Manufacturing

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 am performing testing on a client’s BOMs whereby materials and labor are both backflushed. The BOMs are quite simple in nature with one or two work centers. At this time we have a zero rate applied to the work center since the client has not determined the appropriate value. When production is completed and the move step is initiated, I see the materials go into WIP at the proper cost. The labor cost does not generate entry since the work center rate is 0. When I check the move out of WIP and into inventory, there is an unknown component to the entry whereby COGs and Inventory are impacted but there is not reflected in the cost of the item, nor should it be. I cannot figure out what is driving this entry.  See screenshots for example. Any idea why the highlighted portion of the entry in the last screenshot is happening?  Client uses Average Cost valuation method for inventory. I tried the Cost Roll process to see if this would fix the issue but it has not.   

I have items on my MRP Exceptions that are showing Transfer Available types. How do I get these off of this list as they should not be available from that supply warehouse? They are the ones highlighted on the bottom.  

Does anyone know if Acumatica supports 'box' functionality that allows for a given stock item to have multiple 'boxes' for storing the item in several inventory locations.Context is a stock item that is received as multiple boxes (say 3) with 1 of 3, 2 of 3 and 3 of 3 stored in different possibly locations. Wasn’t sure if this was supported today and if so, where I could find more details. Any insight, greatly appreciated. Thanks,Dave

My MRP is asking me to delete items from an RC Order (I think) and I am not understanding why. Can anyone shed some light on this situation so I may try to get it cleared off my list? Any help is greatly appreciated, Thanks! 

We were under the impression that an MRP Display of “Safety Stock” indicates the item is only needed to keep the item quantity above the safety stock level. However, we are seeing items which are negative to allocation (ie. demand for the item on existing production orders exceeds the quantity on hand and on order) but MRP shows the item as needed for safety stock. Shouldn’t this be either MRP Requirement or Production Material? See below for sample item:The “Safety Stock” designation is confusing and has resulted in stock outs as the items weren’t ordered in time to meet the real demand for the item. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks

I have three or four production orders that are causing demand on MRP despite the fact that they are closed. Anyone have a list of things I could check to make sure everything has been correctly processed to trace back why this is happening? TIA

This may be a pretty basic questions but I am learning, If I need to edit the stock item safety stock in a warehouse, is there a way to do that in bulk? It would take a very long time to clean up this data if I have to open every single item in item warehouse details and edit them. There has to be a better way! TIA!

When running MRP for a finished good marked as MRP item, do I need to mark raw materials as an MRP item also or will the system automatically pull them in?The idea is to only set the safety stock at the finished good level and run MRP off of that. We want to minimize raw materials at is food production. Thank you.

Does anyone know of a historical WIP report for production?I have a customer who would like to be able to see what was in WIP on any given day, to be able to show auditors.

Is it possible to see a breakdown of total average cost of production into average labor/average material/average overhead and average outside service costs respectively. Is there already a way to do this, is there is sufficient data available to break this out with a custom report or would I need to have a customization to get to this level of traceability? 

Hello,I am unsure of the purpose of Stock Item kits in Acumatica.I created a stock item and marked it as kit.Then I defined the kit in kit specifications.  It is just 2 purchased parts in the kit.I put if a sales order for the kit’s stock item ID and MRP did show it in the MRP display.How do I generate something for the shop to build the kit from MRP?It seems like I have to see the demand in MRP display, then open Kit Assembly and process this.It seems like just having a BOM with 1 “assembly” operation and the component materials is a better way to go as I can generate the production order directly from MRP and when completed the completed kit goes into stock.Am I missing some basic understanding of Kits in Acumatica?Thanks!

I am working on getting MRP up and running for my company. We have been getting by until we could get our BOMs updated with acumatica and in line with how it would pull inventory. Then, we did an entire inventory count to balance back out all of the mistakes that had been made over the months since our “go-live” date. That being said, we have several POs that have been created due to word of mouth need instead of through MRP. Is there a way to go back and link these POs to lines on MRP to remove the items from the list so we do not create any more POs for unnecessary items? If not, how should this be handled to get these items off of MRP?TIA

how can i do a dashbord from inventory stock?

Currently the Clock entry requires a time record of at least 1 min is there a way to set this to seconds vs min? 

in a manufacturing environment:Hello, we need to be able to import BOM as the cost base into either estimate or quote or any other window, then mark up labor cost and material cost and any other markup for sales quote purpose. i.e. BOM1, with 2 ops center A & B, and raw materials 8 & 9once we import bom1, markup op center A by 25% and B by 30%, etc.. Any direction and instruction highly appreciated .. thank youZoey

Hello,We have a production order with the status of “completed” which we need to close.When we attempt to close, it fails and tells us there is unreleased transactions.When I attempt to release the offending labor transaction, it fails and say it can’t process because the production order is “completed”.Seems like a catch 22 here.I can’t close the production order because of the unreleased labor.I can’t release the labor because the production order is completed.There is no way to change the status of the production order to allow corrections.Thanks for any guidance!

Hello,we plan to cover the proces, that we can take data from SO line automatically into linked Product Configuration!Did someone work on this process? Does someone know if this is an standard process in Acumatica?(Optional: take data direct vie REST- API into Product Configuration→ Is this posible? Any experience?:-)) Thanks a lot in advance! BRTim

Has anyone successful made an import scenario to update existing production orders? I have a working scenario to update existing BOMs but the same approach doesn’t appear to work on Production Order Details.I’ve even tried to strip the import down to the most basic steps and it still fails. Is there something special that needs to be done in order to import updates to an existing Production Order? Any help would be greatly appreciated! This is the pared down import scenario - just access a production order This is the error I get. 

Here is the environment:sales order (SO1) is created, auto generate production ticket AM001 ( BOM is set up to backflush labor and materials) shipping entry to ship SO1how can we auto complete AM001 upon step 2 shipping entry to ship out SO1?Many thanksZoey

Hi,In Unit of Measure SCreen am trying to increase the ‘FromUnit’ and ‘ToUnit’ field length from nvarchar(6) to nvarchar(15) and am able to change from backend but am trying customize that field DAC Level but its throwing an error  #region FromUnit          [PXMergeAttributes(Method = MergeMethod.Append)]        [PXDBString(15,IsUnicode =true,IsFixed =true)]        public string FromUnit { get; set; }        #endregion        protected virtual void INUnit_FromUnit_CacheAttached(PXCache Sender)        {        }        #region ToUnit         [PXMergeAttributes(Method = MergeMethod.Append)]        [PXDBString(15, IsUnicode = true, IsFixed = true)]        public string ToUnit { get; set; }        #endregion                protected virtual void INUnit_ToUnit_CacheAttached(PXCache Sender)        {        }

hello, since there is no delivery schedule, is there a shortcut to copy and paste a line of record to next… and all is left to do is changing the delivery date or the shiping QTY?i.e below, how do i copy and paste line 1 to line 2 and 3 rather than manually input them?Thank youZoey 

The Description field looks to be in default paragraph mode. Is there any limitation to the amount of information that can be added to this field? We have parts that require extensive technical descriptions.Do we have the ability to attach a document to this description?

Hi,Is there any quick process functionality so that we can bypass the manual move or material transaction. 

Is there a way to combine a Repair Order in Production with Equipment Management, so that equipment management is updated with changes made in the repair order.  Can the items of a BOM be added as a component to an item for equipment management?