Manufacturing

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.

We have a production order with an operation for service.  The operation contains a non-stock item for the service.When I click “create purchase order” I get this error. Here is the non-stock service on the operation 

Status of scanned material moves is "Balanced", we want them to be "Released" so we don’t have to go in and release these manually.Any suggestions? Thanks! 

Hi All,When I create a Material Transaction for a Production Order type that has the following settings, all materials in the system still show up, yet I just get an error. Is there some setting in the system that gets rid of all materials in the Selection Box that are not on the Production Order BOM?It seems just odd especially when the Production Ticket is not being utilized as a source of what material was used.Any suggestions or just not possible?Production Order Type settings:   View in Materials Transaction:  

Could some one know how to schedule Regenerate MRP daily (every 7:00pm), I have done the schedule setting but is not working.  

Any one ever convert the [AMProdOper.RunUnitTime]  into minutes for a GI? 

Hello,We have a quote with material on the operations.  We want to update all of the material costs used on the quote with the current material’s costs.  There does not seem to be a button or anything that says “update costs” or “refresh costs”.  It seems the only option is to manually research the current costs and manually enter them, or delete the material and re-add it to the quote. Am I missing something?  (Probably a big red button in the middle of the screen I am not seeing!) 

Is there anyway when setting parameters for ROP to NOT include production orders?  For purchased component parts, I do not want the calculation to include production orders as that qty should be “allocated” to that production order, therefore shouldn’t count as available inventory.

Hi I have a GI with one sort order (due date).  When adding to a dashboard as a data table widget and setting filters, it does not sort as per the GI.  Any suggestions? 

Hello!  im wondering where I need to mark within Acumatica to not include our expired material as available in the MRP? I am sure its a simple check mark, but I have not been able to find it.

Hi  I would like to automatically print the production ticket when production orders are released. I was wondering if I could do something like business event. Has anyone done anything like this before?  Thanks Matt

Is there functionality that allows for paperless traveler in Acumatica?

Hello,MRP is not using the promised date on the PO’s line item.It is using the date in the top summary area.Here is the PO.  The line item promised dates are much farther out than 10/31/22.Here is what MRP shows in the detail inquiry.  It is using the 10/31 date from the image above.We have confirmed changing the header date changes the date on the detail inquiry. 

Is there a way to allocate multiple Sales Orders to a single Production Order?  I have a client that is in a back order status for items with production orders in process.  They need a way to allocation what is being produced to the Sales Orders so they don’t get shipped to the wrong customer.  The production order is for 10 units while the Sales Orders are typically only for 1 or 2 units.

What is the best way to take inventory to 0 when trying to change your costing method on many items? Trying to do it via adjustments is a little difficult since you have to match qty left on hand by receipts. My thought is I would be able to do this via Inventory > Issues  Thanks for any help