@Omnipotent.inc, only forum moderators can move a suggestion into the ideas category. Otherwise, there would be thousands and duplicates. Moderators apply their judgement and will not classify as ideas those suggestions that violate fundamental accounting principles, are considered not technically feasible, violate basic user interface philosophies of the program, have already been rejected by the developer, would serve only one or a limited number of users, etc. In other words, we screen for widespread applicability, then we see what the user community has to say.
Some ideas are implemented within hours. Some languish for years. The developer makes those decisions.
Short answer: When it is implemented it is removed from the ideas category.
Long answer:
Although many users would like to demand a schedule and monitor progress against that schedule, that is not how any software company works.
An owner of a software company can reasonably expect an answer to such a question.
A customer who is buying software development can discuss progress against the contracted development schedule.
Neither applies to customers of an off the shelf software product. It is what it is, and it is very rare for any such software company to publically release internal priorities or schedules. Products are released to the public when they are released, and it is only then the public are informed.
NG Software is no different to any other company developing or maintaining a product.
There is no need to keep sending messages with reminders or still waiting. The topic is in ideas and depending on many factors will be implemented with an unknown time-frame from a day to many years. You just need to be patient or find a work around until the idea is implemented.
The old version is still in place. We haven’t changed it the way we want it. We want to add more than 1 type of “Raw material” and “Finished Item” to one or more. Since we are the country’s main agricultural producer and sell rice and grain, more accurate lists will be available if rice plant production records are available. Thank you very much.
As you can see this has been a long time in ideas so do not expect any movement on this soon. It is better to look for another application in the meantime that is better at this and keep Manager for accounting rather than inventory and production management.
@Mmtm_Staff please read the first post in this topic as it contains the same needs you expressed for Multiple Inputs and Multiple Outputs. As mentioned it has not been developed and as this is since April 2017 well before you became a Forum member and guess user of Manager put in the ideas category and thus not available to date.
The work I’m currently doing on inventory will resolve this topic.
Multiple outputs are already supported. For the time being, you can set negative quantity in bill of materials already. There will be new set of fields on production orders to specify secondary output items to make it more obvious.
We have used Manager for years and it is sooo much better than Quickbooks. We recommend it to our accountant and others. We are currently adding Inventory Items via batch create.We manufacture multiple finished goods using some of the same raw material items.
Some inventory items are stored in a BOM of a different system but some are not. For those items not in separate system, we want to know vendor/source of item for re-order. So we added custom fields to inventory item.
We also want BOM as described in this thread. Will it allow batch create for new items including custom vendor field data?
As far as linkage between vendors and items, there isn’t any. You can however, use Advanced Queries on Purchase Invoices - Lines to get the suppliers for any one or any group of items
As far as the template BOM, it still hasn’t been implemented, hence this thread is still in ideas
A) BOM recipe template
B) Multiple production items (finished goods) per inventory item [many<–>many]. This suggests a separate table for production orders rather than store them in Item.
I) [new] A join between Item and Supplier, also many<–>many
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