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Set up manufacturing

Setting up manufacturing in Business Central: manufacturing setup parameters, work centers and machine centers, shop calendars, routings, production BOMs, flushing methods, lot sizes, batch units of measure, production families, and subcontracting. It answers how-to-configure questions before production planning and execution.

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Overview

This section covers the master data and settings needed before production orders can be planned and run. It starts with the general manufacturing setup page, then moves to the resources (work centers, machine centers, shop calendars and work shifts) and the definitions of what is produced (production BOMs, routings, standard tasks).

Further pages cover how production behaves: component flushing methods, lot size handling on routing lines and items, manufacturing batch units of measure, and production families that produce several items together from a shared process.

A separate group of pages covers subcontracting: assigning work centers to vendors, setting subcontracting locations and transfer routes, and storing subcontractor prices. A practical order is to begin with “Configure manufacturing processes”, then set up calendars and work centers, then BOMs and routings, and add the specialized topics as needed.

Key points

  • The manufacturing setup page holds parameters such as normal work hours, preset output quantity, consumption calculation, capacity unit of measure and cost calculation.
  • Shop calendars are built from work shifts, working days and holidays, and the work center and machine center calendars are then calculated from them.
  • Production BOMs support status and certification, versioning, scrap percentages, routing link codes, phantom BOMs and calculation formulas.
  • Routings define operations with setup and run time, and support serial and parallel operations and send-ahead quantity.
  • Flushing methods include manual, forward and back flushing by operation or entire order, and Pick + Forward, which control when consumption is posted.
  • Lot sizes on routing lines and items affect cost allocation, run time calculation and supply planning.
  • Subcontracting needs vendor locations, transfer routes (transfer-from, transfer-to, in-transit, direct transfer) and subcontractor prices by vendor, work center or standard task with minimum quantity and amount.
  • Batch units of measure let you produce in a different unit than the stocked unit, and production families group items for one family production order.

Learn pages

  • Configure manufacturing processes: To convert material into produced end items, production resources, such as bills of material, routings, machine operators, and machinery must be set up in the system.
  • Create production BOMs: Learn how to create a production bill of material (BOM), new versions of a production BOM, and how to use the quantity calculation formula.
  • Create routings: This article gives an overview of the different ways to create routings including prerequisites required and how to create routing links.
  • Flush components according to operation output: This article describes how to flush components according to operation output and other flushing methods involved.
  • Handling Lot Sizes: This topic describes different ways to handle lot sizes.
  • Set up locations for subcontracting: Learn how to configure subcontracting locations on vendor cards and set up transfer routes between your warehouse and subcontractor locations.
  • Set Up Shop Calendars: Learn how to define shifts, working time, holidays, and absences for accurate production capacity calculations and resource load.
  • Set Up Standard Tasks for Operations: Learn about how to set up standard tasks and add standard tasks to operations to simplify the maintenance of routings.
  • Set up subcontracting: Learn how to connect outsourced production operations with vendors, work centers, comments, components, purchasing, locations, transfers, and costs.
  • Set up subcontractor prices: Learn how to set up and maintain subcontractor prices for work centers, including copying prices between vendors and filtering options.
  • Set up work centers and machine centers: Learn how to set up work and machine centers to represent production resources, capacity, efficiency, calendars, and costs.
  • Use the manufacturing batch units of measure: Learn how to calculate production components when an item is stocked in one unit of measure but produced in another.
  • Work with Production Families in Manufacturing: Learn how to group items that share a manufacturing process so you can produce them together and reduce material scrap and repeated setup work.

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