Manufacturing

Hi,We have a client who is using the  “When Used” method of tracking serial numbers.  They have issued a part to a production order and it has failed in the assembly, we need to “un issue” the defective part and S/N and issue a new one.  We have tried to create a negative material transaction for the part and get this error “The material cannot be returned because the item with the SD-5874-4623-00007 lot or serial number has not been issued for the RO WO-000286 production order.”  We are copying the S/N from the material transaction for the production order in question.  Is there a way to un-issue When Used serial numbers from a production order? Appreciate any insight or ideas!

Hi All,So I’ve got a costing question for a stock item and I hope I can explain it well enough for someone hopefully to help me out!I currently use landed costs for many additional costs for PO’s (shipping/delivery/surcharges, etc.) and it works great because the parts get received into inventory and then the cost go directly onto them.I’m having an issue with stock items I have created for ‘outside processing’.  Once they are received in on the PO, they pretty much get moved thru the production order and the parts stay in inventory for about 5 minutes so if we get a landed cost later, the average cost of that stock item never gets updated because the quantity of stock is zero.I’ve tried doing WIP adjustments to the production order and do not see the costs carrying over.  Does anyone have any other ideas or suggestions on how to get these additional costs into the stock item?

My production ticket seems too be splitting locations of the same items and I’m trying to find ways to correct that. I also would like help to find a way to sort locations as well so I can have people pick from the same general area of where the items are by and not have them going all over the place when the sheet doesn’t have it in order. 

How can I add the BOM to a Production Order that has already been released?

When I create a Production Order for a specific assembly, the system grabs a BOM that is NOT set as the default. What am I doing wrong? Why doesn’t the RO use the default BOM? I’m assuming there is a setting somewhere I’m missing...Thanks!! 

Wir haben mal im Arbeitskalender CS209000 der Ressource Unterbrechungszeiten hinterlegt, diese sollten Pausen darstellen.Ich habe diese Zeiten in ALLEN Kalendern und Ressourcen wieder gelöscht und auch neue Aufträge damit erstellt.Trotzdem habe ich in der Ressourcen Planung AM000001 seit dem bis 2029 alle Pausen eingeplant und angezeigt. Auch “Planung und Kapazitäten aktualisieren” AM512000 hat diesen umstand nicht mehr ändern können.

I am trying to figure out how to get the status of an Engineering Change Request to be Rejected. When I reject a request it just puts it back into the On Hold status and allows the user to submit the change again. I’d like to figure out how to Reject it.

I want the “Mark for Production” checkbox to be selected automatically for certain components. I thought that this was achieved via this screen on the item, but it doesn’t seem to work as I’m expecting it to. Why doesn’t that field auto check/un-check based on the item settings?   

Hi,  We are looking at the Replenishment reporting.  We need to plan for future orders, our lead times can sometimes take longer than 3 months to get a stock in. What we need is to be able to plan future requirements.Example:  We have 1 item in stock and 2 on order and there are 3 SO in the system 2 as back order but not showing up on the Replenishment section. So, in effect by the time, we receive the PO we are already out of stock.  So, we would like to be able to review everything in one place to plan future orders to ensure that we have SOH. Our Items are high value, so we don’t hold too many items at the same time.Is there another area of the system that we could extract this information without going through individual Stock items (Inventory Summary isn’t sufficient for our needs and SOH inquiry) Thank you in advance.

Good morning all,  I want to run a report on the total $Dollar amount on all my registered materials based on minimum buy and maximum buy quantities.   Is Acumatica capable and how? Thank you 

I’m making a lot class change for a bunch of items and last area I need the clean up to allow it seems to be partially completed production orders.  Any suggestions on the best way to handle these so I can get them in a state I can change the lot class of the finished good?  Or are my 2 options complete or cancel if they still can be?  If so any tips on prep work to recreate the same status and links to POs. 

Does Estimate Lead Time (Days) actually translate to Lead Time in the Stock Item? It appears its just a text field but I have not gotten it to populate anywhere when using Create Inventory Items. The definition does not actually indicate anything other than a user enterable field.   

We want all of our MTO production orders to be linked the sales order. I also want our Production Orders for Subassemblies to be linked back to the top level production order. Inventory Planning Display of course see’s the demand but created production orders with no link. Since these items are strictly made to order, this is essential for business.Is there anyway to setup Acumatica to have this occur when a Stock Item is MTO? Or do we need to stick to using Create Purchase Order screen (AM510000)? Any help here would be greatly appreciated.

I have done some significant testing of MRP. I am unable to find a way to honor a Max Qty of an item. MRP is only suggesting orders for safety stock up to the Reorder Point. I have two clients that would really like to be able to populate both a Reorder Point (min qty) and a Max Qty for their items. Once they drop below Reorder Point, they would like a suggested order up to the Max Qty. Otherwise, as soon as you issue or sell one unit, you are back below Reorder Point and MRP suggests another purchase of 1 unit. This will lead to many additional purchase or manufacturing cycles. Inventory Replenishment handles Reorder Point (min) and Max Qty as expected.Is there anyway for MRP to honor a Max Quantity on its suggestions? How are others handling this?Thank you,Greg

For example : customer wants to buy 500 items , but we have only 499 in the warehouse (500-499 = 1 item out of stock) . We would like to record this as lost sales.

Would like to change the standard cost on a stock item, but we get the following error if there is a quantity in inventory.  I believe there is no away around this other than to adjust out inventory, make the change, then adjust it back in.  “IN Error: There is non zero Quantity on Hand for this item. You can only change Cost when the Qty on Hand is equal to zero” Is this correct?

We are implementing Acumatica. We have about 100 machines grouped into 5 work centers. A typical production order is about 300 pieces and typically runs 2-4 days. The issue we are having it that as we test scheduling it is spreading the work from one production order to all 25 machines in the work center. It is there a way to keep a single production order confined to a single machine without turning the all 100 machines into individual workcenters?

My team is beginning to implement production and purchase orders into the company, however, we have discovered that both are defaulting to the same location: receiving. This is fine for the purchase orders, however, the production orders need to go to shop done, but are defaulting to receiving despite not belonging there. Is there a solution to fix this?

I want to schedule the day and hour in Planning Board of Mnaufacturing Order manually! This is posible. But here comes the problem:Each time after saving the new scheduled date the System is reset the date and time on original values? (System is not keeping the manually changed dates!)I am using Acumatica 2021R2 (21.209.0034) Does anybody have some idea what could be wrong? Thanks a lot! 

MRP/Inventory Planning Display shows the demand type and related transaction, whether a sales order, forecast, safety stock, production order, etc. for the recommended supply order to be created. However, once the supply order is created, the demand type and related transaction do not follow with the related supply order. I have dealt with several clients who want this logic in MRP especially for created production orders (which sales order and customer?) and for create purchase orders (which production order or sales order?) The create purchase orders and create production orders are not great solutions, because they would like to have everything work through MRP and without the auto-allocations of the other screens.

I need some help with managing serial numbers in Production Orders. I've generated serial numbers for a Production Order (see Line Details in screenshot 1). As I perform moves or labor transactions, I want to move these serial numbers to the next operation. However, I can't seem to select these serial numbers during a move transaction.For example, we might have three serial numbers for a job, but only two of them move on to the next operation while one remains for further processing.Can anyone guide me on how to track and move these serial numbers, assigned at the Production Order level, through different operations? These serial numbers are for the finished goods, not the materials.Thank you in advance for your help!  

In the situation above, I have manually changed the Constraint date for the Parent Production Order. Is there a process I can run that would have the system automatically change the Subassemblies based on this change? Our environment is heavily made to order and I am struggling to understand how to properly use APS. I already have been made aware that overlapping operations is not possible, but I would expect the system to at least adjust constraints based on linked order changes….Just showing here they are in fact linked as parent/child orders…. 

Is there any option or formula in Generic inquiry to know total number of line Bills of Material?

When the Action Date for a Purchased Item is in the past (meaning Promise Date is less than today plus lead time), creating a Purchase Order from the Inventory Planning Display results in a PO with a line Promise Date equal to today plus the Item’s lead time. Is there a way to use the date from the requirement rather than pushing it out to full lead time? This doesn’t communicate to the Vendor that we would like the item sooner than their normal lead time if possible.

What is the difference between the 2 planning methods (MRP and Inventory Replenishment)?