Running Production Orders in Parallel

HI ​@DLago 

Here is an older article that may help you:

Variable Labor Rate - Parallel Processes | Community

Hi ​@DLago - Based on your statements above, I’m going to presume you’re using Acumatica’s APS module in addition to the base manufacturing module. 

The current iteration of APS does not support scheduling two operations on one work center at a time (though, it’s in the pipeline the ACU development team is working on). 

Therefore, to work around this, you either need to:

1) Manually schedule a WO via User Dates (and, manually assess work center utilization percentages based on all production orders via exported GI’s).

2) Bump the crew size higher on the work center (i.e. crew size = 2 for running 2 operations at once). Technically, this will mean “you finish both operations at 50% of the expected run time” instead of “you’re working on two jobs at once but they take the normal amount of time.” Work center capacities would be properly stated, but your operation end dates would be too aggressive. If you’ve got many operations on the production order, the cascading affect could be problematic. 
 

There are some scheduling ISV’s on the Acumatica Marketplace that do support this functionality. Protected Flow Manufacturing is one I’ve seen utilized quite often. 
 

Let me know if this helps and/or if you’re looking for additional info. Thanks!