Manufacturing

Hi is there an easier way to generate production tickets for the many levels of sub assemblies when using MRP for replenishing stock items?  Seems like a pain to run MRP Generation to create the parent, then keep re-running it over and over to generate all the children.  Any suggestions? thank you

I do not plan to attend Summit this year, but wanted to generate some discussion around what I feel are critical “must-haves” for manufacturers (perhaps that could be asked in the “Ask Us Anything Manufacturing” session at Summit), especially those with configurable products, deep BOMs and complex manufacturing processes:Engineering Change module to include the ability to tie together changes in multiple BOMs under one ECO. Production module to include a formal, documented Production Change Order process.  Our production process is very involved and spans 3-4 weeks.  We often have change orders where we need to swap out several parts and change operations, and we would like to have a formal, documented process showing original specs, changes, and final specs. Would be interested to know Acumatica’s native configurator roadmap - are significant renovations in the future?  We’ve heard from multiple sources that Acumatica’s native configurator is a weaker product.  If no significant renov

Is there any way to view all the transactions affecting the WIP account for a particular production order? 

Hello this is the first time that we encountered this kind of error since the acumatica deployed in to our company  Please help me!Thank you

Hi Everyone We are having an issue with rounding up purchase quantity from required quantity on Purchase Order.  For exampleInventory Item: Metal Sheet (Each Sheet is 2.5 sqm)Base Unit: SQMPurchase Unit : EA“Qty Roundup” under manufacturing only applies to required quantity in base unit.  Say 12.9 sqm of metal sheet is required for a production order. It generates a Purchase Order for 5.16 sheets. (We need the Purchase Order to round up the quantity to an integer, in this case 6 sheets.)  We tried implementing lot size as 2.5 in both 1) inventory - replenishment and 2) bill of material - lot.It didn’t seem to work. Could you please suggest a solution? Is customisation the only way?  Thanks in advance. 

We are currently trying to change the scrap percentage of a component which exists in thousands of parts, and it looks like the Mass Change function in Bills Of Materials work space is limited to only replace one part for another.  I was hoping there would be something that we could make a change to any field that exists in the BOM for a component and be able to reload to Acumatica.

Would like to change the standard cost on a stock item, but we get the following error if there is a quantity in inventory.  I believe there is no away around this other than to adjust out inventory, make the change, then adjust it back in.  “IN Error: There is non zero Quantity on Hand for this item. You can only change Cost when the Qty on Hand is equal to zero” Is this correct?

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!

When updating the Safety Stock and other settings on the INVENTORY PLANNING tab of a stock item, the new value carries over to all existing item warehouse details records for the item. Shouldn’t it only carry over to whatever the default warehouse is? It seems undesirable for it to update all warehouse detail records because each warehouse could have its own safety stock. This is on 25R1 25.101.0153.5. I understand that when multiple warehouses are available that the planning settings should be updated on the individual item warehouse details records. However, it becomes confusing for users when there may only be 2 warehouses (one ‘Main’ and a secondary back up warehouse). It’s easier to simply update the safety stock on the stock item and have that setting carry over to the warehouse detail record for the default warehouse, rather than also updating the secondary warehouse. Is this expected behavior?

When setting up a new item in Inventory, what is the maximum field length and are there any character restrictions such as spaces, @, #, *, -, etc.

Hi we are stuck and 2months behind in our implementation of Acumatica.   Our BOMs often consist of standard components and custom Make to Order components.  From the sales order it seems Acumatica generates the production order for the parent but uses MRP to generate the children.  The children production tickets then don’t contain information about the sales order or customer making it confusing for our shop production team (they don’t know what order the custom components are for).  We can’t use Auto Create Linked Orders or else it will disregard on hand inventory for standard components.  Hoping you can shed some light how you manage production tickets for sub assemblies?  

I can not get my Item costs(Avg cost) to report on the stock items GI table. They all report as zero.

Hi SirWe would like to know what mean of production variance.As we do a disassembly transaction and notice that system auto generate “ production variance” May  i know what is this for? Please refer to the below.If based on below journal , does it mean the production variance 21.44 is reduce the inventory value as the double entry is credit account code14720 inventory.  

Hi,Wondering if anyone knows how I can access the fields that contain the cost data of a BOM?I would like to access the fields inside the BOM Cost Summary popup, either via a generic inquiry, API endpoint, or even just a BQL statement, to use elsewhereAny help is much appreciated!!

I am trying to create production orders from a sales order, but I keep getting this message:Creating production orders: At least one item has not been processed.I have done this hundreds of times, but I have never had this difficulty before.  What am I missing here?

Is there functionality that allows for paperless traveler in Acumatica?

Are there any users experiencing strange behavior in the Generate Forecast screen in v2020r2?  We’ve found the following issues:If an existing calculation is displayed in the Generate Forecasts screen, and the user wants to create a generate a new calculation with different parameters, the system throws an error regarding a “circular” reference.  This requires the user to delete all of the forecast lines from the Generate Forecasts screen so he or she can start over. If a user generates a forecast, it is displayed and cached within his or her user account but is not visible on another’s account.  In other words, it appears that each user is creating and maintaining his or her own forecast as opposed to the forecast been company wide. To that point, if one user removes all of the line on “his” generated forecast, other users will have their own forecasts on their screens, even after a web page refresh.  It appears that the generated forecasts are remaining in users’ caches incorrectly. 

I’m trying to add work centers.  The shift is required, but the system is not allowing the shift to be added.  There is a valid shift, but when selected, it is blanked out when I tab out of the field.

Hi All,When I click on test configuration under product configurator in MFG module, then it’s giving below error. 

Scenario:Configuration ID has Features and Options within the Features. The Options have subassembly Inventory IDs with BOMs. These BOMs have Operation Work Centers. Each of these Work Centers has a material list of items that need to go to that Work Center. The Work Centers in this BOM match the Work Centers in the Configuration ID BOM ID. These materials, for the most part, are all stocked, finished goods. The materials within these Work Centers, should be rolled up/added to the Work Centers of the Configuration ID BOM ID. When using Phantom routing “Exclude” it ignores the operation Work Centers of the subassembly BOM and adds the material to the Operation ID of the Feature Option. This, adds the materials to the WRONG Work Center. When using Phantom routing “After” it adds the operation Work Centers of the subassembly BOM and adds DUPLICATE Work Centers for each Work Center of each Option BOM selected. I assume that “Before” will do the same, but add the Operation Work Center, as a

In our business we have thousands of finished goods that we sell. However, a large number of them have the same manufacturing method e.g. all straight lengths follow the same process, all elbows follow the same process etc. the only change is the material that is used i.e. larger sheet blanks for larger finished goods. We can create 1 x BOM for each item, but that makes future potential modifications laborious e.g. if we change a manufacturing process by using a different machine, we’d have to change hundreds of affected BOMs. Before we create thousands of BOMS unnecessarily, are there any best methods of practice that fellow Acumatica users are adopting that could help in this scenario?Thanks,

Hi I’m trying to create a by-product and per the instructions it says select in BOM but I don’t seem to see that as an option?  Only have “regular, Phantome or subcontract” Anyone else have this as a problem?  Am i looking in the wrong field? Missing something in setup?  

My company is new to Acumatica, and we are having challenges with the MRP Requirements Screen.   We have over 200 FG skus to plan and we would like to see an aggregate view of Supply vs. Demand.If we use a Bucket ID with a calendar starting today: This screen does not show past due Actual Demand (Customer orders) or Supply (Purchase orders)-then the Ending Quantity goes negative  If we use negative periods to capture the past due Demand and Supply:The screen takes the current OH as  the starting inventory(Begin Qty)  in the past, then we get a different Net Qty and En Qty My experience with other MRP planning screens it to roll the past due open sales orders and past due purchase/production orders) into today’s bucket and calculate ending inventory from today onward.Past dues orders still need to be dealt with via exceptions messages. Time buckets should be in Calander dates and not rolling.  Is anyone else struggling with the functionality of this screen?

We created a production order for a part we had created, to be able to remove material and add some other, this production order has a step with components with negative quantities, which will strip back material and put it back in inventory.  If we do a Material transaction, we have not issues.If we try to do a backflush via a MOVE transaction, we get an error message, during the MOVE referencing a location that is only used to receive purchased orders.If we remove the backflush flags from the components, we are able to process the MOVE transaction.RECDOCK is only for receiving PO’s. None of the items involved have this location in their setup. The production order is not attached to any sales order.We have since been able to process this order by doing the Material transaction and removing the backflush flags to do the MOVE.  I’ve been able to replicate this scenario in one of our testing environments and I’m wondering if this is a bug.

Does anyone have any experience with scrapping a part number in a production while including the serial number?  i tried to move a production order with a scrap of 1 and qty of zero but it won’t let me put a serial number in the field.