When Routed Operations are synchronized to the introduction of Components, a ‘Bill of Material’ becomes a ‘Bill of Manufacturing’.

With larger Bills of Manufacturing, it can be challenging to visualize the relationship of operations, and into which operations components are being introduced into.

When building a Materials Management strategy from a forecast, a great way to view the output of MRP simulations is by running ‘Purchasing Advice’ and ‘Production Advice’. Enter the Master Production Schedule number for each simulated MPS run as shown below and run the report.

If you have serial or lot tracking enabled in your MISys database, a quick and easy way to look up those items and the associated serial or lot numbers is to review them in the stock control menu.

Manufacturing leaders are always interested in gaining more visibility about the future because visibility helps define strategy. For the Materials and Production Management leads, creating future strategy such as for the next quarter can be really challenging because it involves finding ways to accurately refine various sales forecast scenarios into the time phased material and production demands.

If you have serial or lot tracking enabled in your MISys database, you may notice that there are discrepancies between your master stock quantity and your total lot stock quantity; or that history of lot tracking has a few gaps. A critical area to review when using serial and lot tracking is the Assign Serial Lot Numbers section of stock control.

When investigating transactions, a handy report to know about is the Master Transaction Log. The log can be run with a variety of parameter settings (below) and can be exported to excel for additional analysis.

If you have gone through the stage of recording an inventory snapshot (as shown in previous post) – the next stage is to load that inventory snapshot into a physical inventory batch.

MISys provides users with the capability of recording a snapshot of current inventory levels (stock, wip, reserve). These recorded inventory levels are then used in determining the variance between inventory and the physical counts.

When a subassembly can be either built internally or purchased from a supplier, MISys MRP provides a way for the materials planner to make that decision each time MRP is run.

Component shortages on manufacturing orders are flagged in Yellow (refer to line 8 below). For any shortages that have approved alternates set up, the alternates can be substituted by clicking either ‘Substitute Alternates for All Shortages’, or ‘Substitute Alternates for Selected Material’.

A Client ran into the following error:

"QuickBooks Interface Error: A QuickBooks company data file is already open and it is different from the one requested or there are multiple company files open"

Often times when posting a period end, there are transactions in MISys that are dated in a locked fiscal period in the accounting package. This tends to happen a lot more around month or year ends, where receiving, invoicing or transfer transactions are back dated.