Item Inventory Planning Settings > Manufacture Lead Time affect the Action Date in Inventory Planning if the Source method is Purchase? Currently, it appears that it does. However the field is defined to only be accessible IF the manufacturing feature is enabled. My concern is this is a bug. Before we populate this field for General Item Lead times, id like to know if this is intentional or not. Stock Item SettingsInventory Planning DisplayAMMFGLeadTime 

Hi all,Is it possible to create a BOM for a non-stock item? As my team described it to me, they want to do this as it’s not an “item” per se but more of a “service” with no on-hand inventory levels. Is this possible? Any docs/tutorials on this if it is possible?

Acumatica allows expired materials to be used in production despite the fact that an expiration date is set. No warning to user or hard stop.Does anyone have a workaround for this other than a custom inquiry that allows to find expired material and remove it from the shelves?We are in a regulated industry (medical device) and current feedback from Quality is that the workaround is not sufficient and an active warning, if not a stop, from the system is the minimum that has to be implemented.

How can we setup a different description that would appear on customer-facing forms (sales orders, invoices, etc.)? We have some stock items that have slightly different configurations but we would like them to have the same description on a SO or invoice. We do however need the additional detail for our team to be able to differentiate which stock item we are putting on the transaction. 

Hello,Is there a way to have the production order you create via the MRP display screen automatically linked to the sales order creating the demand?Or is it required that you manually create the linkage?Thanks,Larry

Hello, I am looking for input to a new process that we are looking to manage through Acumatica. We have a raw material that we purchase from one vendor. We will now be sending this material to another vendor to add a process step, altering the single stock item into 3 new stock items.We do not have MRP right now. Is there any way to achieve this in Acumatica without MRP? Do you have anything you can recommend to replicate this process and the cost of everything on these materials within Acumatica?  In the reading I have done, everything requires the Manufacturing module. I would appreciate your input.

I know Constraint is what defines it, but obviously the start and end date won’t be the same for every Production Order. What would automatically adjust the end date to be a different day from the start day? 

Subassembly item, “item A” is included in materials for various Manufacturing Formulas.For “item A” we create independent batch tickets.However, every time a Super Batch using a Formula that includes “item A” is generated, a sub batch is also generated for “item A”.Is there any way to discontinue the creation of sub batches for certain subassembly items?

Depending on valuation method, SOLine cost is either last cost or average cost. For highly variable configured items, that doesn't work well and throws off margin calculations. Is there a way to cost an item based on the configuration, similar to what the configurator does for item price. 

Hi Acumatica MFG People, We have service contracts that include a replenish plan for stock items which are manufactured.I create schedules, one with a yearly schedule to replace some equipment, which we manufacture.I initiate the action, "Generate from service contracts", on my service contract schedule and get a service order which includes my item replenishment and some inspection work.My question to you all is, "I am looking to see if MRP picks up the demand of this replenishment (these are MFG stocked items).I look at the Inventory Allocatin Details report for this part and I do see the demand from this service order.I would assume with the right set-ups, execution of MRP will create production order to account for this demand, right?I probably need to take a different direction than a service contract and service order because I have no way to account for the shipping of the inventory to the customer as part of the appointment, right?Thanks,Patrick

Any one having a experience about BOM structure for Glove Manufacturing Industry?

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

It seems this has been asked similarly before but I didn’t see a complete answer.Our client employs a laser machine to cut metal sheets, generating components.Assuming each metal sheet produces 100 pieces of a specific component, for an order of 50 pieces, 0.5 sheets are utilized, leaving 0.5 sheets in stock. Subsequently, for a 75-piece order, 0.75 sheets are consumed, leaving 0.25 sheets in stock. Their software aids in optimizing sheet cutting for order fulfillment.In Acumatica, the current inventory balance is calculated by adding 0.5 and 0.25, resulting in 0.75 sheets on hand. While this is accurate mathematically, it lacks practicality for production planning or MRP.To address this issue, one potential solution is to establish distinct warehouse locations: "Main" for whole sheets and "Remnants" for partial sheets. The Remnants location will be excluded from available inventory calculations, allowing MRP to consider only the Main location. If Remnants need to be factored in, adjus

Process: Chemical Manufacturing Company wants to blend existing Lot controlled Inventory Qty into new Stock production order.Example: New production order to produce 5300 LB. We have 88 LB of existing inventory. When the production order is generated, the raw materials list is as expected from the BOM. We want the production managers to manually add the existing material, and increase the qty produced by the end of the production process.My first attempt was to increase the Qty to Produce, but this increases all raw materials equally.My second attempt was to simply increase the Material and Move transactions but the move transaction gave me this error:“The transaction cannot be created for Production Order RO PRD001117 because the item quantity exceeds the preassigned item quantity for the 2504154927 lot or serial number.”We are pre-assigning lot numbers.Anyone have any idea’s for best practice to included extra material and increase qty completed?

Does anyone have any tips relating to KPI Dashboards on a big screen TV?  Couple issues: The system will boot out the login after 15 minutes of inactivity.  Have setup a dummy login with limited permissions only to particular dashboard.  How to setup so don’t have to login every few hours?   Any hardware recommendations?  Mini-PC or Android something?  Thanks you

Stock item has demand and shows up in Inventory planning display.Source accurately shows as “Manufacturing”.It has an active BOM.I select the line and click the action of “Manufacture”.It looks like it is working, and the message comes up “The operation has completed”.However, the line remains in the inventory planning display grid, and not production order is created.Any thoughts why the production order is not created?Thanks!

Hi All -  New to the community here but wanted to share a GI our team put together to see if it would help anyone else. This GI takes in a qty, warehouse, and BOM.Based on the BOM and quantities it will calculate how much you could make based on each item alone. It will format the line item as green (if enough to make the qty listed on the header) or red (if insufficient to make the qty listed on the header).Looking to share this and learn more as we are new in the community!

Anyone see this before - For New Items - <NEW> tag plus a totally different item Description Nor New - I have not even put in a Description yet …..

Is it possible to hard allocate a part that is listed as a material requirement and marked for production on a parent production order? When the child production order is completed, we’ve had problems with a sales order getting shipped when the part was needed for the production order first (hence the link production order).  If we have a 3 production orders for 3 machines and each one requires part 123 so we create the production orders that will then be linked to parent machine jobs. We can also sell part 123 on sales orders too, so when a production order that is linked to a parent order is moved into inventory, why does does Acumatica allow a shipment for the part that was made and linked to a machine production order?

We have a client that has a bit of a unique product where they are mixing lots of product and creating the same product but after testing they get a new lot number. This is very similar to Super Batch in Process manufacturing. You cannot put the same product in a BOM that you are trying to put into finished goods because you cannot have a circular reference, but you can manually add the same lot/serialized item into a production order. They are looking for a solution to be able to to mix these lots of the same product, and I was trying to see if there have been any ideas out there besides doing manual adds of the lots (which may be the best option, but throwing it out there)