Manufacturing

Hi All,I am looking for some guidance on timing for specific BOM items and other data to have it all feed into MRP appropriately to generate a production schedule. If anyone has experience with this and wants to give input on where to put different data points in or where to pull a schedule from, I am more than happy to have conversations about the process and best practices with using Acumatica. I am in the beginning of setting up the process and want to make sure this happens correctly the first time (or as close as I can get to correctly). Thanks!

Has anyone been able to create an inquiry that will allow you to see your expected quantity on hand by allocation date by WO? I’m essentially wanting to build a critical material but have it look at the entire demand rather than just that WO.

Hi All, Our client is currently looking for a digital Version of a Pick/Staging List.Basically, they stage Items once the Production Job is planned, yet some items have not arrived at the Warehouse yet.They would need a virtual mechanism to mark an Item as Staged/kitted for a Production Order and track which items are still missing. I would think they are not the only ones requesting a process for this.Any experiences or ideas out here on how to accomplish this?(Preferably without heavy Customization, but if needed we can explore that) Thank you in advance!

Hi, We are new to Acumatica and operate a Cow Hide processing plant. During the production process there is leftover flesh that accumulates in our warehouse.  We typically send the excess to a nearby plant, however, that plant is not accepting the material.  This byproduct is left over "trimmings"  from the production process and there will not be a PO to a vendor because it is a waste product of the hides we purchased from vendor(s). I created a Non Stock item, that requires a shipment. The issue is in the GL Accounts section.  My best guess is that I should leave the PO Accrual Account empty or connected to the expense account of the warehouse.  Please let me know if there is a actual  solution.  

We are new to Acumatica and I am trying to get my head around whether certain items should be classified as stock or non-stock. What in my mind are stock items:The main manufacturing area of the business involves manufacturing mechanical / electronic products - usually from a series of subassemblies, each subassembly having it’s own BOM. The components are stored in a stock room in bins. They will then be sold and leave the system when a sales order is shipped. What I’m not sure about:Another area of the business runs courses to train people in virtual production. For the purposes of running the courses, some specialist equipment is purchased (e.g. cameras, tripods, batteries, switchers, recorders etc). We want to know/track what equipment we have, (and most of these items would be purchased via a PO which goes through an approval process), but the items are used in house to deliver the hands on courses - rather then getting sold directly to customers/sitting in a warehouse. Similarly,

We are wanting to use Acumatica’s ROP capability for our purchasing group.  They are wanting to use EOQ function, so every time we need to order from our vendor it will suggest the EOQ quantity to order.  I have watched some youtube videos and I believe I have the settings in stock items set correctly but still lumping the entire qty on 1 PO instead of multiple.  Is there a way in Acumatica do this? Example - My EOQ is 4032 but my PO is 22,727.  If we want 6 PO’s with the amount to be 4032 each?

Our client currently treats all Subassemblies as one Production Order, yet going forward they want to have more visibility and scheduling capabilities for each Subprocess and Assembly.So we run into the challenge of Data Conversion for open Production Orders right now & on how to convert one Parent Job to multiple Subassemblies in a clean way. Basically, Product X contains Subassembly A, B, C and D. Potentially Subassembly A consists of Subassembly E and F.This is currently treated as one Make-to-Order Production order.Going forward they want to have multiple Jobs for A,B,C,D,E and F that roll up into the final Assembly Job of Product X. (Product X and all Subassemblies have Bill of Materials behind them). Has anyone encountered a similar case within the implementation?We have some ideas with their Pros and Cons but want to see what is already proven or if other ideas are out there.  

My production team has requested a daily production report/inquiry where they can compare production cost and sales price.Is there a way to link a Production Order cost and Sales Price?Some but not all of our Productions Orders are linked to a sales order, so I wasn’t sure if this was doable. 

Hi Everyone,  From what I’ve seen MRP can do it should be able to take a sales order or forecast of a finished good, create a PL type production order when regenerating MRP so that the component demand of that finished good shows up in MRP display.  I can not seem to get the system to do this. I’ve only been able to get MRP display to show component demand after creating production orders manually through MRP Display for the finished goods, then the components show up on the display.  I have default BOMs set to the finished goods stock item profile and the replenishment source is set to manufacture. This is from the MRP Acumatica sheet. This makes me think the regen process should create the planning orders for your demand which would then show component level demand so that you can purchase for production orders that will happen far in the future. Then every time you regen MRP it should wipe out all PL order types and recreate new ones according to the current demand/supply. Does this

Hello:We updated to Acumatica 2022 R2, and before i can create a WO without problem.Now The system shows me next message error: AM Error: The following error occurred when the system tried to copy the BOM: Error: An error occurred during processing of the field Location value MTYP2C     Error: Location 'MTYP2C    ' cannot be found in the system. BEST REGARDS

Is anybody aware of any way to calculate Overtime automatically? Having multiple Shifts and Calendars on the Work Center indicating this, does not work at all.On the Clock Entry the User needs to specify a Shift rather than the System identifying this Shift for the User based on the Calendar and current Time. From my findings, the User needs to Clock out at 5pm for example and clock in right after to the OT Shift. This is unusable when the system doesn’t detect this.There seems to be too much manual effort involved in getting Overtime costs right onto the Production order and also flowing towards Time Cards. It will all be presented as Regular time. Any ideas or solutions?

Hello,Does anyone have an experience of how to manage R&D items (i.e. components purchased for prototypes) in Acumatica, in the case of a manufacturing company with a very active R&D department? If we create non-stock items for R&D purchases (which seems correct, since they are an expense), what would we do when an item moves from the R&D phase and into production - if the item is already in the system as a non-stock item?It is my understanding that it isn’t  currently possible to convert a non-stock item into a stock item in the manufacturing edition of Acumatica?Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!           

In a Manufacturing environment it can be helpful to have both Parent and Child Orders available for a reference.Where would I find the Child Order designation within Acumatica?Under references there is only the Parent Order available, yet when this is my Parent Order and I want to see the connected Subassemblies, is there way natively to see this?The anticipated Use Case in the end is to have this information printed onto the Production Ticket so the Operator knows where to get the Material from if it is physically not in the designated Locations.Either way, a View where I can see all the Child Orders to a Parent Order would be great.

Has anyone dealt with the following type of outsourced manufacturing and if so, how did you or how would you handle it in Acumatiça?Company purchases the primary raw material in volume and drop ships it to the outsourced manufaturing vendor (treated as a warehouse in Acumatica).  When production orders are needed from that outsourced vendor, the outsourced vendor mixes additional raw materials not owned by the company with the raw material owned by the company and then packages the product (more raw materials) before shipping to the company and invoicing the company for those fully packaged items without the cost of the primary raw material. At this point, the product is coming into the system without the cost of the raw material. I suppose that we could have the items coming from the outsourced vendor be treated as a component item for a production order after the item arrives fully packaged into the warehouse. The needed raw material could then be transferred from the vendor warehous

I ran MRP but I can only see demand for production orders that are in “in process” status.  If I look at Inventory → Inventory Allocation Details I can see “Production Demand” which are production orders that are in process.  I can also see “Production Demand Prepared” which are production orders that are in the planned status.  How can see see what is in demand (production orders in process) and see all production orders in “planned status” in MRP

Is there any possibility to schedule operations not only by the restrictions of capacities and constraint dates but in addition by attributes?Use cases:- Food production: Producing food with and without nuts. Workload planned for one week on the same resource (mixer). User wants to have a schedule for producing first the items without nuts in BOM and only after that the items with nuts to make sure that the "nut-free" products are not polluted by rest of nuts. Mixer will be cleaned only at the end of the week.- paint production: sequece should be from light to dark on one and the same machine.- other industries: tool optimization for reducing the set up time for preparing the machines for the different products.

Our production process involves purchasing some items directly from the production order through Critical Materials in order to maintain the link upon receipt and ultimately the release/issuance of materials.However, there exists times where some of these items will arrive late (beyond our production end date). In these cases, we will still complete and close the production order (& ship out the order) despite not receiving certain items. This order is considered short shipped, as we shipped the order without certain items.These missing items are then added to a Sales Order and shipped and installed at the client’s site at a future date - once received. We have run into an issue as the goal would be:Once we close the production order, we would like to move the “short shipped” items to a Sales Order and link to the outstanding PO. The issue I’m having is I’m unable to unlink that PO from the now closed production order. As a result, I’m unable to link the PO to the newly created Sal

How i view Deleted Records of BILL of MaterialDear Fellowsif i deleted bill of material BOM000017 how i view this record in aCumaticaERPin GI i click show deleted records but i can  t get any feild ya table for deleted record of bom

Background:Client has bill of material with two operations. Their process is to issue all materials upon release of the production order. They backflush labor however at this time no labor is being capitalized due to $0 cost in the work centers. Client uses the FIFO valuation method. Issue:Upon release of a production order and related material, client creates a move transaction for some of the planned items. For example, if the Production order is for 450 items, the first move transaction may be for 100 items. When they create the move transaction, the material costs to produce 450 items gets allocated to the 100 items in the first move. When the remainder of the items are completed, they are put into inventory at $0. Why doesn’t the system allocate the appropriate cost to the items as they are completed so that each item is costed the same? 

We have customers who use Average cost valuation on their compoenent and raw material inventory valuation.Currently, when a production order is created from a Bill of Material, the average unit cost from the stock item is used as the planned unit cost for these items on the production order.  Our customers would like retain the material unit cost entered on their Bills of Material to the material unit cost on production orders created from the Bill of Material. Is there a configuration that accomplishes this?

Hello the regenerate MRP, show me next message error:   Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'BranchID', table 'AcumaticaDB.dbo.AMRPDetailFP'; column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails. The statement has been terminated.Could you send me any idea what is the error? Best regards

Good Morning, I trying to close production orders by warehouse by automation schedule. here are the conditions. when it runs, it says 0 records, when I know there are records to be closed. Has anyone tried this or can explain what I am doing wrong?I did try process all as well and it also says 0 records.  

Has anyone else had issues with 2022R1 and how Production Orders and MRP relate? We just upgraded to 2022R1 and I am now having issues - wondering if there is a setting that changed that we didn’t catch when testing. Production order is set with a start on date of 2/27/2023. There is a PO for the item needed that is open with a due date of 1/10/2023. MRP is saying we still need to order the items with a Promise Date of 10/10/2022.  I can’t tell where MRP is pulling the 10/10/2022 promise date from. Any ideas? 

Fairly certain this is not a thing, but I wanted to verify.They always create production orders from sales orders.Would like to have the same number as the ID for both documents.So if you have SO12345 and create a production order from it, the production order ID is also 12345. Unless I hear otherwise, I will assume this is not possible as standard functionality.Thanks!

After a production order is closed or completed, can you still issue additional material to the production order?  Can you enter more labor?