Manufacturing

HI Acumatica users-Help!I would like to “explode” a Bill of material against a Parent (FG) quantity.    I have not found a way to do this- other requirements to run it through MRP.   My company uses contract manufacturers,   and we need to create scenarios on lower-level components. In Most ERPs systems this is a very basic function-so I am not sure what I am missing 

Hey everyone, I have looked at all of the online help regarding planning buckets and I still don’t have a good grasp as to what a planning bucket actually is and how I should set them up. Can anyone help further explain what they are for? Thanks!

What are the ISVs available for Advanced Material and Production Planning and quality control for manufacturing client?

Has anyone been able to create supply type purchase orders without creating production order?Example:You have a raw material (stock item) You send this raw material out to get modified by a vendor (let’s say adding color to it) They do whatever they need to do to modify it They send it back to you and you receive it in as a different stock item (for us it’s another raw material we will then use for a production order) I understand creating the bill of materials with the service and the raw materials, but creating a production order to do this does not align with what we are doing (that is suppliers responsibility to have a production order).  So this is creating additional work for something that is a rather simple process. We simply want to create a vendor purchase order, pick the material needed to the purchase order and then receive it in as another item. I can’t find a way to pick raw materials to purchase order to capture that cost and include the traceability

hi All, I am using configurator in my production order and I want the system to use this specific warehouse to issue the material from shed 2 if I select 1022 itemwhen I create the production order and I check the detail it is not assigning the one I had used on my configuration and instead used the warehouse on the finished good item. on the header of production order maintenance! why is that ? this is not what I am expecting based on the help.thanks for your help in advance Ghazal Warehouse This is the warehouse from which this material should be issued. If not specified, the warehouse from the assembly is used.  

Hello,I am trying to tinker in the system to get project manufacturing working as it says it should (for my knowledge and understanding) but I feel like there is something I am missing. I am using standard sales demo snapshot and 23R1. Please see the below for steps I’ve taken to attempt to get project transactions generated through a production order. I am expecting both labor and materials to come through and am currently seeing neither.Create production order on project (‘Update Project’ is checked) Material and labor transactions created No corresponding project transactions created  

This new feature is a very useful one.  I assumed that it might take into account the corresponding vendor price breaks for different volumes but now I am not so sure.  The documentation does not mention this.I suppose that it would mean that the estimate pricing process would need to do an MRP look up, but anything is possible.  Also vendor pricing of materials by volume is one of the key factors in unit cost changes by volume.Does it ?ThanksJames  

I am trying to create a Selector Type Attribute, to use in a User Defined Field, in Cases.  The purpose is to select from a list of sold Serialized Items to track cases for warranty.  Any ideas?  I have tried various tables, but none provides a resulting list of serialized items.Thank you

When I go to close a production order I sometimes get an error that says there are open transactions that need to be released before the production order can be closed. This all makes sense but I find it very difficult to pin point which transaction (materials, labor, or move) isn’t released. In most cases it’s a second materials transaction that someone forgot they started and created a new one. Unfortunately the unreleased transactions do not show up on the events page of the production order (which also makes sense). How else can I track down what transaction is holding up the closing process?Thank you!

Hi,I'm encountering an issue with Manufacturing Backflush. I have a production order where all the component materials are set to backflush. The problem is that, despite having sufficient stock in the warehouse, the system is throwing an "out of stock" error during the move transaction. There’s plenty of inventory in the system, but it’s not being recognized during the move. Is there a specific logic that the system follows when selecting a location for backflushing? I’ve noticed that when there is stock in the location defined in the production header, the error doesn’t occur.  I believe the system should check all the locations within the warehouse that are set to "production allowed.

Wanted to make the community aware of a somewhat rare occurrence but meaningful.  We had an infrequent occurrence by our engineering team of naming a Component BOM in the Materials of a higher level BOM.  When this Component BOM was archived but NOT removed from the higher level BOM and demand elements drove the need to generate a production order, the entire MRP (inventory planning) job failed with an error “Inventory Planning Error…...specifies the BOM details…..The given key was not present in the dictionary.” In other conditions when a BOM is archived at the top level (Finished Good), MRP will complete the run and recommend a production order.  If executed, the production order will have no BOM ID in it (and thus no production content).  We have flags to identify this error.   I’m just surprised the entire MRP job fails. This seems like a problem; I’d rather the job complete with errors.  Fairly random occurrence but seems like something that should get fixed.  We are operating wit

I am attempting to create a kit BOM GI to send to our warehouse. Our warehouses uses our products alternate ID (in this case ISBN) to identify our products. Is there a way to return the alternate ID for the kit header as well as each of the components? Thanks,​​​​​

Hi all, I am creating a Production order using a configuration, I don’t have default warehouse nominated on my configuration lines. instead I am expecting the default issue warehouse on stock item or on item warehouse detail takes precedence of which warehouse the item should be issued from. by the look of the behavior it picks the warehouse attached to the work center instead. why is it behaving like this? we can’t ask a customer to override every line ! configurator setup item warehouse detail setup stock item setup the way it appears on the production line it should be picking shed 2 not the Fin Goods warehouse. not sure where is this going wrong?Thanks Ghazal 

Is there a way to update the Stock Item ID associated to a BOM, without deleting and re-creating the BOM?   Thanks!

Is there a way to set up a maximum production amount for a single production order?Example:We have a custom seed mix that we make in house. Our mixer can hold up to 450 pounds total. I want to be able to limit a single production order to 450 pounds or less being made.Thanks!

What benefits do you get from manufacturing data collection beyond the standard product?What additional functionality is provided?Are there any good references showing why a company would purchase this?

Is there a setting to allow using the same lot number for an item for multiple production orders?  I have a client that tracks the lot number of the component.  They usually create several orders to consume the component, but can’t use the same lot number across multiple production orders.  

Hi All,Wanted to get some opinions on the Manufacturing Data Collection module. What is your experience with it? Has it helped your operation? Is it worth getting? Would love to hear some scenarios where it helped.I was fond of the ‘Scan Material’ and ‘Scan Move’ functions, I definitely see that helping the team with minimizing manual data entry and all. Thank you!

Hi Team, I want to create approval process screen for Equipment and facing difficulties that EPEquipment Standard PrimaryDAC not implemented with IAssign interface. I am getting following error error CS0311: The type 'PX.Objects.EP.EPEquipment' cannot be used as type parameter 'SourceAssign' in the generic type or method 'EPApprovalAutomation<SourceAssign, Approved, Rejected, Hold, SetupApproval>'. There is no implicit reference conversion from 'PX.Objects.EP.EPEquipment' to 'PX.Data.EP.IAssign'. Regards,Sakthi

I am trying to create an import scenario that will create purchase orders from production orders.  I need to have a separate PO for each production order.  

I’ve created a sales order with one line and a production order by Rest-API. I would like to link these orders by API. PUTing "SOLineNbr", "SOOrderNbr", "SOOrderType" into production order object doesn’t work. These fields stay null. The other way i get an error: "An error occurred during processing of the field AMProdOrdID: A numbering sequence for the order type is not configured.." Which is wrong.Any ideas?

Working on using replenishment.  However the message references a screen we don’t have access too.  I believe that module was turned off in enable/disable, but Inventory Planning Should still work.  Is this just a bug?    

Hello! We are a manufacturing company, and we currently use the Inventory Planning Display screen to view what finished goods need to be manufactured in order to meet sales orders and safety stock. I would like to have the same information pulled as a generic inquiry (no actions, obviously) for the potential to utilize it with business events for production planning down the road while also using it to build a dashboard. Has anyone ever tried to make the Inventory Planning Display as a GI? Could I see how it was created? Thanks! 

Few questions as it relates to backflushing of materials against a production order:How does the system flag us if we do not have enough stock of items marked for backflush? In our current model (without use of backflush), we utilize a warning message on Move transactions. This warning message flags us that there are unreleased materials to be issued. This is great as it ensures all material gets issued. Now that we have certain items marked for Backflush, all these items appear in the warning message - making it impossible to decipher which will be issued during the Move transaction (backflush) and which are true unreleased materials.  Is there a way to use warning message while omitting backflushed items?