Is there any possibility to create a new tab for (Items Issued for Production)
For example, I have many production orders. And I issue items for each production order daily.
Sometimes one production order lasts for a week or so.
To do that using the current production facitilites of the program, I open the production order and add quantities manualy to each production order.
I am suggesting creating new tab (Items issued for Production) and give it the same idea of payments or receipts or any other tab.
And connect it with a drop down list to choose which production order we want to issue on.
Thanks a lot.
This idea sounds very strange. A production order records the creation of finished inventory items. The bill of materials directly affects the cost of the resulting items. Repeatedly adding more input items to a production order would distort the results. Can you explain more about what you are trying to accomplish?
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For example, We have a production order of item X for 3000 cartons.
It will take our team one week to produce.
Its BOM is consisted of Item B 3000 Cartons
Item C 4000 KG and so on.
The production team takes the ingredients from the store on more than once.
So the store issues them material issue all week.
I enter the issued material daily.
For each specific item for each specific production orders.
I’m suggesting the creations of materials issue tab.
Same as payments or any tab.
And this materials issue will be connected with a specific production order.
To add the quantities on the production orders.
Much appreciated.
I am sorry, but I see no benefit to a separate tab for this. Your proposal would require a new transaction every time you issued materials. Your current approach of editing the production order as materials are issued requires the same number of actions, but fewer actual keystrokes. So your proposal would require more work, not less.
There is another negative aspect of your proposal. Currently, if you would enter the full production order at the beginning of the week, all the materials for it would be committed immediately. And finished inventory items would be properly costed, even if you sell items on sales invoices that are not yet completely manufactured. With your approach, the finished inventory items would be considered complete when the production order is created at the beginning of the week, but all materials that will eventual be consumed would not be included. So sales invoices would undervalue the cost of the finished goods sold, overstating your profits.
Thank you for your quick reply.
For the point of work, it will be more work yes, but now I have better control over the materials issue documents. As it will be serialised and filed properly. Same as any other tab for purchasing or payments.
For the point of costing.
To get the program to the real production procedures as best as we can is my goal here.
I work in a food manufacturing factory.
And it takes us more than one day to produce a specific item.
I used to open excel sheet and record on it until the production is finished then I go to manager and open new production order and record all the materials.
Which is something I’m seeking to avoid.
Thanks again.
A production order already does that.
The problem is that there has been no accounting transaction to record as there is when you purchase goods. You cannot issue inventory that goes nowhere. You can sell it, write it off, or produce something with it. Otherwise, it is just an inventory transfer. You are producing something, so a production order is required. There is no point in having two tabs that accomplish the same thing.
If your production cycle is really long and you want up to the minute inventory status, you should consider intermediate stages using the production stage features of Manager. Define inventory items for the intermediate stages so your records of the final item reflect what is really available on any given day. There is no need for an entirely new tab to accomplish this.
Thank you for your time and effort.
Much appreciated.