Manufacturing

Is there no approval mapping in the production order module?We want to add approval mapping and assignment to production orders for certain transaction type, but there is not approval tab in the production order settings.

I am trying to disassemble some serialized items and wanted to know if tying the disassembly to the production order would help overcome this hurdle? If so, then how do I tie them together? TIA!

If you look at this screenshot from a BOM, only after exposing the Operation DB ID, could I tell why I completed labor at Work Center 475, why it created an Inventory Receipt and completed a Production Order. Thanks to Auditing, I could see that even though the grid sorted by Operation ID, Acumatica thinks Operation 15 in Work Center 910 is the last step in the Production Order. The last two steps are still not Completed, the status is released, the first 4 steps are.It created an issue for the obvious reasons. I would say that Acumatica is working as designed as when the last step is completed from a labor standpoint, it will create the Inventory Receipt. We completed Operation 20 in Work Center 475 and it completed all of the steps prior to. But Labor is completing previous operations in Work Center Order, yet the Labor calculation to move to Inventory Receipt is using the Operation DB ID, so there is a level of inconsistency going on here.Thoughts?

Im trying to loop through each line of my grid from a checkbox (Auto Assemble Kits) in the main document header to enable/disable all rows of my grid with custom int field usrAutoBuildReq (also check if line IsAKit). Again spent half a day on this and strange behaviours at best?...    protected void SOOrder_RowUpdated(PXCache cache, PXRowUpdatedEventArgs e) { var row = (SOOrder)e.Row; if (row != null) { foreach (SOLine line in Base.Transactions.Select()) { SOLineExt soLineExt = line.GetExtension<SOLineExt>(); //if IsKit then Enable custom field usrAutoBuildReq } } } 

Am I missing something when I’m scanning materials to a production order? The workflow for using a scanner has been (in other modules) you scan your location, item, then you get this fun kind of conditional branch:You can set the qty, scan a different item, or scan a new location.When scanning in a production order, once I’ve scanned an item, I am forced into one of two paths: Set Qty or Scan Production ID.Why am I not allowed to scan another item, or another location for another item in the same Operation in the same Production ID?Instead of making nice loops, I’m forced to scan:Production ID OP ID Location Item Set Qty Confirm Form or repeat from Step 1.I want to repeat from Step 4 (or 3 as needed). Is this something I need to configure? Seems weird to keep feeding the system “header info” when it already has it. Sure, I can see issuing material to multiple Production Orders, but that shouldn’t be a forced thing on the end-users. In the system I’m using they will NEVER issue to multi

What is the best practice when it comes to Inventory Replenishments versus MRP. In what cases does it make sense to utilize IN replenishments and in what cases does it make more sense to use MRP?If I am implementing MRP for a client, then should I even utilize IN replenishments or utilize MPR Only?From my understanding, it sees I should use IN Replenishments for items that have nothing to do with a BOM. For any item (FS, Sub Assembly, Raw Material) that’s included in a BOM, it seems that MRP is better suited for such stock-items. Wondering how other consultants approach this.  

Mobile app and Manufacturing - Is there a way to make Move transactions against Production Orders inside of the Mobile App?  If so, any direction on which settings might need to be changed to pull this off?

I was hoping someone may have some insight to this question.  I am coming up with a large WIP variance in our Production Orders, and are thinking Phantom BOMs might be the cause. At the parent level, we backflush material and labor.  We also exclude the Phantom, thus allowing us to bypass the move in the production order. At the BOM for the phantom, we have run rates as if we were going to make a Production Order and backflush labor and material. Is the WIP variance related to excluding  the phantom and thus not capturing the labor?

Looking for help in modifying standard Acumatica forms such as the sales order and sales invoice to include all of the product configurator results data.  For those using the product configurator, have you modified your forms?  There are instructions on Acumatica Help for adding the data, along with a pdf copy of what it should look like, we would like help in doing this for our client.Please reach out if you would be able to assist. Thanks  

Need help w/ a work around, w/ the MRP Detail Inquiry and demand. My company purchases components for BOMS (assembled in the US at our facility) from China. 180 day lead timeWhen running MRP, i would like it to tell me what i need to order today, to satisfy demand from 180 days to 210 days from now.I understand that we will forecast out 7+ months, which we do.The issue we are having a hard time working around is that the MRP, from our forecast, displays the demand for the assemblies and wants us to create production orders. The problem is, we do not assemble ahead of time, we create those production orders upon receipt of order from our customers. So i can’t create the production orders MRP is wanted me to create based off the forecast, thus it is not showing a demand for those components that i would need to buy from China. ExampleComponent A (180 leadtime from China), we maybe sell 10 a month of this component but w/in BOM X, BOM Y, and BOM Z we can use up 600 of Component A. in thos

We are adding a new item to a product.  This is not a replacement of an existing item.  How can we add this one item to multiple BOM’s (roughly 120 BOMs) without having to go into each BOM to add that item?

Afternoon everyone,  I’ve run into an interesting scenario where a manufacturer will use the quarantine scrap action if there is any question the item may be damaged, then a QA process occurs and sometimes the item is deemed to be fine and can be moved back into finished goods.  The easy solution was to do an inventory transfer out of the quarantine scrap location into the finished goods location which works, but the client needs the qty scrapped value on the production order to update: So I started trying to do negative amounts on the scrap line of the move transaction:This seems to work from a financials standpoint (clears out the scrap expense entry) but it does not effect the inventory qty located in my default scrap location.  All material is being backflushed in this scenario.  Any help appreciated, 

How to create MRP type Shipment?

2022R1: The numbering sequence for production orders is set to manual numbering. A sales order is created for the item to be manufactured.  A production order is manually created for the the item (since you can’t create a production order from the sales order, or use the “Create Production Orders” process when the numbering sequence is set to Manual).  The production order status is PLANNED, the sales order status is OPEN.When I go to the Production Order Maintenance>Reference tab and click on “Link Sales Order”, the sales order is not found, and therefore can’t be linked.When I go to the Sales Order and click “Link Prod Order”, the Production Order is listed, but the checkbox will not remain selected - to clarify, after the checkbox is clicked, it is automatically cleared during processing.Is there a way to make this link when manual numbering is set for production orders? 

Good afternoon all,Usually, when negative Moves are created, corresponding negative Material Issues are correctly created for backflushed Stock Items. Otherwise, the WIP will be overinflated when Material is re-backflushed.However, this does not appear to happen for backflushed Non-Stock items.Is there a way to enable backflushed Non-Stock items to generate negative Material issues similar to Stock Items?Repeatedly creating -1, +1, -1, +1 quantity moves at the same operation with one backflushed Stock Item (cost 573.2) and one backflushed Non-Stock Item (cost 3,700).Each -1 / +1 move is correctly reversing and reissuing the Stock Item cost, but not the Non-Stock cost, causing additional 3,700 cost to be entered into WIP each time. 

On Scan Material screen, the system requires the user to scan:Order Type - Optional Prod Order Number Operation WH  - Optional Location Inventory IDOnce the Inventory ID is scanned, the Scan Material screen resets to “scan the order type” prompt. This means if a user needs to issue multiple stock items to the same operation, they need to go through 3 scans again before they arrive to the scan inventory ID prompt. Is there a better way to bulk scan multiple stock items IDs for the given operation?

Acumatica’s Engineering Change Module does not tie together multiple BOM changes into one Engineering Change Order.  Has anyone out there created a customization that does this?  We frequently have Engineering Change Requests that impact multiple BOMs, and we want to roll out those changes all at once.Also wondered if anyone has developed reports that could pull audit history into these ECOs and show all of the changes for all the BOMs included in the ECO.

My client manufactures stock items with different container sizes. They have stock items listed as shown below:WG36-BulkWG36-264GAWG36-317GAThere are times they need to do a repack from Bulk to 264GA and need to allocate labor and overhead costs. If we use the BOM for the stock items, it includes the component parts needed to produce the item. In this case, we will not need the standard components as we will issue WG36-Bulk as the component. Is there an easier way than deleting all the components and adding this one item with the labor and overhead added? Somone suggested an Inventory Kit Assembly but I really want to tie this to a production order from a sales order. Looking forward to the feedback,Thanks, Jim

It looks like I should be able to do this with AMClockItem and AMClockTrans but has anyone done this? We want to have a status screen for production that shows all production orders that currently have an employee clocked in and show the operation(s) that are clocked in as well as the elapsed time it has been clocked in.

Trying to add lot serial cost data into a GI, and would like to use the following table (believe it is called a projection table) - INLotSerialCostStatus.Can’t seem to find this table in the DB from Tables section of the GI (found it through the DAC) and believe it is a ‘projection table’ or more of a view).  Is there a way to access this data within the GIs themselves?

Hi everyone, One of our clients upgraded within our implementation process to 2022R2.They will be a heavy user of the Manufacturing suite.We imported some sample Bill of Materials for Training purposes and realized that the Order on the Visual BOM follows some other logic than the Engineering Workbench. The Engineering Workbench shows the 1:1 replica of the BOM in terms of Operations and Materials.The Visual BOM seems to take the BOM ID from the nested BOM into consideration. It mixes the order of Materials up completely. Is anybody aware of the Logic behind it?The User is trained to consider the order of Materials when creating the BOM. It is easy to change through the Engineering Workbench, but once again the Visual BOM seems to have a different Ordering Sequence for that.Did anybody experience similar things before or knows why the two screens use different Ordering sequences? Thank you!

We are trying to find a report that breaks out the Labor and Overhead from our unit cost in the lower level of our BOMs. This is something we had in our previous system and was used for multiple entries and analysis in Finance. Here is Acumatica’s version. There is columns for Material, Labor and Overhead. Is there a way to show these on the lower levels of the BOMs.  Here is the report from our old system where is breaks out the labor and overhead for lower level assemblies. Thank you 

Currently the functionality in Production Order Details screen will allow you to put an in process production order on hold and then edit the materials required for operation steps which are completed. There is no indication that you should not do this, other than knowing that you can’t make changes that will actually be utilized in those completed steps. The system lets you make the change and save it (for instance, adding another material to the list). You can then remove the hold and continue processing the production order, however the change you made does not get utilized. You can see that the quantity required is in that operation, but the quantity used is 0.Some manufacturers, particularly those who make custom product, may find themselves in the position of making changes during the assembly process between the time the order is released and when it is completed.While it is understood that only personnel properly trained should be making changes to production orders, currently

I’m trying to set up a BOM with two subcontract operations for different vendors. I’ve created separate non-stock subcon items with the relevant vendor and added the two operations to the BOM. Each operation has the non-stock item on the material line. I’ve added two Work Centres with Outside Process checked.Material type=Subcon, Subcon Source=PurchasingMy problem is that when i go to the Outside processing tab, I can select the Vendor for Operation 1, but this also defines the same Vendor for Operation 2. If I amend Operation 2, it then changes Operation 1.Not sure if I’ve set up incorrectly or if there’s some restriction on selecting multiple subcontract vendors on a BOM. If the latter is the case I could try using a phantom sub-assembly.

We have a manufacturing prospect that produces thermoplastic products using the roto-molding process. This allows one or multiple products to be indexed and manufactured on the same machine. I need help figuring out a way to set up work centers to optimize machine efficiency and production schedule. In a nutshell, the molding machine is on a carousel with 3 indexing arms - one for unloading FG/loading materials, one for heating/molding, and one for cooling. For large-size products, each arm can only handle one unit of one SKU. For medium-size products, each arm can handle 2 units (i.e., a 2 x 1 unit configuration) of the same or 2 different SKUs. For small-size products, each arm can handle up to 10 units (i.e., 2 x 5 units) of the same or 2 different SKUs. Using a dumbbell analogy, I can load 4 x 5lb plates on one side and 2 x 10lb plates on the other. In short, we can have 1 but potentially up to 6 production orders running on the same machine. For a given BOM, each of the 3 operatio