Manufacturing

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?

Hello all, in my local instance (Acumatica 2021 R2 Build 9.009.0001.1 [21.209.0034]) I want to generate a prod-order. The checkbox "Mark for Production" is set. However, when executing "Create Prod. Orders" the error appears: "Error: An error occurred during processing of the field InventoryID: Object reference not set to an instance of an object...". What could be the reason for this?Thanks in advanceAnastasia

After creating a sales order and entering attribute details from the configurator demand is created in MRP.  Next, from the MRP display screen, we generate the Production orders.  The configuration attributes are not carrying over to the production order.  How can we get the configurator details to be maintained?    

Has anyone ran into the error seen below before? I am looking for a way to correct the error or just delete the move to start fresh with a new move. Any information about this problem would be very helpful. TIA! 

We recently found a variance between the LOT numbers  that our material transactions were set to consume vs the LOT number our issue transaction were consuming. The quantity of each product deducted was the same, but the LOT it was using was different between the two transactions.We escalated this issue to Acumatica and they came back and told us that we needed to switch our base UOM to the smallest unit of measure that we use. Currently our base unit is in LBS and we have a UOM conversion into grams and into kilograms.Moving all of our inventory from being stocked in LBS to being stocked in grams is going to be a major change to our processes and take a lot of time to fix a problem that was working fine for us for over 6 months. Does anyone have any ideas in how to fix this issue with changing the UOM’s?

Dear Concern,request you to please suggest the process for inventory out from warehouse and in after job workInventory Out for job work and in against job work: for example we wish to out inventory like  component, Semi finish goods and Raw material from warehouse  to vendor place for job work activities and after job work same will be return back as Semi finish goods or finish goods . how to track inventory out and in process thru acumatica ERP.  

Hi MFG community. I just ran into issue with 2022 R1 build 22.102.0054. My client has configurator. When you create  a production order and add the preconfigured key to the reference page, the order saves correctly.If on the other hand, your create the production order, click save, then add the preconfigured key to the references tab, Acumatica copies in the default Bill of materials associated with the configured item. It does not copy the preconfigured key build.Is anyone else seeing this behavior? Chuck

I have customers that are process manufacturers that make materials that cannot be disassembled.  The materials are produced and reported through a Move transaction.  The Move transaction is designed to allow for you to scrap completed items on the Production Order but not to Reject and Rework completed items.Has anyone else developed a customization or process that they have found to work well for Rejecting a finished good, segregating the materials in a Material Review location, and then either scrapping, reworking, or returning to regular stock?

We are experiencing a major problem this morning where we are prevented from adding any stock items to production orders.  Please see the screen shot below.  We cannot enter any items into any production orders under any op id.  We get the error message indicated.  Anyone know what corrective action needs to be taken to stop this?  It has never happened to us before. 

All we have this issue and plan on up grading however I need to better understand how to utilize this GI. Has anyone utilized this in the past and can you give me some pointers?   

So I am attempting to create a Generic Inquiry that would show a rollup of our Production Order. I want to see Materials and Labor issued to the “Job”. We have many order that can be nested 11+ levels deep. So I want to see the roll up to the “top Level” item. Has any one else accomplished this ? Would love to hear some others insight. 

I need a refresher...if you have Past Due PO’s, Work Orders, Sales Orders, etc., what does MRP do with the items on those orders. Does it skip over them by default or are they included?My purchasing team is thinking the item in the attached pics should have a Safety Stock requirement in the list but I’m thinking there are enough open PO’s that the system doesn’t see a need for a Safety Stock order yet.Hopefully someone in the community can offer some insight!