Tracking Material and Production Labor Costs in Projects in Acumatica

Labor cost of the Production are applied the the Item being produced.

If I am manufacturing a widget - the cost of the widget would be all the material, labor, and overhead I reported against it.

People that want to report labor to the Project instead of the production order should set the labor rate on the production order to zero and have their resource track time directly to the project.

​@angierowley75 - Thank you for the response. If the labor is tracked directly to the project and not through production order? the the cost of the item will only include material + overhead + etc.. without the labor correct?

Hello ​@angierowley75!  I am trying to figure this out still.  From what I see above, there is not a way to get time to post to BOTH the Project and the Production Order. This is a problem.  We have a big project where we want to track all the time that goes into the project. But we also want to track the labor cost to the Production Order to get correct cost on the production order. Is there really no way to do this?

Thank you!

You track labor to the production, and the cost of the labor is included in the finished good production cost, which is tracked on the project.

If you want to track labor without any cost to the production order and then also track labor to the project, you can do that by setting the labor rate to zero - so you capture hours without cost to the production order.  You can then create labor transactions with cost to the project.

It is not recommended to capture labor hours and cost in both production and labor cost to the project because you would be inflating your costs.

Thank you for your quick response!  I’m sorry, I feel really dumb, ​@angierowley75 … How is the finished good production cost posted to the project?

With a fairly simple customization you can post labor, or any other production cost. to a project by creating a project transaction that does not update the GL.  You only need a customization to update the production transaction with a custom field to indicate it has been posted to the project.  Basically add user fields for the production document type and batch number to PMTran so that you don’t post the transaction again,  The data source for labor would be the production cost transaction with transactions types of labor or backflush labor.  See the help article I wrote https://help.acumatica.com/Help?ScreenId=ShowWiki&pageid=1ce567e9-7d64-4f0d-aa14-d894a35a8fc3 to find the doc type and transaction types.  You could also a checkbox to the production transaction record to indicate it had been posted to a project which may improve performance without having to look at PM Tran.