Manufacturing

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?

Hi,I need to use 1 generic BOM for probably thousands of Items. these Inventory Items for their production will have slight variations but it would be easier to be managed in Production mainetnance detail. assigning an inventry Item to the BOM as a mandatory field makes it restricted to only that BOM. is there any way around this? I don’t want to use the Configuration because the options are also too many. what would be your suggestion. Thanks For your help in advance. 

I have client that needs to remove items from production to be used for other purposes. For example, they produce 10 widgets and at the move they want to put 8 into inventory and charge 2 to scrap expense account. The client backflushes material and labor.I configured the system as follows:In the related work center, I set the scrap action to Write Off In the Production Order Preferences, I marked the checkbox to Include Scrap in Completions so the order completes since there will be no additional items produced I created a reason code with a usage type Production. The Acumatica help guide says the reason code should be of the type Production Scrap, but this is not an option.When the move transaction is initiated, using the example above, 8 items are completed and put in inventory, but, at a cost of all 10. The reason code field is not editable, and I cannot figure out how it gets populated.Any insight into what I am doing wrong would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

From a production order you can create a PO.  If I purchase material this way it seems that a linkage should have been created from the PO to the production order.  Where can I see that linkage?I don’t see where I can see linked POs on the production order.I don’t see where I can see the linked production order on the PO.Thanks!

The material wizard AM300020 should show me the list of materials to be consumed. From this interface, I will have to take out the materials and create the "Material Management" documents.but nothing is displayed

Hi,Does anyone have an example of a working Production Order Maintenance import scenario?Currently doing an import for the Qty to Produce field - per usual, keys (Order Type, Production Nbr) are committed first, which during manual entry would populate the form with relevant details such as inventory ID, warehouse, etc.However, have not seen it working with this screen in particular.  Import scenario (refer active rows) Error Have tried multiple configurations of commit/hold/etc, but have yet to get any working. Appreciate any help provided.

We have a generic inquiry for Move where we display the AMBatch Total Amount and the INRegister Total Cost. We are currently only using final moves from WIP into Inventory, not from operation to operation.How/When is the AMBatch Total Amount populated?  Why are so many zero?Acumatica Build 22.115.0035Valuation Method: AverageProduction Order Costing Method: EstimatedSee attached snipping of our Move GI 

  Expedite the Engineering to Manufacturing Hand-off with Connected Product Lifecycle ManagementTuesday, December 13, 2022 at 11:00am PT Design for manufacturing (DFM) is a complicated process, and, to make it successful, everyone must be on the same page. But there’s a catch. Many engineers have no access to ERP data because they only work with product lifecycle management (PLM) software. They may also struggle to sync engineering and manufacturing bills of materials (eBOMs and mBOMS) in the ERP system.Acumatica for Arena Native Connector was designed to prevent these headaches. It will help your engineers ensure DFM readiness by giving them:Instant access to items, BOMs, drawings, documents, and entire product records. Real-time data from Acumatica’s robust manufacturing ERP suite. PLM connectivity with Acumatica Cloud ERP to synchronize eBOMs and mBOMs. Automated engineering-to-manufacturing handoffs. Powerful supply chain collaboration features, regulatory compliance safeguards, an

Hi all,I am using Sales Demo data to test Engineering Change Request, and I am facing the error “Error: An error occurred during processing of the field Vendor value AASERVICES Error: Vendor 'AASERVICES' cannot be found in the system. Please verify whether you have proper access rights to this object” when checking on checkbox Outside Process and selecting any Vendor. Currently, I am using Acumatica ERP 2020 R2 Build 20.222.0017.Have you any idea about the error or I missed any configuration?Thanks, in advance.

Hello everyone!I have a problem in the manufacturing moduleHow is a production order received and the finished product inventory updated?thanks

Does anyone have an import template for multi level BOMs.  I have BOMs that have multiple levels and include Outside processing. 2020 R2.

Form “MRP Display”When is the document type Shipment used by the system and when the type Sales Order ?I created two Sales Orders and run MRP. One has the type Shipment, the other one Sales order.