Manufacturing

HelloI was wondering how I could scrap some Raw Materials from materials already released to Production Order.I know that for Finish Goods it is done in Labor or Move screens via Scrap Qty.But how to proceed scrapping for Raw Materials in order to have actual data and not to make it by BOM - scrap factor?The use case is that our Customer from plastic industry applies for each Production Order some more quantity of raw material than in BOM and at the end of production some of that raw material can turn into waste.I would be grateful for any tipps. Thank you in advance. 

We are preparing our system for go live and would like to upload some sales figures from this year into the Generate Forecasts form to predict next years (2024) demand. I have extracted the figures from our current system and am preparing an upload into the screen below. The upload will be a list of items c/w begin and end dates and quantities. My question is; do I enter the begin and end dates for each month as historical (e.g. between 01/05/23 & 31/05/23 we sold 35 of a particular item) or predicted (e.g. between 01/05/24 & 31/05/24 we think we are going to sell 35 of a particular item based on last years’ sales)? 

We have a need to be able to put multiple replenishments on a single item within the same warehouse. Our case for it is that our inventory control teams need to be able to deliver an item to a production line (Warehouse) in different locations. We use a Warehouse in Acumatica for each production line. But we can’t apply a replenishment for that warehouse because we have a single item occur multiple times on that production line. So we have to use a 3rd party system to notify our inventory control team to deliver the items to the production line. We would love to be able to no longer use that system but rather utilize the replenishment through transfer feature in Acumatica.  Any suggestions would be great!

Is anyone aware of how to override the default replenishment settings on an import scenario for stock items? 

Interesting situation - a production order with WIP balance and a user Canceled it by mistake. There doesn’t seem to be any path of correcting this user error. I was wondering if community might have any thoughts? 

We have recently deployed Acumatica in a live environment, but have noticed some issues on the costing.It appears that if a Production Order Detail uses material with UOMs other than the base UOM, any negative move would lead to backflushing negative Material Issues of incorrect quantities and amount. To illustrate this, we tested two production orders - one with materials in the base UOM (KG), one in materials not using the base UOM (MTON). Both are using average valuation / no serial lot tracking, and have negative quantities enabled in Item Class.  We released a move transaction with 100 qty, then perform a full reversal of the 100 qty by releasing negative move transactions with -1 qty, -50 qty, and -49 qty. We noticed that the initial incoming 100 qty is treated and converted correctly in both cases. Material in Base UOM Base UOM - Material Issues reversed accurately   However, for non-base UOMs, the reversing Material Issue is incorrect and leaves behind a discrepancy in the WIP

Hi,Is there any option to reopen a closed production order in Acumatica Thanks,Nadeeka

We are currently trying to change the scrap percentage of a component which exists in thousands of parts, and it looks like the Mass Change function in Bills Of Materials work space is limited to only replace one part for another.  I was hoping there would be something that we could make a change to any field that exists in the BOM for a component and be able to reload to Acumatica.

Accidentally closed a production order before all material issues were done.We really need the lot/serial information of this material to be recorded on the production order.Since you can’t re-open a production order, how can these skipped issues be corrected?

We have a client using MRP forecasts in Build 23.104.0027. Demand Time Fence in MRP settings is set to 30 days. MRP Prefefences, Demand Time Fence set to 30 days. According to help, this is “The number of days within which the system excludes forecast records from demand data; the period starts from the day when MRP is performed. Forecasts are ignored by MRP if they have a start date specified on the Forecast (AM202000) form that is earlier than the MRP run date minus the number of days specified in this box.”MRP was regenerated today, Nov 16, 23.  This is the forecast for one part, 14 per month. Since it is mid November, I would expect MRP to skip the Dec forcast demand since it is within 30 days. But, this is the MRP Detail Inquiry for this part. Anyone know how MRP is actually using that Demand Time Fence number, or how to get MRP to skip forecast demand within 30 days?

I would appreciate any ideas on keeping records on consumables for our manufacturing plant.  Should we record the items as normal inventory items but in a seperate warehouse? 

I have read a variety of the posts on here and don't think I saw a clear answer on forecast consumption logic….. I am currently testing to understand the consumption logic before we launch forecasting.  I have created a weekly forecast of 6 pcs/wk for 6 months and then entered sales orders for 5 weeks that are both under and over that weekly qty.  It seems like the logic is to ONLY consume forecast within that week and not backward or forward consume forecast - Is that correct?    Is this a setting we can modify to set the # of weeks/days forward and backward to consume?  Our customer orders are not as consistent as a weekly forecast would assume and this would cause us the need to constantly reforecast or clear individual weeks each week forecast wasn’t matched or potentially overplan our demand when forecasts are not met, which is why consumption logic is often an MRP setting.   

We include within the BOM an Outside service process where the cost is billed on PO as not stock item. Is there a way to included the cost from non-stock items with the BOM and Production Order.

We have a client that has multiple production lines that they can choose from to perform the same operation. I am trying to use APS to automatically fill the capacity of these lines. As of yet I have not found a suitable solution to achieve this. Does anybody have some advice here?  

Good day, I am trying to delete a Non-Stock Item from several BOMs, but the mapping that I have is giving me an error “Field: Operation ID, Value: 0020, Error: An attempt was made to add a duplicate entry.”, and I have the Line Number = 0, to not create any other lines, just to identify the material that needs to be deleted.Any ideas why this will try to create a record instead of following the mapping to delete the Material?Thank you so much! 

There are two sections in Acumatica I can find Lead Time information. One is under Vendors—Purchase Settings, I can update the Lead Time there. The other one is under Inventory—Stock Item—Vendors, the Lead Time I can’t modify it. Is it possible to add function of edit the Lead Time under the Stock Item so I can record Lead Time for a particular item? 

Change BOM Attributes QTY Required from 2 to 3 decimals.I know this is done in the ‘Companies’ section ‘Quantity Decimal Places’ However, this changes multiple fieldsIf we are looking to change only the ‘QTY Required’ in BOMS field, and not Machine Units, Run Units, etc. Is this possible? If not, are there any other units I’m missing in my list to determine impact? (Machine Units, Run Units, QTY Units) Thanks!

Cost Roll History by BOM ID provides cost information by Cost Roll date (although I do not like the fact that it rolls the total cost from subassemblies into the materials category for the finished goods).  Now my question: does anyone know how to view a Multi Level BOM Costed on a specific date.  Sure you can change the date in the report but that only pulls in the correct revision of the BOM ID, it does not retrieve the inventory id cost as of that date.  Am I missing something?  

Dear all,Please help to advise me in this case: I want to produce to many products (main and subproducts) in one product order.For example:I have a rib and then process to 3 products as ribeye, rib fingers, short ribs. To do, we need labor and equipment (fixed asset).So How to build BOM and Production Order Thanks and Best regards, 

An item is configurable if it has a configuration ID in the Item Warehouse Details form.  

Hi All, Am I under the right assumption when we have multiple lines with different preferred suppliers we can leave the supplier ID blank On Purchase process, then on “Create” system should create multiple POs? I vaguely remember this was working before and has stopped in the new versions, or am I just assuming? we use the MYOB advanced version of Acumatica. Thanks for your help Ghazal 

Hi we are attempting to purchase items using MRP for which there is an existing blanket PO.  For some reason it won’t allow us to link the blanket PO to the newly created PO…..so MRP keeps showing the requirement.   Any suggestions?

Hello All,I have a manager that is wanting changes to this form.  They would like to see the detail view as the summary.  She wants to see the lot/serial number breakdown for each inventory part number without having to look up each individual one.  I have tried different filtering/sorting but have not been able to get it to pull in that information on the summary breakdown.Thank you!

Occasionally, we need to change the link of a subassembly production order to a different parent production order. We update the Linked Orders of the Subassembly Production Order. However, this does not update the Parent Production Orders. The Subassembly still shows as a linked Subassembly to the original Parent Production Order, so we cannot use Critical Materials Screen to create a New Linked Subassembly Production Order. Also, the linked Subassembly does not show in the Production Order Supply Documents for the updated Parent Production Order. Are we missing something or are the links between Parent and Child Production orders not being updated from the Linked Orders in the Reference tab? Also, we would expect to be able to allocate the Serialized Item of the linked Subassembly to the Production Order. But, we cannot do this until the Subassembly Production Order is completed. Furthermore, it does not automatically Allocate the Serialized Item from the Linked Subassembly Production

We have just upgraded to 2022 R2, until the upgrade the MRP, when creating the transfer, would round up to the nearest whole number for any stock items that have a UOM of EACH and non divisible.  This wouldn’t happen in the MRP display but would happen when creating a transfer.Now when we try to create the transfer it is not rounding and so we are getting a lot of errors that EACH sales UOM is not divisible for this stock item.  Is there a config that has changed that we can change back?