Manufacturing

We are just getting started with Acumatica so we have a lot to learn -  Is it possible in acumatica to build a routing that contains both sequential and parallel operations ? 

Team,Has someone done a customization to add formula editor column in product configurator options that allows us to add some useful/additional information on options level? Or is this in current product roadmap?The current Qty Required column is just quantity of component/option that is used mainly for stock consumption/costing but I need additional information such as cutting dimension to tell shop floor people at what exact length and width of material they need to cut, like in the example below. I have tried using formula editor on Attributes but each option in the configurator has different type of information to be added so ideally it’s a column next to each option.  

After clicking Calculate BOM Cost in the dialog box its not showing the cost value. 

Hi Team,Please let me know, how to add “Approval Process” on Bill of Material screen.I tried to follow the below link, but it is for customized screen.https://www.acumatica.com/blog/implementing-approval-process-on-custom-screens/https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52210880/adding-standard-approvals-to-custom-acumatica-erp-module Appreciate your help, thanks in advance Regards,Ramya

Hello,Except for one specific screen, production orders do not print with barcodes.We want the default to be printed with barcodes.So if you print the production ticket directly from the order, or use “Print Production Orders”, we want it to print with barcodes.  I don’t see anything in preferences about this.Any thoughts? 

Hello,We have multiple warehouses.  All sell/MFG the same products.  We’d prefer not to have a BOM for each warehouse since they are all the same.  However, when I regen MRP after entering a sales order, I get different results if the warehouse on the sales order differs from warehouse on the BOM.Example:Finished product with 4 different materials.Enter a sales order for the finished product using the warehouse on the BOM. Regen MRP MRP Display suggests a production order for the finished product AND purchase suggestions for the materials  (this is the desired behavior)Enter a sales order for the finished product using a warehouse NOT ON THE BOM. Regen MRP MRP Display ONLY suggests a production order for the finished product.  It does NOT suggest anything for the needed materials.I have tried using substitution work centers and see no difference in behavior. Again, I am just trying to avoid having 7 different BOMs for the same finished part just because it is being made in a different

Hi all - I’ve run into a situation I am hoping someone can provide insight / a solution for. We had a production order (RO A) for quantity 4. Welding completed OP ID 10 for quantity 10 (they built 6 over). Assembly processed RO OP ID 20 and 30 for quantity 4 and then RO A was closed. The cost of the 6 extra welded parts were rolled into that of the 4 completed parts. Is there a way to reopen a production order to complete OP ID 20 and 30 for the remaining 6?Any advice is appreciated - thanks! 

Can anyone tell me how individual production orders can be prioritised (reordered) in planned production orders?I.e. Sales would like to produce individual production orders earlier than planned or place new orders with high priority before other production orders. Is this possible? If so, how?

We produce labels for our subassemblies based on inventory receipts that are generated in the production process. This has worked well for us in the past as we have only ever manufactured in singular large lots based on the production process. Below is an example of a label that produced 936 pieces of wood.However we are now generating multiple lots from singular production orders (EX: 6 lots of 156 pieces) which is causing the lots to pull in as <split>. This is because the lots have been pushed to the line details tab as there are multiple for a single line. Please see example below.Now the barcodes will not generate on the labels because it pulls directly from the receipt page. There are two possible solutions for this, neither of which I am sure how to execute:If we could specify in the production order that we’d like to generate 6 lots of 156 pieces so that they would appear that way on the on the receipt, then there would be no problem. However, I have found nothing that sp

Good morning MFG Community. I am running 22.108.0024. I am entering and Expiration date on one material on the BOM lets say 9/30/2022. I am adding a new Material to the BOM with an Effective date of 10/1/2022. My assumption would be if a create a production order with due date and start date of 9/15/2022 I should see material A on the production order details because the due date and required date are before 9/30/2022. On the other hand, if I crate a future order today for 10/10/2022. I would expect material A to drop off because of the expiration date of 9/30/2022 and the new item B to be added because of the effective date of 10/1/2022. I can not get this to work. No matter what I do, any future orders still have part A and do not show part B

I want to update the warehouse for a specific material on my BOMS. I created an import scenario with the goal of identifying the BOM id and inserting the warehouse however I keep getting an error. I made sure to uncheck the lines with -1 to prevent a new line from being created. I feel like I am missing a line to allow this to work. Any help is greatly appreciated! 

Hello,I am doing outside processing.I have a production order with the outside service and have created the PO.I go to Vendor Shipments to ship the material to the vendor, but cannot save the shipment.I cannot enter a Shipment ID manually and cannot locate where an autonumber sequence is defined for this.I get this error: 

Hello,I am unable to change the “Subcontract Source” on the material line of a BOM.The material on the line is a non-stock service item.I want to change it to “Purchase” but it is uneditable. 

Hi all,What would be the best method to either:disable inventory SO Allocated allocations from Labor/Move transactions altogether periodically unallocate the above inventory allocations?I understand inventory allocations can be manually altered using the SO Line Details button, but the process is often too labor-intensive when we have hundreds of item plans - several for each daily Labor/Move document - and we just want to consolidate the gross produced quantity as one line for a shipment.Unfortunately, Shipment documents ship each allocation as one line, resulting in hundreds of duplicate inventory ID lines on a Shipment per our Manufacturing-generated allocations. Perhaps some sort of automation method or toggle to free inventory allocations is available?

Hello - How are you managing the life cycle of your part numbers?  We start with an R&D item.  It could be one we make, have made or purchase.  We assign it a part number as R&D, and make revision changes as it’s qualified and perhaps updated.  Finally, we might obsolete the part number.  We would like to track that life cycle of the part within Acumatica and we would like Acumatica to issue the next available part number, instead of tracking all of this in a sub-system.  What are other manufacturers doing within Acumatica to document the life of a part number?  Thank you.

HI- New to Acumatica and adjusting to the lot/serial number setup. Do I need to customize serial numbers to take unique pictures or to have unique conditions, such as used or needs repair condition?  Users need to know if our inventory is new, used or needs repair condition, so how would they see this custom field (or attribute) in their production order picks, or sales order picks or inventory moves?

Is there a way to schedule operations when they should start or end?For example:First operation (start immediately)Second operation (start after 1st operation)Third operation (start in parallel with the 2nd operation)Fourth operation (start after completion of all operations)Case study: Modules are being produced. The process looks as follows: 1st operation: Cut tubes2nd work step: Clean tubes3rd operation: Cut cables4th operation: laying cables and pipesOperations 2 and 3 should be run in parallel.Theoretically, operations 2 and 3 could be created as subassemblies. However, in the case of complicated production orders, it quickly becomes confusing and nested, because there can be a large number of open production orders. Does anyone know how this process can be mapped more simply?

Hello All,I am attempting to create a bill of material to process packaging. The amount of material that we package changes very often, but each finished product still only requires one of each packaging material.For example: One order may call for 20 widgets, and it will require one box and one strap to package it. Another order may call for 18 widgets, but still requires the same one box and one strap for packaging.In creating the bill of material I’d like to make the amount of packaging material fixed and w/o making a plethora of BOMs to cover every potential order I may encounter (there are a lot). I’d like to do this without allocating fractions of material (i.e. divide one box by 20 so the system generates one full box for a order of 20 widgets).It seems like this should be a common occurrence, and I’d expect the system to have a solution for this. Am I missing something? 

How does one tie the Data Entry Settings to the specific Item Class (or to the items within the class) instead of by Production Order Type or as a general setting?  If the Default Order Type is tied to the Item Class, then most of the other Data Entry Settings can be tied to the Item Class by creating a separate Production Order Type for each Item Class, but I don’t know how to set that for an Item Class. 

Hi All,Is there a way to issue a material to a production order other than a material that has been specified in the BOM?Thank you!

We are working with a customer that now needs to bring in material from a client. Example Muffler pipe that needs to be coated with a special surface as the production process.  We have set up a order type CI and bring the product in at no cost from the customer and added it as a material product in the process.  Is there a better way to handle inbound product that is brought in, non inventory, non owned, no value as part of the production process without having to create PO’s or in this case a SO configured as a CI - receipt for customer input. thank you

hi, have anyone face similar issue before? This issue happens randomly. The selected item in MRP Display is different from the create dialog box. If the planner have to process many items, it can easily lead to mistakes. 

Hi allI have setup the BOM same as provide in the Prodcut Configuration Pricing Example.https://help-2022r1.acumatica.com/Help?ScreenId=ShowWiki&pageid=e85d2759-5ecd-4830-b17a-39b7e4446e76 However when i test my configuration it is not correct. It looks like the Pricing on the children is multiplied by the number of operations on the BOM.  Not sure if this an product Issue or system configuration.  

We have two attributes tied to configurations. We would like to display the value of the attribute in the invoiced line item inquiry. The inquiry is working except that there are two records generated for the invoice lines with configurations. I’ve tried various join types and can’t get the inquiry to return one record per invoiced line. Here are snips from the system:Production Order attributes tabConfiguration Entry attributes tabInquiry displaying multiple records for the invoiced line with each attribute separateGI tablesGI relations - configuration results attributesGI Results Grid with formula to display attribute CFGAPIIN as OPT1The inquiry returns the correct number of records if I deactivate the relation to AMConfigResultsAttribute and the related fields in the grid, so I’ve narrowed it down to that part of the inquiry. Any suggestions on how to eliminate the duplicates would be greatly appreciated.Thanks!

We want to come up with a way to receiving inspection without purchasing additional add-on software.By default, our PO receipt comes in with a status of “Hold”.This could work if the user ID that enters the receipt does not have rights to change the status.While assignment maps do allow you to select PO Receipts, status is not one of the criteria you can use for the rule. Has anyone any suggestions on how to keep the user who enters the receipt from being able to take the receipt off of hold?  We want the inspector to take it off of hold. Or any other way to process receiving inspection without buying more software?