Production Management

View production order shortages. Create purchase and production orders on a single screen for the parts that are in short supply.

Capture direct manufacturing labor for production orders by employees. Enter non-production time using indirect codes and enter labor directly from the Production Order screen.

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.

Issue stock and non-stock materials and parts to a production order. Capture lot and serial numbers on controlled items.

Monitor and manage performance with AI-powered cost variance anomaly detection and detailed reports, including actual versus standard/planned costs, along with labor, material, machine, tool, fixed, and variable overhead details.

Manufacture to prior or alternate bills of material revisions, substitute operations, and materials as desired.

Streamline data entry to define required milestone operations for production reporting and backflushed operations.

Maintain complete lot and serial traceability throughout the item’s lifecycle. Capture lot and serial numbers and attributes at the time of purchase receipts, inventory issues, and shop activity transactions.

Use barcode data collection to record labor and material transactions, as well as inventory transactions such as issues, receipts, cycle counting, and physical inventory.

Support multiple sites and have the flexibility to have an alternate BOM/Routing for each site.

Enhance material planning and visibility into related production orders by automatically or manually linking dependent subassembly orders to finished goods orders, utilizing order number conventions to identify related 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, which considers interdependencies and optimizes resources with notifications for schedule conflicts.

Prevent production order operation mistakes related to over-completion of quantities by production order operation for improved costing and material planning.

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 and subcontracted services, like heat treating, painting, coating, or assembly. Know what to do when parts are received back from the supplier, with automated movement back into WIP, providing transparency into production orders and operation details during inventory receipt processes.

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 are issued to production to retain one-to-one traceability for multi-quantity production runs. An allocation screen provides after-the-fact matching for component lot and serial numbers with finished goods lot and serial numbers. Improve quality and streamline inventory management with user-defined lot or serial attributes.

Monitor production in real-time with the production manager and production meeting dashboards to gain insights into work center utilization, work queues, order status, past-due operations, late orders, and work-in-process (WIP).

Save time with side panels that provide access to production order details, customers, bill of materials, sales orders, projects, and project tasks, all without leaving data entry screens.

Manage international production costs with multiple base currencies for flexible and accurate financial reporting.

Ensure product quality with the optional Quality Management Suite (QMS) for Acumatica. Define and perform quality tests during production with certificates of analysis (COA), non-conformance (NC) tracking, and corrective and preventative action (CAPA) plans.

Streamline setup and enhance cost control with the Manufacturing Cost Accountant user role and optional production order lock status. Locked production orders prevent additional manufacturing transactions from being entered 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.

Provide workers with the flexibility to report production operations out of sequence and simultaneously report multiple operations.

Trace all production order activities (events), including event descriptions, dates, times, and user IDs.