Manufacturing

Are there any built in or custom Dashboards for Engineering Change Order / Request ?

Scenario:Configuration ID has Features and Options within the Features. The Options have subassembly Inventory IDs with BOMs. These BOMs have Operation Work Centers. Each of these Work Centers has a material list of items that need to go to that Work Center. The Work Centers in this BOM match the Work Centers in the Configuration ID BOM ID. These materials, for the most part, are all stocked, finished goods. The materials within these Work Centers, should be rolled up/added to the Work Centers of the Configuration ID BOM ID. When using Phantom routing “Exclude” it ignores the operation Work Centers of the subassembly BOM and adds the material to the Operation ID of the Feature Option. This, adds the materials to the WRONG Work Center. When using Phantom routing “After” it adds the operation Work Centers of the subassembly BOM and adds DUPLICATE Work Centers for each Work Center of each Option BOM selected. I assume that “Before” will do the same, but add the Operation Work Center, as a

We would find it very helpful to be able to add a subassembly to Production Details, mark as phantom, and upon saving, the materials in the subassembly would be added to Production Details instead of the assembly itself.Use case: we have kits or groups of parts that need to be added to the product order in a certain operation when a customer wants us to customize a trailer a certain way.  These are not true subassemblies that can be built ahead of time with a separate work order.  We actually do not want a separate work order.  Therefore, we would rather have the materials of the subassembly BOM simply added to the product order in a certain operation.  This saves time from having to manually look up the subassembly BOM and add the 10 components manually to the product order.  We could simply add the subassembly, mark phantom, and upon save the 10 components would be added to the product order.Does anyone else out there have a use case for this?  I know certain product configurators wi

Does anyone use CADTALK NEST or NESTLink to integrate their nesting program with Acumatica? 

Looking for insight/opinions on scanners/tools to use the Mobile App on my production floor.  What scanners have you used?  Are there options out there for integration of the scanner to have the Acumatica Mobile app directly on the scanner?  Traps and pitfalls setting up the system and using the mobile app for transfers? My use case is to have material handlers stocking and pulling inventory from specific locations to different specific locations.  Looking for what has worked best for other companies.  I will have forklift drivers and pallet jack operators making the transfers, so I need something rugged and user friendly.

I have a production order and done a material release transaction. In the even I want to return part of the materials before completing the order how best can I do this in Acumatica?

Hello,We have a Sales Order(#1) with a linked production order.  We have QTY in stock and wish to ship against another sales order(#2).  We removed the linkage between the SO(#1) and the production order.  However, when we look at the Inventory Allocation details screen, it still shows the QTY is allocated to this Sales order(#1) with allocation type “SO Allocated”.We were hoping breaking the linkage to the production order would remove the allocation.How do we eliminate the allocation so we can ship against the other Sales Order(#2)?

How system takes promise date for planned production orders in MRP Detail Inquiry. I would like to know in three different constraintFinishes on Starts on User Entry We take for an assumption 6 working days as manufacturing lead time. How system takes promise date for all the three scenarios. 

Has anyone had success in putting the clock entry as a side panel on the work center dispatch generic inquiry?  My client wants to use it and have the ability to pick an employee from the lookup on the clock entry, but it seems to only work if you use the CURRENT USER button.Any ideas would be appreciated

We have an issue where our team processed a production Move transaction for the incorrect qty. Finished goods is now overstated and raw/pack understated. What is the best way to return and deconstruct some of that product to reduce our FG and increase the Raw/Packs?

Has anyone tried to concatenate a barcode for the Scan Move form?  For example, I would like to concatenate Production Nbr & Operation & Quantity into one bar code.  I attempted to modify the Production Ticket with Barcode and attemped these codes for starters: =[AMProdItem.ProdOrdID]+'<CR>'+[AMProdOper.OperationCD]=[AMProdItem.ProdOrdID]+'Chr(13)'+[AMProdOper.OperationCD]=[AMProdItem.ProdOrdID]+'Chr(19)'+[AMProdOper.OperationCD]=[AMProdItem.ProdOrdID]+’\n’+[AMProdOper.OperationCD]=[AMProdItem.ProdOrdID]+’\r’+’\n’+[AMProdOper.OperationCD] I obviously don’t know what I’m doing trying to code the carriage return / pause/break / line feed to make it work with the Scan Move form.  The codes above do combine it into one barcode, but the issue is whether I can code something into the barcode that pauses for a second while the Scan Move form moves on to the next prompt. 

We are a manufacturing facility and are looking for input from other manufacturers on what you find works best for you, as far as being able to tell what materials we need to fulfill orders, whether it be PO’s to order Raw Material or Work Orders to build inventory in-house.We have tried Critical Materials and MRP. Critical Materials doesn’t seem to look at the whole picture, when we enter a WO #, the system seems to only see if you have enough materials to build that one WO.  When we look at MRP, we see a whole other story of what items need to be ordered or built.Keep in mind, we also need to be able to link Parent Item WO’s with Children Item WO’s.I look forward to seeing what my fellow community members have to say about this.

This may be simplicity, but I honestly cannot figure this out. I created and released the below Production Order:And I’m seeing it on the Schedule Board, but it’s not taking up any capacity in the Production Schedule Board. What am I doing wrong? I have the BOM, routing, and calendar all set up 

What is the purpose of Having a Plan order in MRP preference screen? When this is going to use in the MRP process? While creating production order MRP system automatically suggests RO order. 

We are trying to cancel a order and the following error is generated “The status of the production order cannot be changed because it has related transactions that are not released.”  Here is the background on this production: When the production ticket was created the wrong BOM was used.  We corrected the BOM issue No materials were issued and no labor was added. The router was in releases status. Where can I locate this “related transaction that isn’t release as of yet.”?

I have stock in several locations in my warehouse, I want to be able to change the location from which I am pulling stock from within the sales order. Can I do this and how?

This is related to blanket sales orders.  Customer places an order for 500 widgets to be shipped out 50 pcs per month.  Our production process is optimized to make 50 widgets on each production order timed to the desired ship dates.  We can create 10 production orders and then create POs from the 10 production orders, but we get better pricing on the raw materials if we combine the POs and make one bulk purchase. Is there a good way to do this?  We have tried creating a production order for the entire 500 pieces and creating the PO from that Production order, but then we need to create the actual production orders for 50 pieces that the materials will be issued to. It get confusing because the materials are issued to production orders that are not the production order the materials were purchased for.

The customer has a Production Order and configures to Backflush Material and Labour. I discovered that when the customer uses Create Move, the system uses the Branch with WIP and Recovery Accounts. (Basically, driven by the User and Current Logged-in Branch).  Is there any way to override Branch Selection for GL Posting from the Work Centre in (BOM).Thanks for your quick pointers  

Error when trying to release production order when using parent item lot on completion selection. 

Ideally, making an MRP forecast dependent makes sales orders “chip away” at the total forecast number, right? If this is the case, let’s say this month, I have a forecast of 200 cases. I just shipped 20 cases. This should make the remaining forecast 180 cases. Why would the forecast stay at 200? I feel like I’m missing something. Thanks in advance for any help!

There are certain inventory items that we “manufacture” into kits- large quantity items that get broken down into smaller items.  However we need to be able to list a different cost for the new item, and incorporate a labor cost per item in the kit.  How can we do this?  Let me give an example of what we’re trying to do with a generic setup:Bulk Item A- cost $1/lbKit Item B- cost $2.50/lb, container for Item B $2 per kitLabor for 1 Kit $5

I am having a difficult time recording production waste from a raw material input. In a BOM I have configured, it takes 3lbs of an item for a yield of 1.95lbs. I set this up in the BOM material line item indicating that 1.95lbs are required with a scrap factor of 0.538462 so that a total of 3lbs is removed from inventory. I set up a production reason code and in the Work Center and BOM I set scrap action to Write Off. The raw material is a lot tracked item, so I issue the material and I see 3lbs removed from inventory and go into WIP. When I perform the move transaction, the cost of 3lbs is moved into inventory when only 1.95lbs should be in inventory with 1.05lbs written off. I have also tried changing the settings to quarantine and set a scrap warehouse and location (set up in the order type and stock item (but I cannot get that to work wither. This is not the produced product that is waste...it is one of the input materials so I cannot specify a scrap amount on the move transaction

We have two warehouses where we manufacture; East & West. Most of our production (>80%) occurs in the West facility. We purchase most of our items to West and will transfer to East as needed (however there are still scenarios where we purchase directly to East. We have set up re-order points in the West facility for many items that we typically hold in stock. We have encountered the following situation: Item X has the following inventory balance: East - 5250 units West - 0 units  This item has been set up with a re-order point in the West facility at 5,000. However, since the total of both warehouses is above this re-order point, we are not being triggered to purchase in MRP. Additionally, since East has been set up to receive transfers from West (not the other way around), we are not being triggered to transfer from East to West. Is this a normal scenario? How do we ensure, through MRP, that we purchase at our re-order point within West facility? Are we able to set the supply

Is there any way to Cancel the Closed Production Order. If we are using Disassembly option, Will it reverse the Labor and other components in that particular Production Order.

in one tenant/company we are not seeing forecast showing in MRP Demand. Has anyone had this happen or can suggest troubleshooting to resolve this issue?