Manufacturing

What would be better structure when using the configurator in Acumatica:1.- Have a base unit “configurable part number” with multiple options.2.- Create a blank part number “model” and everything else, “base unit” + options setup as selectable options?

Hello, I am getting an error when trying to create a purchase order from my Production Order. The Purchase order contains two non-stock items and upon “Processing” the Purchase Order I get two errors, one for each item, and the PO is never created. This only appears to be issues with Non-Stock items. Thoughts?

The business provides configured to order Sales Quotes to customers, There can be a number of different configurations on a Sales Quote.Due to the sales process, Sales Quotes can be in draft for up to 6 months, before they are won and converted to a Sales Order. Within this time frame, it is common for the Engineering to create new revisions for the configured items.This is issue is that on many occasions, at the time of conversion, the configuration revision on the quote has been superseded  is inactive and the configurations have to amended to activate the relevant revisions on the Sales Quote to convert to a Sales Order.Would anyone know if there is a workaround or remedy for this situation? 

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I am unable to uncheck an item for backflush in the production detail screen.My (+) and (-) are also grayed out and I am unable to add or remove lines to the production detail.I was able to make these changes before but now it is not letting me. I attached a screenshot for reference. 

Hi All, I reviewed some articles and most of them couldn’t answer a very simple Use Case.In Manufacturing it is very common that more than just screw or other Components Parts are used as they break in the process or other things.This is technically Scrap that needs (for typical processes) to be logged as Scrap rather than Material Cost against the Production Order.I can’t seem to find a way to accommodate for that kind of Scrap. Scrapping the FG is just completely overstating and doesn’t let the User adjust.Utilizing a Scrap Factor just adds to Material Cost rather than considering it as actual Scrap Cost.I would be very surprised if we cannot accommodate for this at all?This is just so common. Scrap is not the actual Material Cost but separate from Raw Material Cost and needs to be logged - not only for the FG with Scrap write-off.

Hi all. I am trying to update stock items with a default supplier, minimum order qty and attributes. However, I keep getting an error Field: Supplier ID, Value:           , Error: 'Supplier ID' cannot be found in the system.Please see below mapping and let me know what I am missing: 

Is there a way to warn or halt the creation of a production order when the item being created has a BOM that is on any status that is not Active?

I am using the bills and adjustments tab and wanting to edit / release from here. What access do I need to request to gain this access?

Hello, We are able to select the Mark For Production checkbox on all order types besides RM. We are not trying to do this on the receipt line, but we are trying to do this on the issue line. I have already tested the “Make item to order” box is properly functioning. Any Ideas on why we cannot mark a line for production on an RM? Thanks :)

From the IP display page it looks like Acumatica is suggesting that we order 2 cases or this item. But when I go to the Display By Item for this item, I see that a PO already exists and that what is on the PO will suffice our inventory needs (and then some since a customer placed a special order). Here are the Warehouse Details for this item: If my purchaser wasn’t being so diligent about double checking IP recommendations she would have ordered an additional 2 cases that we did not need. How do I make that Inventory Planning Requirement line not show up on the IP Display page?

I just finished a meeting about phantom BOM items and wanted to get the community’s perspective. From what I’m seeing, continuing down the phantom path might reduce visibility into what’s actually being built and why. It also looks like materials tied to phantom BOMs won’t appear on the Critical Materials screen.My question: who here is actively using phantom BOMs, and what real advantages have you found?Our main reason for considering phantoms is to avoid creating separate production orders for subassemblies that we don’t stock, which would otherwise lead to redundant move transactions and extra data entry.

I have an Attribute added to Production Orders.  I need to update the value via the API.  I’ve tried PUT/PATCH/POSTing to the ProductionOrder endpoint with a body like:{  "OrderAttributes": [    {      "AttributeID": {        "value": "PKGMETHOD"      },      "Value": {        "value": "B"      }    }  ],  "OrderType": {    "value": "WO"  },  "ProductionNbr": {    "value": "00000006"  }}...but I just get an error like "The system failed to commit the ProductionAttributes row."  What do I need to do to update the attribute?

The goal is to leverage the width given earlier in configuration and a bottom spreader type selection to include a target option. So WIDTH = 36, BST = ‘ST’; Thus target option is BST36. My initial thought was to create a rule under the BST attribute like so:Include, Custom Condition,  Value 1: =([width]=36 And [bst] = ‘ST’, True, False), etcBut I’ll get an error when trying to run a test config when referencing the attribute I am creating a rule inside. I think it doesn’t like referencing itself ([bst] being the attribute in this case)To make things even more odd, I was able to do this on the attribute above this one, but this one is the last one and for some reason it just keeps throwing this error. Thoughts? Edit: Upon further investigation, I found that the test configurator doesn’t like having custom conditions that reference attributes that have not yet been defined. So I can use the formula above in the condition but only if there is a default value for that attribute already set

Hi, is there a simple way to restrict creating POs from a sales order, if there is no active BOM?

Hi,We are dealing with a very large and complex GI that includes massive data, which is causing timeout issues even after applying filters.Is there a way to increase the server timeout, or are there other solutions you recommend for handling such GIs with large volumes of data? ErrorThanks,Prasad

Hello !   My client produces custom unit and the components used will be fairly new and would not have purchased it earlier. So there is no history or the costing saved in Acumatica.They will use Estimation module to estimate for all components and will convert the Estimate to BOM. I was expecting that the unit Cost from estimate will be transferred atleast to the planned cost field in BOM. But it updates to 0 as there is no average cost in the inventory. so when the Production order is created the Planned material cost will be 0. Has anyone run into this situation? Do you have any ideas of how this can be handled?

We had a production order completed without doing the final move. So the Order is in completed status. We would like to move this into inventory. What is a good way of accomplishing this? 

We want to use scrap as a way to track raw material loss when getting non conforming product.  The problem we discovered is that we backflush boxes and pallets in the BOM.  When we scrap product, we do not use a box or pallet.  How do we stop the system from adding those in a material backflush issue on scrap moves?  

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We have one bin location set on our BOMS to backflush from.  We transfer materials to that location from different Inventory stocking bin locations.  The issue is if we have Critical material on our Production order, it may just not have been transferred or we may not have it.  The only location the Production Order looks at for inventory is our bin location set on BOMS.  We do not want material backflushing from any other location, but we need our Production Manager to see availability within our Inventory quickly.  Any suggestions? 

Hello all,We are having issues when creating a move transaction for a production order, even though all materials have been allocated to the production order, when we try to release the move transaction we get a backflush error : “Backflush material shortage was found for the item in the 1 line of the operation in the order.”.Error MessageTraceWe noticed that this happens when we allocate material, by clicking Line Details on Production Order Details and checking the allocated box, and the available quantity in that location is less than the material required. Allocate materialInventory summary says we don’t have any availableProduction order details says we do have quantity availableOur workaround is to not allocate the material , however, this causes problems with our inventory because it takes material from other locations and not the ones specified on the BOM.All of our items are manufactured on a various work centers, an item can only be manufactured on one work center. We created

We run manufacturing operations at multiple warehouses. We use the same BOMs at all warehouses because the same materials are consumed. However, due to much higher manufacturing volume at our main facility, there are materials that are stocked at that warehouse, but are custom order at the lowest volume facility. Acumatica has the “Dflt. Mark For” checkbox on the stock item level which, when the “Purchase” option is selected for an item, then system will suggest a purchase order when that item appears on a production order. However, I don’t see this option on the Item Warehouse Detail level, which we really need for those items that are regularly stocked at some warehouses, but only ordered on an as-needed basis at other warehouses. Am I missing something, or is Acumatica missing this simple feature?

Any one having a experience about BOM structure for Glove Manufacturing Industry?

Hi Everyone, I'm currently working on an implementation for a manufacturing business and am wondering what best practices for tracking “downtime’’ in production orders during the manufacturing process. For example:a production worker is injured during the production run and the manufacturing line halts for 30 minutes.  or a piece of machinery has techincal issues and is serviced on the fly for 10/15 minuteswhat would be the best way to track this downtime vs the actual labor captured.Open to any ideas, recommendations.Much appreciated