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Product
Production Management
Gain Insights Into Production Orders, WIP, and Job Costs
Production is the heartbeat of every manufacturer. Production management is challenging without the right tools. Acumatica Manufacturing Edition helps manufacturers to respond to production demand with flexibility to adapt to ever-changing schedules, unplanned breakdowns, late supplier deliveries, and other exceptions that impact what’s happening on the shop floor. Use dashboards, Generic Inquiries, and reports to gain insights into job costs and work in process (WIP).
Create and preassign lot and serial numbers for finished goods. Streamline outside processing for vendor shipments and cost transactions related to purchased, subcontracted services such as heat treating, painting, coating, or assembly.
Key Benefits of Production Management for Your Company
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Production Orders
Create production orders manually, from sales orders, or with the material requirements planning (MRP) module.
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Manufacturing Scheduling
Employ multiple scheduling options including both forward and backward manufacturing scheduling methods.
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Production Performance
Monitor and manage performance with detailed reports, including actual vs. standard/planned costs including labor, material, machine, tooling, and fixed and variable overheads for work in process and job costs.
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Preassign Lot and Serial Numbers
Create and preassign lot and serial numbers for finished goods using configurable number masking.
Important Features of Manufacturing Operations Management
Critical Materials
View production order shortages. Create purchase and production orders for the parts that are short from a single screen.
Labor Tracking
Capture direct manufacturing labor to production orders by employee. Enter and track non-production time using indirect codes and enter labor transactions directly from the production order maintenance screen.
Backflushing
Eliminate reporting by backflushing labor or material when reporting the production quantity completed, which is useful when a company only wishes to record the production quantity.
Material Tracking
Issue stock and non-stock materials and parts to a production order. Capture lot and serial numbers on controlled items.
Production Performance
Monitor and manage performance with detailed reports, including actual vs. standard/planned costs with labor, material, machine, tool, fixed, and variable overhead details.
Production Order Changes
Manufacture to prior or alternate bills of material revisions, substitute operations, and materials as desired.
Production Control Points
Streamline data entry with control points to define required milestone operations for production reporting and backflushed operations.
Lot and Serial Tracking
Maintain full lot and serial traceability throughout the lifecycle of the item. Capture lot and serial numbers at purchase receipt, inventory issues, and shop activity transactions.
Barcode Integration
Use barcode data collection to record labor and material transactions and inventory transactions such as issues, receipts, cycle counting, and physical inventory.
Multi-Site
Support multiple sites and have the flexibility to have an alternate BOM/Routing for each site.
Related Product Orders
Improve material planning and visibility into related production orders by automatically or manually linking dependent subassembly orders to finished goods orders with order number conventions to quickly identify related parent and child orders. For example, a parent finished good may have an order number of 10000 with dependent child orders numbered 10000-01 and 10000-02, respectively. Schedulers benefit from improved finite scheduling logic considering production order interdependencies and optimizing resources with proactive notifications for scheduling conflicts.
Prevent Over Completions
Prevent production order operation mistakes related to overcompletion of quantities by production order operation for improved costing and material planning.
Outside Processing
Outside Processing
Align purchase order request dates with production operation start dates for outside process operations. Streamline outside processing for vendor shipments and cost transactions related to purchased, subcontracted services such as heat treating, painting, coating, or assembly. Know what to do when parts are received back from the supplier with automated moves back into WIP with production order and operation details during inventory receipt processes.
Pre-Assign Lot/Serial Numbers
Create and preassign lot and serial numbers for finished goods using configurable number masking. Optionally enforce finished good lot and serial selection when controlled components and raw materials to production to retain one-to-one traceability for multi-quantity production runs. An allocation screen provides after-the-fact matching component lot and serial numbers with finished goods lot and serial numbers.
Production Dashboards
Monitor production in real-time with the production manager and production meeting dashboards for insights into work center utilization, work queues, order status, past due operations, late orders, and work in process (WIP).
Side Panels
Save time with side panels providing direct access to production order details, customers, bill of material, sales orders, customers, projects, and project tasks without leaving data entry screens.
Multiple Base Currencies
Multiple Base Currencies: Manage international manufacturing production costs with multiple base currencies for flexible and accurate financial reporting.
Optional Quality Management
Ensure product quality with the optional Quality Management Suite (QMS) for Acumatica. Define and perform quality tests during production with certificates of analysis (COA), nonconformance (NC) tracking, and corrective and preventative action (CAPA) plans.
Cost Accounting Controls
Improve cost control with the manufacturing cost accountant user role and optional production order lock status. The security role streamlines implementation and setup for cost accountants. Locked production orders prevent additional manufacturing transactions from being entered for the production order while cost accountants review or adjust transactions before posting finished goods to inventory, clearing work-in-process, and updating financial transactions to the General Ledger.
Non-Sequential Production Reporting
Provide manufacturing workers with the flexibility to report production operations out of sequence and multiple operations simultaneously.
Event Audit Trail
Trace all production activities (events) against a production order, including description, date and time, and user ID.
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