Manufacturing Edition:
Production Management
Gain the flexibility you need to manage production in make-to-stock, make-to-order, engineer-to-order, configure-to-order, project-centric, job shop, batch, and repetitive manufacturing environments.
Gain Insights Into Production Orders, WIP, and Job Costs
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).
Key Benefits of Acumatica Manufacturing Production Management
Production Orders
Create production orders manually, from sales orders, or with the material requirements planning (MRP) module.
Manufacturing Scheduling
Employ multiple scheduling options including both forward and backward manufacturing scheduling methods.
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.
Preassign Lot and Serial Numbers
Create and preassign lot and serial numbers for finished goods using configurable number masking.
Important Features of Acumatica Production Management
View production order shortages.
Create purchase orders and production orders for the parts that are short from a single screen.
Capture direct production labor to production orders by employee.
Enter and track non-production time using indirect codes.
Eliminate reporting by backflushing labor or material when reporting the production quantity completed, 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.
Eliminate reporting by backflushing labor or material when reporting the production quantity completed, useful when a company only wishes to record the production quantity.
- Monitor and manage performance with detailed reports, including actual vs. standard/planned costs with labor, material, machine, tool, fixed, and variable overhead details.
- Reports summary current work in process (WIP) costs and total job costs by production order.
- Trace all production activities (events) against a production order including description, date and time, and the ID of the user.
- Manufacture to prior or alternate bills of material revisions, substitute operations, and materials as desired.
Support multiple sites and have the flexibility to have different or alternate BOM/Routing for each different site.
- Maintain full lot and serial traceability throughout the item’s lifecycle.
- Capture lot and serial numbers at purchase receipt, inventory issues, and shop activity transactions.
- Create and preassign lot and serial numbers for finished goods using configurable number masking.
- Optionally enforce finished good lot and serial selection when issuing lot or serial controlled components and raw materials to production to retain one-to-one traceability for multi-quantity production runs.
- A lot and serial allocation screen is provided for after-the-fact matching of component lot and serial numbers with finished goods lot and serial numbers.
- Use barcode data collection to record labor and material transactions as well as inventory transactions including issues, receipts, cycle counting, and physical inventory.
- Streamline outside processing for vendor shipments and cost transactions related to purchased, subcontracted services such as heat treating, painting, coating, or assembly.
- Monitor labor efficiency by comparing actual labor against routing standards.
- Filter the Production Order Labor Efficiency Report by order type, inventory item, and production order number.
- The report provides a snapshot of labor transactions by operation with a calculated efficiency percentage and employee details.
- Streamline data entry with control points to define required milestone operations for production reporting and backflushed operations.
- Monitor production in real-time with production manager and production meeting dashboards for insights into work center utilization, work queues, order status, past due operations, late orders and operations, and work in process (WIP).
