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

Production is the heartbeat of every manufacturer. Production management is difficult 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.

Key Benefits of Production Management for Your Company

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.

Important Features of Manufacturing Operations Management

VIEW PRODUCT SHEET

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.

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

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 lifecycle of the item. Capture lot and serial numbers at purchase receipt, inventory issues, and shop activity transactions.

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

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