How do I set up manufacturing for a company?

Fill Manufacture and Controlling Setting with the issuance, receipt and resource journals, make the manufacturing units with their warehouse lines, and the operations and routings.

Screen

Manufacture and Controlling Setting, Manufacturing Unit, Operation, Routing

Who

The consultant with the accountant

Takes effect

On save

Needs first

Journals, sites, warehouses, resources

Before you start

• Transaction journals for issuance, receipt and vouchers (Transaction Journal).
• Sites and warehouses (Site and Warehouse).
• Resources with debit and credit accounts (Resource).

Steps

1. On Manufacture and Controlling Setting, fill Journal For Issuance, Journal For Receive and Journal for Resource, or per site on the lines.
2. Decide the switches: yield calculation, BOM-less orders, hiding BOM or routing, variant checks, transfer requests.
3. On Manufacturing Unit, make each unit with its site and at least one line with an input and an output warehouse (leave category and type empty for a general line).
4. Make the Operation records and a Routing per made item with resources and hours.
5. On each made item, set the Manufacturing Unit.

Check it worked

• A manufacturing order for a made item gets its warehouses from the unit and can be released; its confirmation posts without asking for journals.

If something looks wrong

• "There is an problem in Production Unit Input/Output Warehouse" The unit has no matching line.
• "Please Define Issuance Journal in Setting" Fill the issuance journal.

Related

• Plan to produce - the process this prepares
• Set up a new company - where this fits in the setup order.