When using MISys Manufacturing with QuickBooks as the accounting software – it is important to remember that each user needs to have their permissions pre-defined within QuickBooks in order to effectively post the three types of transactions that affect the GL àSales Transfers, PO Invoicing & Period Ends.

Quick note for those of you who occasionally need to use MISys with only yourself in the system – you know, Period Ends – Posting Inventory Batches – doing Backups. 

This post deals with Manufacturing Quality Records and if you answered ‘No’, then hopefully your company does have an ISO Quality Management or GMP Good Manufacturing Practice program in place.!  : )

Are you running MISys 6.4.0.0?

Users that are running MISys version 6.4 and need to install MISys for a new user or re-install MISys may get the an error.

If data isn’t purged from time to time, you might find yourself looking at a long list of old information when pulling up the grid view for things like Manufacturing Orders or Purchase Orders. Read this blog post to see how to filter the information you see in Grid View in MISys Manufacturing Software.

I was talking to Normita recently and she was commenting on how crazy it was driving her that her Manufacturing Orders didn’t seem to be in alphabetical order anymore.  I thought that if Normita was running into this then others probably were as well.

Great manufacturing software is built upon a well-engineered data framework. MISys Manufacturing Software has a range of master tables that include: Items, Bills of Material, Suppliers, Locations, and Workcenters. Let’s have a look at the Item Master table.

Most of the transactions that accumulate in the Master Transaction Log have accounting implications which must be transferred to your accounting system's General Ledger. By running the Period End function, you create subledger journal entries for all the unposted transactions in the Master Transaction Log depending on the General Ledger feed option selected in the MISys Company Options.

If you are a MISys Manufacturing Software user and you cannot look up parts by the number that the manufacturer uses, this post will help you .

For those in the MISys Manufacturing Software community who are using Sage 50 Canada and are keeping current with payroll, here’s a quick bit of information for you.

Your MISys costing method is FIFO or LIFO and you have multiple locations setup in MISys. You receive an item on a PO into MISys. You then move the inventory to another location (site) in MISys. Then you find out that you need to return the item back to vendor but MISys give you an error when you try …

A lot of companies working with MISys will have the same item in more than one place in their warehouse. When the time comes for those companies to do a physical inventory they can give a count sheet to each of the staff doing the counting, and enter a batch …