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Bill of Material. MRP, Production Management, Product Configuration

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angierowley75
Acumatica Moderator
angierowley75Acumatica Moderator
posted in Manufacturing
Production Scheduling Whitepaper

The purpose of the Production Scheduling Whitepaper is to increase the reader’s knowledge of the scheduling processes available within Acumatica. It is strongly recommended to first complete the M100, M200 and M210 manufacturing education courses and be familiar with Acumatica processes and general work center and work calendar configurations. Upon completion of reading this document readers should understand: Available scheduling methods within Acumatica How Acumatica determines start and end dates for each scheduling method What inputs are considered for each scheduling method The following concepts are NOT addressed in detail in this document as they are well covered in either Acumatica’s online help or the M100, M200, or M210 manufacturing education courses. How to configure work centers How to configure tools How to configure machines For Finite Scheduling, when to run APS Maintenance The following topics were excluded in the first version of this whitepaper but may be added in th

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jdobish
Pro II
angierowley75
Acumatica Moderator
angierowley75Acumatica Moderator
posted in Manufacturing
Request for Feedback - Manufacturing Focused Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

The Manufacturing Product Management team is collecting feedback for KPIs we could build to deliver out of the box with the Acumatica Manufacturing Edition. We have created a survey listing numerous industry-standard KPIs, which we would like you to review and rank. Link: https://forms.gle/tZH83FeFDecstrPN8 The survey will be open until February 14th, 2025. We thank you in advance for your time and investment in the future of the product.

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angierowley75
Acumatica Moderator
angierowley75
Acumatica Moderator
angierowley75Acumatica Moderator
posted in Manufacturing
Manufacturing Costing Whitepaper

The purpose of the Production Costing Whitepaper is to help users understand how Acumatica collects manufacturing costs and calculates the cost of an item produced via a production order. Upon completing the whitepaper, the reader should be comfortable with the following concepts: How financial information flows through a production order How production orders collect costs How Acumatica calculates the cost of an item produced from a(n) Actual, Estimated, or Standard Costing Production Order How scrap costs are calculated and processes This knowledge can be applied it to by-products, and disassembly production orders but these topics are not directly covered within the whitepaper.

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Acumatica Employee
angierowley75
Acumatica Moderator
angierowley75Acumatica Moderator
published in Manufacturing
Material Requirements Planning Whitepaper

The purpose of the Material Requirements Planning Whitepaper is to increase your working knowledge of the MRP process within Acumatica. It is strongly recommended to first complete the M100, M200 Manufacturing Education course and be familiar with Acumatica Manufacturing processes and general MRP Configuration. Upon the completion of the whitepaper the readers should understand: Inputs to MRP and what parameters to consider if results are not as expected. How a parameter impacts planning results and where it is used in the MRP regeneration process. How MRP performs calculations The results presented by MRP by working an example backwards. Why exceptions are generated. The following topics are not addressed in detail in the Whitepaper as they are well covered in the M100 and M200 Acumatica Education courses What is MRP How to configure basic MRP Preferences The following topics are not included in this whitepaper, but may be addressed in a future: Forecast generation see On-line help LI

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jdobish
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justen0351Jr Varsity III
asked in Manufacturing
concat emails in sql view to use in business event

I am trying to CC multiple people on an email template for a business event. I want our customer service department to be able to easily who is copied on these emails. so i added a checkbox to the customer (Contact table) screen. I then created a sql view that concats all the email addresses into one string. The business event always fails and says “Invalid Mail Address”. Below are screenshots. I tried changing the dac of the sql view to have that field be [PXDBEmail] and also string but i cant seem to make it work. Is what im doing possible? I did verify in one of the email fields that i can put multiple with “;” inbetween and it will send it to both, but i dont want our customer service to have to fill it out in that field everytime.

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Preeti Rayen
Freshman I
Preeti RayenFreshman I
asked in Manufacturing
Conversion of Estimates to Bill of Material

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?

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bwhite49
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salvonashaiFreshman I
posted in Manufacturing
Sharing Our GI: BOM Estimator

Hi All - New to the community here but wanted to share a GI our team put together to see if it would help anyone else. This GI takes in a qty, warehouse, and BOM. Based on the BOM and quantities it will calculate how much you could make based on each item alone. It will format the line item as green (if enough to make the qty listed on the header) or red (if insufficient to make the qty listed on the header). Looking to share this and learn more as we are new in the community!

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Preeti Rayen
Freshman I
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bodiecFreshman II
asked in Manufacturing
Remove Default BOM

Hey, Does anyone know how to remove a BOM as a default BOM for a stock item. For example, I have a BOM for an item that we used to make, but the item changed and needed a new BOM revision, and when that new revision is set to the default BOM, I assumed it would remove the default from the old BOM. Instead, now I have two BOMs for the same stock item, that are both the “default’ BOM.

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gmast
Freshman I
gmastFreshman I
asked in Manufacturing
Trying to Use Bill of Material Steps

We are testing using the STEPS tab on the Bill of Material and having this show up for operators in the Production Order Details as Work Instructions with pictures and we can’t get the Step detail that is added to a Bill of Material to show up on the Production Order. We want to keep this digital and not print a production ticket report which we could build a custom report to have it show up. Has anyone used steps and can provide some advice? I haven’t found any reference at all to STEPS in the HELP nor on Community so I’m at a loss. ​@ChrisOkamuro52 - You showed step detail in the Shop Floor Kiosk demo at Summit this year. Was pulling the Step detail into a production order new functionality and not something available today?

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gmast
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Jr Varsity III
frankfiorentino81Jr Varsity III
asked in Manufacturing
Blanket Sales Orders Not Reflected in MRP

I read through the Acumatica MRP literature, and it clearly states that blanket sales order lines should be reflected in MRP as forecasted demand however I cannot seem to get this to work. Is anyone working with blanket sales orders for manufactured items and able to get them to show in MRP Display?

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Preeti Rayen
Freshman I
Preeti RayenFreshman I
asked in Manufacturing
Tracking Material and Production Labor Costs in Projects in Acumatica

We have a project with multiple tasks from initiation to signoff. For this project, we’re creating Production Orders for multiple Finished Goods. Labor Transactions: When labor transactions are created for a production order, they generate a GL transaction that posts to the WIP (Work-in-Progress) account. Upon closing the production, the labor costs move to the Finished Goods (FG) inventory. Shipping/Issuing Finished Goods: When the finished goods are shipped or issued, the costs move to COGS (Cost of Goods Sold) and update the Material account group in the project. Is this flow and my understanding correct? The main challenge I’m facing is tracking the production labor costs that have been reported back to the project, particularly when there is a budget allocated for labor costs. Labor Budgeting: How can I ensure that the actual production labor costs are properly tracked against the budget that was allocated for labor within the project? Linking Labor to the Project: How do I make s

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angierowley75
Acumatica Moderator
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MelvinFreshman I
posted in Manufacturing
Production nbr quantity edit completed

Hi is there any possible to edit this? i want to edit the quantity but status is completed Thank you

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garcimig09Freshman I
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Is there a way that I can create a generic Inquiry to estimate of how many of a particular sub-assembly can be made from the on-hand materials?

This is what I’ve been able to build but I want to make section that gives me a final number of how many I can build. Not have it show me what the lowest number in stock that I have. I want to see a section that says I can only build 6.

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Jr Varsity III
justen0351Jr Varsity III
asked in Manufacturing
Device Hub Action for move screen

I am trying to add an action on the move screen to print a report via device hub. I was trying to follow the Acumatica post below and modify it for my needs . I am also including some others that i tried to use to help me, but i am clearly doing something wrong. I have very little knowledge of C# so its very possible it is a simple error that I dont know about. Below is my entire code. Any help would be greatly appreciated. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52117362/custom-print-invoice-action-on-process-screen https://bstevens.net/brian/printing-to-a-label-printer-via-device-hub/ using PX.Data;using PX.Objects.CS;using PX.Objects.AM.Attributes;using System;using System.Collections;using PX.Objects;using PX.Objects.AM;using System.Threading; namespace PX.Objects.AM{ public class MoveEntry_Extension : PXGraphExtension<PX.Objects.AM.MoveEntry> { #region Event Handlers public PXAction<AMBatch> print; [PXUIField(DisplayName = "Print Move with DeviceHub")] [PXButton] public virtual IEnume

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Jr Varsity III
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ltussing03Captain II
asked in Manufacturing
Production order is not created from Inventory Planning (MRP) display

Stock item has demand and shows up in Inventory planning display. Source accurately shows as “Manufacturing”. It has an active BOM. I select the line and click the action of “Manufacture”. It looks like it is working, and the message comes up “The operation has completed”. However, the line remains in the inventory planning display grid, and not production order is created. Any thoughts why the production order is not created? Thanks!

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Acumatica Employee
mbrown30
Jr Varsity III
mbrown30Jr Varsity III
asked in Manufacturing
Capable to Promise (CTP) multi-level BoM

Hi I have been trying to set up CTP with a multi-level BoM and I am having some trouble. Does anyone know if CTP work with multi-level BoMs please? Thanks Matt

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sdeforge14
Freshman I
jdobish
Pro II
jdobishPro II
asked in Manufacturing
Best way to Eliminate a Circular Reference for Mixed Lots

We have a client that has a bit of a unique product where they are mixing lots of product and creating the same product but after testing they get a new lot number. This is very similar to Super Batch in Process manufacturing. You cannot put the same product in a BOM that you are trying to put into finished goods because you cannot have a circular reference, but you can manually add the same lot/serialized item into a production order. They are looking for a solution to be able to to mix these lots of the same product, and I was trying to see if there have been any ideas out there besides doing manual adds of the lots (which may be the best option, but throwing it out there)

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jdobish
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Freshman I
colinvk1Freshman I
asked in Manufacturing
Dock-To-Stock Entry

I am looking for a way to add dock-to-stock period into MRP planning (does not need to be part number specific, can be one stock period for all parts) so we get a purchase part in a day or two before our schedule actually shows we need it. Lead time additions will just order the part earlier, not bring it in earlier. Anyone else have a solution to this? I feel like it's right there in front of me, but can’t seem to locate the solution.

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snzhangFreshman I
asked in Manufacturing
Engineering Workbench & Visual BOM issue - showing wrong revision

Hi everyone Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this issue in Engineering Workbench and Visual BOM. In BOM, the Subassembly Item BOM is set to Revision B. But in Visual BOM and Engineering Workbench, it pulls in BOM Revision A. Is this intended behaviour of these two screens? Revision A is not the default BOM for the subassembly. Thanks for your input.

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averagethoFreshman I
asked in Manufacturing
Messed up a production move transaction

I have a production order with multiple moves, on two of those operations I produced two more units than planned for. EX. operation one planned: 25, made: 27. operation two, planned 25, made 27. operation 3 planned 25 made 25. The production order completed at 25 and it got closed, the extra two units never made it through the final operation and are now sitting in the WIP account. Is there a way to clean this up? It is my first time using multilevel BOMs in a production order and this is the first big mistake that has come up. Thanks!

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SBaldwinJr Varsity III
asked in Manufacturing
Inventory Planning - Only Suggest Manufacture Amount Based on Material Supply

My ultimate goal is to have MRP tell me how much of an item I can manufacture based on the materials I have in stock. Example: We purchase potatoes in bulk (it has a stock item of Potato Variety - Bulk) We sell that potato in 3 different sizes via manufacturing Potato Variety - Size A Potato Variety - Size BPotato Variety - Size C I want MRP to tell me how many of each size I can make not just based on SO but based on the supply of the bulk potato when the sales date of all of the above sizes (first come first served). I thought turning off MRP for the bulk items would help with this but it still seems to be only looking at total sales and not the supply to make the sizes. Thanks!

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angierowley75
Acumatica Moderator
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nworkFreshman I
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BOM Cost Roll is updating wrong revision

When I do a BOM cost rollup, it is pulling the cost of the old revision and putting that cost into the pending cost instead of the latest revision. For example: One part may have 4 revisions based on changes we have made to a part (REV A was the original BOM and then we created REV 1, 2, 3, 4 based on the customers needs). Instead of pulling REV 4 which is the current rev, it is pulling REV A’s cost and putting that into the pending cost field instead of REV 4.

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MichaelShirk
Captain II
MichaelShirkCaptain II
asked in Manufacturing
Is It Possible to Default Vendor Location based on Purchase Demand Warehouse?

I know it’s possible to default the ship-to warehouse based on the vendor location selected on the PO, but is it possible to default the vendor location based on the demand plan warehouse from the Create Purchase Orders screen? For Example. We have a manufacturing facilities in multiple different states. When creating purchase order to replenish “WHITE PAINT” stock at the South Carolina facility, the system should default to using the South Carolina location for the paint vendor.

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MichaelShirk
Captain II
claudematherne24
Jr Varsity III
claudematherne24Jr Varsity III
asked in Manufacturing
Cost Roll error - one or more BOM contain invalid values

I’m getting this error message when running the Cost Roll. The message says to check the Trace, but nothing is populating in the trace. Has anyone come across this before? Is there a quick way to look at BOMs to see what BOMs may be causing the issue?

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claudematherne24
Jr Varsity III
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Jr Varsity II
DanielGLLJr Varsity II
asked in Manufacturing
Cannot revoke access rights to Unit Cost and Planned Cost fields on a Bill of Materials

I want to grant access to an existing Acumatica User Role to View Only rights for Bill of Material. I grant that access via Bills of Material > Bill of Material. However, the owner doesn’t want the users to see the Unit Cost and Planned Cost data fields for Materials. I have come at this from both Access Rights by Role and Access Rights by Screen. Locating the target fields is straightforward in Bills of Material > Bill of Material > BOM Material. Revoking those fields via either Access Rights forms makes no difference. Acumatica always displays the cost fields. I feel like I have accomplished quite a bit via Access Rights, but this just doesn’t seem to work. How can I revoke access to these fields?

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