Manufacturing

We have recently updated our overhead rates on some of our Work Centers. when applying labor to a production order that was created before the update date the old rate is being used. If the production order was created after the update it is using the new rate. Is this a bug or a feature? if it is a feature is there a way to have the older production order use the new rate? 

The MRP whitepaper (which is excellent by the way) has the following diagramBut the paper doesn’t address which calendar is used for counting days. From my testing, it appears that MRP uses (regular) calendar days when looking at consolidating production orders. When looking at consolidating production orders:is that correct should it use the manufacturing calendar instead?

According to the help the BUCKET DAYS in the MRP Preferences and the DAYS OF SUPPLY in the stock item are doing exactly the same, even if they have different labels.If I only use the MRP Preferences (without overriding the days of supply in the item) nothing is consolidated!Only if I override the “days of supply” on the stock item, the demand of this item will be consolidated.Is there any purpose behind the “bucket days” in the MRP Preferences?My assumption was that this is the general set up for all “MRP-Items” & the field on the stock item is for overriding the set up for this specific item. 

Hey community ! Hope you are all doing well!I have a a production order which is completed but still has some material that has not been released.I am unable to release it now and the late assignment is not doing anything.The inventory is also showing up on allocation details as Production demand, wanted to clean this out before we start using MRP.Allocation DetailsCan someone please help in understanding how to fix this. Also, to avoid this in future, if I select do not allow in the following setting, this will not allow users to complete the production order until the material is issued/allocated to the production order correct?  

Hi All,When I click on test configuration under product configurator in MFG module, then it’s giving below error. 

What are the use cases of Generic Inquiry ?

Hi all,I’m trying to do a disassemble order in production with serial numbers.  However we don’t build parts with backflushed serial numbers and I need to get a serial number back into inventory but its not allowing me to select an already used serial number.  ANyone ever have to do this?

Scenario: A sales order is entered for qty 100 of a manufactured item. A production order is created for all 100 pieces to drive the material requirements.Only 5 pieces are going to be produced and shipped this week, but when the RELEASE MATERIALS action is selected, Acumatica always puts the total material for the whole production order (unless there are shortages) and the user has to adjust every single line so that material is only released to cover the 5 units being produced (there could be hundreds of line items): Is there a way to select the quantity to be produced off of the production order, and have Acumatica calculate the required component quantity automatically so that each line doesn’t have to be manually adjusted?The work around I have them using right now is to export this list from the Material Wizard to excel, use excel to calculate the required quantities for the partial production quantity and then upload the spreadsheet on the Materials screen as a new transaction. 

Our product has certain components that trigger a hardware bag that goes into a kit box for on-site installation by the End Customer.  For instance, if a Door is included in an order, the kit box will contain a Door Hardware Kit Bag.  That kit bag will contain:(6 EA) Carriage Bolts - CARRBOLT (6 EA) Wing Nuts - WINGNUT (6 EA) Nylon Acorn Nuts - ACORNNUT (6 EA) Washers - WAHSEREach of the above-listed Items are Stock Items with Inventory IDs Contained in a BOM (let’s say the BOM’s Inventory ID is HDW-DOOR, and the above-listed items are are in that BOM).Is there a way of extracting the BOM Contents of HDW-DOOR and exporting the contained Stock Items & Quantities to a Hardware Bag Label for printing to a Print Job via Bartender to a a Zebra Printer?It would look something like this (preferably with a header containing the Customer Name and Sales Order Number):  John Doe - SO # 003567Door Hardware(6 EA) Carriage Bolts - CARRBOLT (6 EA) Wing Nuts - WINGNUT (6 EA) Nylon Acorn Nuts - ACO

I am trying to create several planning BOMs using the current visual BOM for our products that we manufacture.  When generating the visual BOM there are several sub-assemblies that do not have their parts listed underneath them.  When I check their BOMs everything is active in them and nothing is on hold. In the below example the assembly RPH1-01000-03 should have an exploded view with all the parts associated with it underneath it. 

Hi,Is there any option to define a scrap factor for a finished good item or subassembly. This factor should be considered in MRP in deciding the material requirement.  Thanks,Nadeeka

We start with 60x288 raw sheets of metal and cut them down to 60x248 (just as one example) in high volumes.  The 60x248 makes the primary part #, the 60x40 is a usable drop/remnant.  I would like to inventory these 60x40 “drops” (by-product) and give them value, because we’ll use them later for plasma cutting small parts.When creating the BOM for the primary part #, I am consuming the entire 60 x 288 material, and then adding the by-product (60x40) as a negative quantity.  This works great for inventory tracking purposes, because the by-product is added to inventory each time we do a Move on the primary part #.My concern is costing.  We use average costing, so do not revalue our inventory (as you would in a standard costing environment).  The value of steel fluctuates widely, and therefore the theoretical cost of that 60x40 drop should change relative to the cost of the 60x288 raw sheet.  However, in order to accomplish this, I have to manually do calculations for a 60x40 portion of a

Hi,Could you please anyone explain how can we set an expiration date for the item produced when we report the production through production order? Best Regards,Dulanjana

Hey Everyone, If I have a stock item, HHH000BX0001, and there are multiple artwork version created (physically), how can I differentiate those versions in Acumatica while still keeping only 1 ID? I’d like to avoid using the LOT/PO function if possible.  Being able to use only 1 ID will allow to track cost under only 1 ID version having to filter and consolidate multiple ID’s. 

Looking for a way to show a list of Sales Orders where the Production Orders tied to it all have a Status of completed. Does anyone have a suggestion on how to group/sort this? 

Does anyone have any experience with scrapping a part number in a production while including the serial number?  i tried to move a production order with a scrap of 1 and qty of zero but it won’t let me put a serial number in the field.

Is there a purpose for the selected checkbox on the Cost Roll Process screen? I thought this would be what to check or uncheck for the parts that I want to update the pending cost on, but this does not work that way. All stock items listed get the pending cost imported when I select the “Update Pending” whether or not the check box next to the item is marked. 

I am trying to create production orders from a sales order, but I keep getting this message:Creating production orders: At least one item has not been processed.I have done this hundreds of times, but I have never had this difficulty before.  What am I missing here?

Why does the link to a Sales Order become null and void once I close production orders at the end of a period?  In order to properly align our WIP activities with production, I would like to Close all completed production orders.  However, this causes issues on the shipping end with our Sales Orders.  Is this a common problem?

I am trying to set up the automatic email function where I can email a PO to a vendor but am unsure where I need to add the vendor contact and speicify that they are a PO recipient.  I can’t seem to find any other threads regarding this issue.  Can someone please help with this?

Is there a process that would disassemble a configured - serialized item?My first thought was that I have to reference the production order the item was produced on, but I have not been able to get the results I need with what I’ve tried.

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? 

As part of our manufacturing process we outsource components or services that we cant establish as  individual stock items. For example, part of production might involve sending elements off to be powder coated before they are sent back to us for being assembled. We raise a PO for these services using a non-stock inventory code.I am yet to find a way to record these costs on the production order, they are expensed on receipt and unlike a true inventory item they don't backflush and cant be allocated as cost to the production order.As a result our cost of production is never 100% accurate as these service elements are never included.Has anyone found a solution to this?

MRP and Production Orders (Scheduling Method Finish On or Start On) use a straight run time calculation to manage dates, not taking into account Crew Size for the work center.  Can Acumatica MRP and Production Orders take crew size into account?Here’s the conflict as the system works today.  In order to make MRP and Production Order dates work, you would have to add run time to the BOM equal to the straight time, and then adjust your work center Standard Cost equal to your rate x the crew size.  For example, if a BOM takes 10 hours to move through a work center, but you have a crew size of 3, really I would like to put 30 hours (man hours) of run time in that operation, and put your real standard cost rate (for one person) on the work center, say it’s $25/hr.  But to make MRP and Production Order dates work properly, currently in the system you would have to put 10 hours straight time as the run time and adjust your work center Standard Cost rate to $75 in order to account for the labo

I need to create 2 user roles and assign permissions to it for:1. Sales Price Worksheet: AR2020102. Sales Prices: AR2020003. Customer Price Classes: AR208000One is a view-only role, the other will be insert/delete.When I go to Access Rights by Role, there is no option (+) to create a new role. And without a role I can’t add permissions (View/Insert) to a group.None of the existing roles with access will work, as this is for a new group (Sales team) to have access and the groups are financial roles mostly.Any help would be appreciated, thanks!