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Manufacturing

Manufacturing in Business Central covers planning, running and costing production orders, from creation through posting consumption, output, scrap and capacity to finishing, reversing and cost adjustment. It answers how-to questions on production order handling, journals, corrections, subcontracting and analytics.

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Overview

Manufacturing in Business Central helps you plan, schedule, execute and analyze production. It uses production BOMs, routings, and work and machine centers to coordinate material consumption, operation time, output and costing. The manufacturing overview page is the best starting point.

The own pages follow the life of a production order. You create the order (item, family or sales order as source, with quantities and dates), then record consumption, output, scrap and run time. This can be done in the Production Journal for one order, or in batch journals for consumption and for output and run times. Capacity journals cover work center or machine center time outside production orders. When the order is done, finished production order costs are calculated and adjusted. Reversal pages cover mistakes.

Two subtopics go deeper. Subcontracting covers delegating operations to vendors. Manufacturing analytics covers the Power BI Manufacturing app, built-in reports and capacity load analysis.

Key points

  • Production orders are created with a header (source type item, family or sales order), production lines, quantities and due dates. Lines can be copied from existing orders, and orders can be refreshed when requirements change.
  • Consumption can be flushed automatically or posted manually. Batch post consumption can also calculate component usage.
  • The Production Journal registers consumption, output, scrap and operation time for a released order in one place.
  • Batch post output and run times records quantities, setup and run time, with scrap and stop codes.
  • Scrap can be posted manually in the output journal with scrap quantity and reason codes.
  • Capacity journals record work or machine center time outside production orders, such as maintenance.
  • A production order must have finished status before its costs can be adjusted.
  • Transactions can be reversed: consumption, output and subcontracting receipts can be undone, finished orders reopened, or finished without output with WIP write-off.

Subtopics

More Learn pages

  • About finished production order costs: Learn how finished production orders reconcile material, capacity, subcontracting, overhead, work-in-process, inventory, and variances.
  • About production orders: Learn about production orders, and how to use them to manage the conversion of purchased materials into manufactured items.
  • Batch post consumption: Learn how to manually record component usage for one or more production order lines and reduce the related inventory quantities.
  • Batch post production output and run times: Learn how to post completed quantities, scrap, setup time, and run time for one or more released production orders.
  • Create production orders: Learn how to manually create a firm planned production order that brings together items, quantities, dates, components, operations, and capacity.
  • Manufacturing overview: Explore manufacturing capabilities for planning, capacity, production, costing, quality management, subcontracting, and analytics.
  • Post capacities: Learn how to record time used by work and machine centers for maintenance or other activities outside production orders.
  • Post scrap manually: Learn how to record scrap quantities and reason codes by production operation without increasing finished output.
  • Register consumption output for a production order: Learn how to record component consumption, finished quantities, scrap, and operation time together for a released production order.
  • Reverse and correct production order transactions: Learn how to reverse consumption, output, or capacity transactions on production orders, finish orders without output, and reopen finished orders.

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