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We are pretty new to Acumatica and looking for a “best practice” solution for a manufacturing process. 

  • So lets say we produce 100 metal widgets via Production Order.
  • The order is complete/closed and the widgets will sit on a shelf for months perhaps. 
  • Then at some time in the future some of those widgets will be bent up in a certain way as to become its next form.

So is it best to call each form of our widget (flat form and bent form) two separate InvID’s with separate BOM’s? Or does Acumatica have a different way to do this?

chris

Best answer by Samvel Petrosov

It also depends on how you are planning to track the quantities for these different forms of the widget. If you need to track them separately, then you most likely need to have 2 separate Inventory IDs. Although, it is not always necessary, for example, in a scenario where you have a dedicated location for each form you still may be able to use the same Inventory ID.

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    Hi ​@cpstei 

    Are you going to create a new production order to replace the widgets? What happens with the bent widgets (what is your business practice)?

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    It also depends on how you are planning to track the quantities for these different forms of the widget. If you need to track them separately, then you most likely need to have 2 separate Inventory IDs. Although, it is not always necessary, for example, in a scenario where you have a dedicated location for each form you still may be able to use the same Inventory ID.

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    Technically, a bent vs flat widget is a different inventory item (different form, fit, function).  It can depend though on value, criticality, time to change flat to bent, volume of use, how you plan to manage resupply of the flat and bent widget, etc.  If you decide to use two different ID’s, Kitting may be a more suitable function to look at in lieu of a Production Order to record transformation of a flat widget to a bent widget.

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    I believe the best practice here would be two separate part ID’s as stated with two different production orders. One for making. One for bending operation since labor costs may change months later. This could more accurately portray the cost as well as not have long outstanding production orders waiting on the next operation (bending). 

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    The responses from Y'all sure seem consistent. I believe that separate Inventory ID’s will also help us identify costs better as well. Thanks everyone for taking the time to respond.

     

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