Manufacturing

On the form “MRP-Display” it is possible to create any order type regardless of the settings of the item.I have a planned purchase order because of the settings which is good. But it is possible to create a Production order based on this planned purchase order without any warning / error / infolog! Is there a set up to activate a plausibility check?  

I have an item that we purchase through MRP and use in manufacturing. This item is in base unit LF and we purchase in Rolls. When purchasing in Rolls, you must buy a full roll - it is not divisible.In the Create PO pop-up, it converts the LF to Roll which is great but it doesn’t seem to round up and so the PO can’t be created.I must be missing something here. How can I get the quantity to round up? It should always be a full number (1,2,3,4,5 rolls, etc.)

We have a few production orders that were closed out before the supervisor approved clock time entries.  I have accounted for the time/cost by doing a project transaction for each project affected however I’m now simply wanting to delete the time entries off the “Approve Clock Entries” screen.  Anyone have a trick to do this?I thought I could simply delete them using the “Delete” button but that doesn’t seem to work.   

The customer is using Multi-Level BOM with Phantom Parts. Cost Rollup is a bit inconsistent. for some subassemblies it’s adding up the cost to Parent Part, for others it's not incorporating. Any pointers?  

Hi Folks, The customer operates in Multi Br. Environment.  As for the labour recovery, labour has been recovered at our one branch i.e. A, however, these are all incorrect as the blast and paint, and FIT UP work centres belong to Branch B. They want to recovery sub-Account to be attributed from Branch BWhat is the best way to achieve this?Where the system picks up labour recovery account.  

Hello,Sometimes operations are completed out of order on a production order.  Assuming the production order’s operations are numbered 10, 20, 30, etc…. I give the following example.If I say I completed operation 40, Acumatica then marks operation 10,20 and 30 as completed as well.  It does this even if they are not marked as backflushed.If I make operation 30 a control point, I will get an error when I try to report a completion on 40.However, I legitimately want to report a completion on 40.  And not have operations 10, 20 or 30 record the completion since I just did operation 40 only.There is no way in Acumatica to report against operations out of order is there?Thanks!Larry

Is there any way to Enter AP Bill and Add Cost to Production Order directly? 

In errors box also not showing error reason that’s why i posted it  

Does anyone have any suggestions on what to check for this problem? I have complete the first level move and it looks like the inventory has been allocated to the production orders but the status of the orders is not changing from “Released” to “In Process”. Any help is appreciated. TIA

My company is about to implement the MRP and forecasting portion of Manufacturing in our environment.  Our end users are very anti-change and anti-technology.  I’m hoping to ease their knee jerk reaction by looking for easy to use guides in a “for dummies” style with images and less technical explanations, but I’m not finding much in either the Acumatica University or elsewhere online.  I think they’d really benefit from a document that is less technical and slightly easier to read.  Any suggestions? 

Hi Everyone,Is it possible to create an invoice even my inventories quantity on hand are set to 0? Our client doesn’t track quantity. I created Sales Order from Bigcommerce to Acumatica successfully but failed when I tried to make an invoice for it.  

Hi, Please can someone advise on how to change default ‘Dispatch Priority’ on Production Order Profile. Currently defaulting to 5.Many thanks

Hi allWe have a scenario where we have e.g. a PO for 1000 of Item A.  As soon as we link 10 of that item on a Production Order to that PO, the remaining qty on the PO (Qty:990) is no longer visible for a SO to link to it.  It also doesn’t appear in the Replenishment routine.  Our replen says to order in 1000 to top back up to max even though we have 990 free on order.This is causing us all sorts of problems with over ordering or splitting lines on the PO.  Has anyone overcome this?  It is something that Acumatica know about but are not planning to change from the communication I’ve had with them.I’d welcome any other suggestions on how we can handle Production Order and a SO needing to link to the same bulk PO.Thanks for reading.

Hi, Have anyone done similar inquiry to view all the critical materials for all the production orders? Would be great if able to share the GI with me, or assist me in creating the GI. Thanks!

Is there a way for the Daily Demand Forecast calculation within the replenishment parameters to consider production demand?We are looking to use replenishment feature for the material that goes into an order, but looks like it ignores production demand and only considers items included on a completed Sales Order. Which would be our finished good and not the material used to make the finished good.   

2 of our prospects need to allow an employee to clock in to multiple jobs at once. Ex: 3 production orders have a paint work centre and the company wants to track time for each of the jobs although they are all done at once by the same employee. Same issue for a company that uses a plasma cutter to cut parts for multiple production orders in one pass.I know we can’t clock in to multiple jobs and dilute time to each order but is there any way to combine the tasks?If I can at least combine the jobs I can calculate percentage of time dedicated to each work order using square inches to be painted or inches cut. Thank you.

My company is wanting to use Acumatica for forecasting.  I have read several topics that I can find on this subject but haven’t found anything helpful yet.  We are wanting to be able to put in a yearly forecast for each month.  Some months will not be the same as others;  example Jan. -25, Feb - 30, March =100 and so on.  Is Acumatica able to do this kind of forecasting?  I am new to Acumatica and have only usesd APO in the past..  I can only find where you enter 1 qty for the part code and it doesn’t appear to be taking what is in WIP or safety stock into consideration.  

Users most often ask why was a planned order created or not created or an exception message not generated or not generated.  The Detail Inquiry would be an ideal side panel for both of these screens.  And toss in the MRP Requirements by Item if desired.

Hello,We purchase material from Vendor A but it is never physically received.It is drop shipped to another vendor for service.  Vendor B.I am creating a 1 operation BOM with the purchased material and the service non-stock item.I see a check box for “Drop Shipped to Vendor”.However, I am not finding much documentation on it’s use.This box certainly seems applicable to this scenario, but I am unsure how it is used.Can anyone offer insight? 

 When you add material to a BOM it will default the material line description to the then-current description from the stock item.(we leave it in our process) If that stock item’s description is subsequently updated it does NOT change the description on the BOM. While I understand why this is (the BOM description is technically a unique description of that stock item on that BOM, not a reference back to the stock item’s description) Is there a simple way to “refresh the BOM descriptions from the current stock item descriptions”? Thanks! -Matt

Say production ticket AM01 has two 2 ops, 10 and 20.. labor A  on his clock entry put in finish 5 pieces, and supervisor release the labor ticket.. therefor RM and overhead and labor all posted to GL.one day later, it turns out that A actually only finish 4 pieces instead of 5 in op 10how to correct this?Z

We are currently using lotted stock items for managing items that are similar in nature (custom doors), but will have ranges of dimensions (height, width, depth), in addition to style, species, etc (attributes which have a finite range of options). Looking at using matrix item functionality, and while I can see how this can be used for managing hundreds or potentially thousands of SKUs, not sure it will work with dimension ranges (i.e. door width can be anywhere from 5” through to 30” in increments of 1/8”).  When multiplying out the matrix, it becomes very large; looking to understand best practices for managing SKUs of this type.  Has anyone used matrix items (for handling attributes with a finite set of options) in combination with making them lotted to handle the very large number of dimensional range options possible? Alternatively, is there any way to create SKUs dynamically on the fly for the range of dimensions supported (i.e. if door (style X, species Y, colour Z, width 18”, h

We have production orders with lotted items that we purchase through Critical Materials. (We have backflush off for materials) Once the item arrives, it is automatically lot-allocated on the Production Detail. When I go to release the materials for this order, why does the allocated lot not populate by default? Our teams are needing to return to the Production Detail to know the lot when releasing.  

Have a scenario where we need to use a non stock item on a BOM for estimating but do not want to have it appear on production order.  Is there a way to do this out of the box without manually deleting?

I added replenishment to a handful of codes.  When MRP ran this week it is now showing replenishment class for purchase and subcontracting.  My company hasn’t used Acumatica before for replenishment and we are trying to get this implemented.  I checked stock items, item class and Item warehouse details and all 3 of those say replenishment class is purchased.  Is there another place that would need to be changed?  I am not wanting anything to show up for subcontracting replenishment class.