Perpectual (continous) Manufacturing

[Former Member]

Dear Experts,

SAP Business One requires production orders to be released before products can be taken into inventory, is there a way to keep a production order open for continous manufacturing?

We need help in setting up continous manufacturing jobs.

[keith_taylor2 · Accepted solution]

You could create production order for large quantity, set the children items up to backflush and then just report pieces complete. As long as there are no variances there would not be any financial impact. If you ware wanting to manually issue materials this would not work as then you could see variances which would not be realized until you closed the production order.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Not sure if this will help

but I use the be.as manufacturing add-on

in it you can set a "lot size" for production - so that if I create a Production Order for 1000 units and my lot size for production is 10 units - within the Production Order - it will automatically create 100 sub-work orders each with 10 units - and each can be given a different delivery date.

this I have used with companies who would set a single monthly or quarterly production order based on forecasts - and the system auto-divided it into sub-orders under the overall production order.

then we did full reciepts against each sub-order

other options would be the giant production order quantity - and partial receipts - but you lose a lot in capacity planning

just my thoughts

[former_member204969]

The released status of a production order denotes it as active for further transactions.

So you can execute more Receipt from Production and Issue for Production transaction referring to this production order, and can manage (more or less) a continuous production process.

The closing of the production order (which makes it inactive for other transactions) is important only for completing the booking of the production.

[Former Member]

There is Perpetual Inventory concept. Please elaborate your perpetual manufacturing process a little bit more.

Thanks,

Gordon