Registered users with MISys support have access to the MISys Customer Service and Support page. If a technical issue comes up that requires the assistance of MISys technical support, simply login to the MISys Web site and click the help desk icon.

If many Shop Operations need to be processed, the time taken to open and click the Shop Operations icon in each Manufacturing order can be time consuming. To reduce the overall time, MISys has provided a short cut that opens the Process Shop Operations interface.

If you currently use the MISys Import Function to update standard costs, or master files —> you probably come across the “unresolved” contents error and have to select each one and set to default.

A new Bill of Material provides cost for a single build unit, but how about large volumes where economies of scale would factor in? One solution is to use inactive manufacturing orders to simulate those costs because the setup for an MO operation is amortized over the volume of parts per setup.

We have seen that Sage 300 2021 is installing a newer Crystal Reports runtime that appears to cause issues with applications that are using an older version of the Crystal Reports runtime.

The Items view of the Supply Schedule can be very useful and provides a representation of the Purchase Order Supply Schedule listed by item. This view groups the same items together from all open Purchase Orders.

Another great representation of the Purchase Order Supply Schedule is the Purchase Orders view. This view is useful to see the specific details within an open Purchase Order. Click Purchasing/Supply Schedule to open the Supply Schedule and select Purchase Orders at the top right corner. All Open Purchase Order detail lines will list as Gantt bars in the time horizon.

Many MISys Manufacturing users are familiar with the Visual Production Schedule used for assembly replenishment, it provides a great view of open production orders at a glance. Like the Production Schedule, but seemingly less known is the Visual Supply Schedule that shows Purchased Item replenishment.

When processing a SLT transaction in MISys, occasionally a situation may come up when the Serial or Lot number is not known or not readily available at the time the transaction takes place.

If you have users on the floor using MISys EXT with handheld devices, and no actual access to a desktop to do stock look ups – you may have noticed that MISys EXT doesn’t have a “stock inquiry feature”. To get around this, there are a couple of options. Last post reviewed using dashboard alerts to retrieve stock information in MISys EXT. This post will use a blanket physical inventory batch to help users with lookups!

MISys Manufacturing – with release V6.4.5, MISys now supports Calculated Fields in Dashboard Alerts.

If you have users on the floor using MISys EXT with handheld devices, and no actual access to a desktop to do stock look ups – you may have noticed that MISys EXT doesn’t have a “stock inquiry feature”. To get around this, there are a couple of options. The first, is through use of a Dashboard Alert!