Manufacturing

We went live with our inventory system in Acumatica in January of 2022 and every single month we have dealt with unreleased production transactions against jobs that are already closed. We found out that when you approve the last step of the production order it automatically marks it complete. I believe this should not be possible, especially if there are unreleased transactions against it.Acumatica has tons of checks and balances before marking anything complete and I think that a production order should not be able to go into complete status until everything has been released. Just like Acumatica won’t let you release an entry without matching debits and credits, this should also be implemented for Inventory. 

How do users manage tooling?  For instance, I’d like to understand which parts use specific manufacturing tools.  Like a where used for tooling?  I see where others suggest incorporating tools, templates, jigs and fixtures into “stock items” (this a hokey solution and not how to use an ERP).  Additionally, I see where certain parts or BOM’s can “consume” tooling (assume that this is for machine tooling consumable cost capture), but how do non-consumable tools get cost accounted and managed long term for inventory and tracking within Acumatica?   In short - there should be a backend tooling data base and a way to pull a “where used” to see which parts tools are tied to.  

We recently upgraded to 24R2 and when I was trying to complete a move transaction on a lot of material, it would throw the below trace error. I was able to successfully complete both labor and material issue transactions with out any issues, but it seems like the move function is simply no longer functional.  

It is my understanding in Acumatica Labor Overhead is not calculated unless you apply a qty to an operation. It is also my understanding that this qty triggers a “move” (but not into inventory) operation which kicks off the Labor over head calculation. Which is fine in many cases however in some case you have long run assembly time where you might be on an operation for a long period of time. The pitfall here is you will not be able to track the labor dollars effectively until you post a qty complete to an operation (even if that operation may not be complete in reality).  Couldn’t this behavior just be a preference to allow the labor transaction to trigger the overhead? Even if the qty complete it posted as 0?  I hope that all makes sense. 

We have lots of items that need to be marked for production, but I don't want our sales team to have to understand when to do this and when not to. I've utilized the "Make to Order Item" checkbox on the stock item screen and that works great. However, when placing an item on a quote, it does not automatically mark for production. No problem because it's just a quote at this stage. However, when we copy the quote to a sales order, I want all items to automatically mark for production. Is it possible to do this?

Problem: When a production order is created for a configured item, the “Mark for PO” box does not get checked on production materials that have the “Dflt. Mark For” value set to “Purchase” on the inventory item record. This means that no purchase demand will show up on the “Create Purchase Orders” screen and the purchasing manager will not be aware of any custom order materials that are required until production employees are ready to perform the operation and discover that materials have not been ordered.Affected Versions:2024R2 (all builds, as far as I am aware)Simple Workaround:Immediately upon learning of this problem, I created a Generic Inquiry to enable a user to easily view affected records. This displays Production Material lines where Mark For PO is false, but the Dflt Mark For value on the inventory item is Purchase. This is great, but potentially a lot of work, since it has to be reviewed regularly and requires a manual correction. I’ve attached the GI below, in case any ot

How do you create a default part in the product configurator?

Hello,We are revisiting our workflow for generating production orders based on MRP recomendations and looking at ways to automate the process. I have figured out how to automate MRP Regeneration to run on a daily schedule however I have not been able to figure out how to automatate the generatation of planned work orders for manufactured items based on the information in the Inventory Planning Display Screen.  Ideally we would like to generate Planned produciton orders for all items with suggested action dates in the next 6 weeks.   I started off by looking the “Create Supply Orders” button,  but that just seems to take me to the Inventory Planning Display Screen, not sure if that is correct or not.    Regardless I am looking for some input on how to automate this process.We are running Build 23.211.0017

We are using MRP to identify when we need to manufacture an item.   MRP is adding the Quantity Remaining to Produce from a production order to the Qty On Hand.  In the example below the Qty On Hand shows 50 but in the first line below it is adding 168 to that number making the total Qty On Hand 218.  The 168 is what is remaining on the production order to be completed. I’ve also included a screen shot of the production order showing the 168 Remaining to produce.  How can I tell MRP not to add the remainder on a production order to the qty on hand?  

Hello,We recently been having this issue or every screen loading 10 secs before the next screen.Upon checking our AWS cloud we have never reached over 50% memory or cpu in the task manager.We still have 30% space left in our DB storage.Any advice on what should we do?This is how it’s like sometimes on a daily basis  Our version/build:Acumatica Cloud ERP 2022 R2Build 22.212.0046 +

Is it possible to have a part default in the configuration?  We have a client who uses the same door 95% of the time but needs the option to select a different door.

We have an automation schedule that prints our shipping labels every minute after the shipments have been confirmed.  These prints are sent to our zebra printers and usually work without issue.  Some cases the label does not print and there is no error.How can we reprint a label for a confirmed shipment?  If we can identify which print job it is we can reprint it that way, but there is no way to preview the label and there are no identifiers in the print job screen to know which label is correct

Production detail includes backflushed non-stock items for outwork so that the value of outwork is included in finished goods. Detail Lines are marked for PO and POs will be created from the production order. This does not work unless the non-stock item is not flagged to require receipt. You can create a purchase order outside of the production order as normal. There is no need to receipt the PO, it will be matched to an AP invoice. How to create POs from production orders for non-stock items without PO Receipting ? 

Can i add a UL label to a BOM?

hi All, we have 35 items on a sales order and we need to create a production order of 35 qty ( all in one production order). when creating a production order system only creates 1 qty production order. on the create production order pop up screen I have made sure it is 35 but still only creates 1. is there any setting we might have missed? ThanksGhazal 

Hello all,We are running 2023R1 manufacturing and we are trying to Generate Orders for Sub Assemblies from assembly Inventory ID’s, but we are coming up multiple instances of this same error.AM Error: The following error occurred when the system tried to copy the BOM: Error: An error occurred during processing of the field Inventory ID value 32369-20030 IN Error: The inventory item is a template item.Highlighted is just one of multiple Inventory ID that this error could occur on.  We do not have any templates in our system and none of the Inventory ID are template items.  Actually Matrix Items is not enabled in our system.When we look at the BOM for say this inventory ID 32369-20030 it shows a warning that 32369-20030-1 is a template item, but again this is not a template. (see image attached)When we open the stock item screen for the assembly with the warning (32369-20030-1) add a space to the description, save the stock item the warning goes away.But this does not hold and we just mo

Customer has a legitimate reason to have production order qty exactly 1. I have tried setting Min Order Qty and Max Order Qty to 1 on the manufacturing tab, but when I create a production order from a sales order line with a quantity greater than 1, I still get that quantity in a single production order, rather than multiple production orders being created with a quantity of 1.Has anyone been successful getting MFG Max Order qty to work for this scenario? No success on 24R1 nor on 23R2. 

When Creating a new item, I select Planning Method - Inventory Replenishment for planning method but then I CAN NOT enter anything in the table for Replenishment Parameters in the Inventory Planning tab.  What is the cause?

I did Multi Level Cost roll for Sub assembly Item and then on the finished goods , however it shows VOH and VL on Subassembly item not on Finished goods   , Kindly advise

Hi everyone,I'm facing an issue with a production order where the total quantity to produce was set to 11 units. However, the system shows that 22 units have been completed, even though the operator only received 11 units.Does anyone have insights into why the completed quantity is doubling, or what might be causing this discrepancy? Any advice on how to resolve this would be appreciated!

Hey everyone, I know we can use the Mass Change function to swap one item for another across multiple BOMs.  Is it possible to use function to just remove an item without swapping out another one.

@Debbie Baldwin or anyone else familiar with this functionality in 2024R2.We were eagerly awaiting the ability to turn off backward reporting since we had built custom, complicated, resequencing logic to allow out-of-sequence reporting in 23R2. It worked well for the most part, but seemed to have some hidden issued that surfaced occasionally. In testing this new functionality in 24R2, it doesn’t seem to support what we actually need. I’m hoping I just don’t understand it. Example business case: Since we manufacture storage sheds, a production order may have the following operations.1. Framing2. Paint3. Roofing4. Electrical1 is completed first, but then subsequent operations may be completed in any different order,resulting in (1, 2, 3, 4), (1, 2, 4, 3), (1, 4, 3, 2) etc. From all my testing with creating/completing production orders with backward reporting turned off, it seems that the original “Last Operation” is fixed and only prior operations can be reported out of sequence. Is that

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How to assign Raw material lot number to Finished goods in the production Order.

Client is preassigning auto numbered lot numbers for manufacturing. The original RO is for a qty (48), but because less material was scrapped, they were able to make 49. Trying to update the qty to 49 on the Move looks like it will work:But it makes this error:Any ideas or settings we are overlooking?