Manufacturing

Hello Manufacturing and Distribution Experts,I am currently working with a customer who is transitioning from SAP to Acumatica. We've encountered a significant difference in how the two systems handle MRP planning suggestions when the required action date (start date) is in the past due to lead times. In SAP's MRP logic, the system typically performs automatic "forward scheduling" when a backward-scheduled start date falls in the past. It automatically moves the suggested order date to the earliest possible current date and issues an exception message. Acumatica, as we understand it, requires a more manual process using exceptions and date updates.I am thinking about  proposing the following workflow to our client, and I'd like the team's validation:Our Proposed Workflow for Past-Due Demands:MRP runs and generates planned order suggestions with dates in the past. The planner uses the Invento

I created a Bill of Material with operation IDs 10, 15, 20, and 30. When I create a production order using this Bill of Material, the operation IDs in the production order appear as 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50.The custom columns maintained in operation ID 15 of the Bill of Material are shown under operation ID 20 in the production order. Additionally, an extra operation ID 50 is created in the production order, even though it does not exist in the Bill of Material, and operation ID 15 is missing from the production order.Similarly, the custom columns maintained in operation ID 30 of the Bill of Material are shown under operation ID 40 in the production order. 

Hello, group,Long time listener, first time caller… We’re just getting started using the Rough Cut Planning and Production Schedule Board Modules and we’re wondering if there is a way to easily export the Production Schedule Boards. It’s old-school, but while we’re learning the tool, I would like each plant to print the Production Schedule Boards out for their Production Teams to review until we are fully comfortable with the tool and can display on a large monitor. We’re on release 2025 R1.  Thanks...

We manufacture items using a Lot/Serial Class configured as follows:We want the system to auto-generate serial numbers by default when these items are finished in a Production Order. However, we want to manually override the auto-generated serial number occasionally, as when we are making R&D items.My Question: If I keep “Auto-Generate Next Number” enabled to handle the majority of our volume, does the system prevent manual editing of the serial number field during the Production receipt/move process? I am looking for a workflow that defaults to the auto-generated sequence but still allows a user to manually override the serial number on specific units before the transaction is released.

I’m trying to use a third-party service (Skyvia) to sync records from Acumatica to our local SQL server.  When I pull data from the Manufacturing endpoint, it cannot do incremental updates because the data does not have either a 'CreatedDateTime' or 'LastModifiedDateTime' column.  Is there a way that I can get this information in the endpoint?

We have a stock item that is primarily manufactured, but can also be purchased / outsourced when required.Since the Item Master allows only one Replenishment Source, we would like to understand how MRP handles order quantities: If MRP generates a Manufacturing Order, does it use the Inventory Planning tab (min / lot size)? If the same item is planned as a Purchase Order, does it use the Vendor tab minimum order quantity? As per my understanding, MRP behavior is driven by the Replenishment Source, and standard MRP does not support planning the same item as both Make and Buy automatically with different order quantities.Please let me know if this understanding is correct or if there is a supported approach.

We are experiencing a workflow issue related to Production Orders in Acumatica Manufacturing and would like clarification on expected system behavior.In our case: A Production Order was marked as Completed After completion, the system still allowed posting additional transactions, including Move transactions However, when attempting to Close the Production Order, we receive the following error: “Select a production order for which transactions are allowed according to the workflow.”We understand that Acumatica may allow late Labor or Material adjustments after an order is marked Completed, but we have not seen clear documentation confirming whether Move transactions are expected or supported after Completed status.Questions:

Hello all,We are documenting our business processes (in Visio swimlane flowcharts) prior to implementing Acumatica modules. The manufacturing module looks like it will work well as is. As a time saver: does anyone have flowcharts already developed that document manufacturing workflow (with standard Acumatica configuration)?Thank you in advance,Gerry

I work in a manufacturing environment that requires production work orders to be split for validations, new tooling runs, qualifications that were not originally planned for.  The problem is that I don’t see the functionality that allows me to split a production order.  The worst part is that we have to link our SO’s to the production orders when created for lot tracing. Every time I get a request for splitting, in order to keep the linking correct, I have to go all the way back to the original Sales Order and make changes, and so on... Reduce the original sales order lineCreate new lines for the split qty’sMark those new lines for productionGenerate new production ordersPrint new production ticketsReduce the production order and print a new ticketWhen shipping, this then creates additional work as now they have several lines instead of 1 line int he sales order.  I was wondering if I missed this functionality or maybe s

Our company utilizes our Quality Assurance team for Supplier Management. Does Acumatica have any Supplier Management functionality with regards to monitoring specific stock items that are on back order with vendors? Also, is there a way to restrict items to only being purchased from specific vendors, or vice versa (vendors can only sell a specific category(ies) of items)?

Hello Experts, i was looking to create a GI to show material planned cost and actuaL cost for production order, i was in doubt that the data which i am looking because values may be calculated value, it may not be stored value. can anyone suggest me your opinion for this.

Some context - We are a high volume production transaction location and we scrap/reject off work orders to either scrap or rework locations. We quarantine scrap to be able to rework it if necessary. At end of month we purge our scrap locations (issue out of system) to record the expense on our P&L. However we seem to have ran into an issue since we went live in 2022 when we do a negative move that is scrap (we call these negative scrap transactions). We do this to try and reverse the move transaction when there is an error/mistake when it was created/posted. Acumatica doesn’t seem to like this very much as it doesn’t correctly reverse the posted transactions, reverse the inventory, or update the Work Order Totals. Every time this happens (a lot) we have manually reverse the inventory back into WIP, post an opposite transaction WIP adjustment to correct Work Order Totals, check to see if the Applied Overheard reversed correctly (Cost transaction), and finally many any

Hello, I generated a Purchase Order for a Production Order from the Critical Materials screen. I can clearly see the demand with the Production Order # listed on the Purchase Order. I wanted to know if there was a way to receive the Purchase Order and directly issue it to the Production order from the receipt screen. In our legacy ERP, we were able to buy directly to Production Order without having to receive it into inventory and then do a material transaction like in Acumatica. I’m looking for some way to lower the amount of steps that it takes to purchase and issue out items to a production order for our team. If you need more context let me know. 

We are in the middle of implementation and I am writing a workflow for issuing Purchase Orders to Outside Process vendors for metal finishing (Ie: Powdercoating, Plating, etc),  however I am not certain that I am totally clear on the correct process. We have setup non-stock items to represent the outside processes.  These have been defined as a service, They have vendor(s) associated with them on the vendors tab and the default price as been set to $1.00.   On the manufactured (stock) item I have defined a BOM and on the operation step for the outside service I have added the Non-Stock item (Powdercoat) to the BOM as a material.  The qty required has been set to the per-piece cost that I was quoted,  the Unit cost remains at $1.00, The material type has been set to “Sub Contract” and the Subcontract Source has been set to “Purchase”.  On the Outside processes tab I have also checked the “Outside Process” box and have selected the preferred vendor for this operation.  

Hello Experts, I am getting stuck in one of the issue how to show all the warehouse qty  for an item in inventory planning display when MRP is run, is there any setup missing i have enabled inventory planning check box for the warehouse location which are there in item, but then after iam unable to get the all warehouse location qty when mrp is run.

Hi Community,Many of our manufacturing clients are ETO shops who are incorporating Project Accounting (or Professional Services) with Manufacturing.  Do to the nature of the ETO manufacturing, the client is often required to recognize revenue using the Percentage of Completion method, per their CPAs.We love that manufacturing and (formally) project accounting are integrated, but from an accounting perspective it feels as though cost accounting for manufacturing and project accounting couldn’t be further apart, and I’m struggling as to the best way to leverage the best of each feature set to achieve the client’s accounting goals.  To illustrate, in manufacturing (and in a full-absorbtion cost accounting paradigm) the costs of each production order are capitalized to WIP Inventory on the balance sheet until the production order is complete.  Upon completion the accumulated manufacturing costs are placed in FG Inventory until the goods are “sold” and “shipped” to t

 We have a project with multiple tasks from initiation to signoff. For this project, we’re creating Production Orders for multiple Finished Goods. Labor Transactions: When labor transactions are created for a production order, they generate a GL transaction that posts to the WIP (Work-in-Progress) account. Upon closing the production, the labor costs move to the Finished Goods (FG) inventory. Shipping/Issuing Finished Goods: When the finished goods are shipped or issued, the costs move to COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) and update the Material account group in the project. Is this flow and my understanding correct? The main challenge I’m facing is tracking the production labor costs that have been reported back to the project, particularly when the

We have a problem in configuring work center. A work center is configured with ‘basis of capacity’ set to crew size, and three shifts are added, each with a different calendar. The calendars are configured with 8 working hours in a day, but the timings are different. When the MRP runs, the action date calculates based on the crew size and calendar in the first row of shifts but we thought it would consider all the shifts. If all the shifts are considered, the action lead time should be reduced to one-third, as the total working hours of the work center are 24 hours.We are not sure why Acumatica considers only the shift details in the first row

When updating the Safety Stock and other settings on the INVENTORY PLANNING tab of a stock item, the new value carries over to all existing item warehouse details records for the item. Shouldn’t it only carry over to whatever the default warehouse is? It seems undesirable for it to update all warehouse detail records because each warehouse could have its own safety stock. This is on 25R1 25.101.0153.5. I understand that when multiple warehouses are available that the planning settings should be updated on the individual item warehouse details records. However, it becomes confusing for users when there may only be 2 warehouses (one ‘Main’ and a secondary back up warehouse). It’s easier to simply update the safety stock on the stock item and have that setting carry over to the warehouse detail record for the default warehouse, rather than also updating the secondary warehouse. Is this expected behavior?

I need to advise the sales team regarding the availability of materials in the multilevel BOMs (Capable to Promise (CTP) multi-level BoM), which may include both Manufacturing and purchasing items at various levels. Any ideas on how to create a GI or even generate a report showing the INSiteStatus.QtyAvail using AMMultiLevelBomData?

Hi  I have been trying to set up CTP with a multi-level BoM and I am having some trouble. Does anyone know if CTP work with multi-level BoMs please? Thanks Matt 

Issue description If a production order was created from the Inventory Planning Display (AM400000) form for a non-lot/serial tracked item or a lot/serial tracked item with the When Used assignment method, there was a mismatch between the Qty. to Produce in the Summary area and the Quantity column on the Line Details tab on the Production Order Maintenance (AM201500) form (see the following screenshot). On the Inventory Allocation Details (IN402000) form, the system displays incorrect

I’m working with a customer who is setting up a fairly lengthy configurator for their industrial product. He discovered that if he missed an option for one of the features, and then adds it in under the Features form, that it will not pull this new option into the selection set within the maintenance for his configuration. He ends up having to delete the feature, and then add it back in and recreate all the rules associated with that feature. I did see that you can export options and rules, then import them again when you recreate which should help the situation.Has anyone else noticed this, and is there any other way to update the feature without having to remove it from the configuration. I tried using the refresh tool and that didn’t appear to pull in the new option. Thanks in advance for any assistance or suggestions.

i have role Admin and have full access rights to report. Report have one parameter: Please help me. All report in system when i selected  is no data availible parameter. I think it's a permissions issue. But I also have administrator access and access control for report.

When I link an open Purchase Order to a Production Order using the PO Link button, the PO and Line do not show on the outside process tab. Does that tab only show the PO when you create the PO from the Production Order?