Production - Order

Menu Selection: Document - Production - Order

Purpose

This document allows the user to produce items into stock, without them being sold immediately.

Prerequisites

The process required to produce this product must have been established in the LILAC database via the Production - Process Specification document. 

The products to be manufactured into must be have been created via the Stock - Account document.

Context

This document allows products to be manufactured into stock. When an item is sold, LILAC will automatically manufacture the item into stock (if it is not in stock), before selling it. This document would not typically be used when manufacturing items into stock, to be sold out immediately.

A typically scenario for this document is when you are manufacturing items from raw materials.

If the Simple BOM Production feature setting is set to Y in the company data, then you will see a Register and Complete button. If the field is blank, you will see a Work Order button.

About This Screen

Head of the Document
Field Enterable? Instructions
Process Yes Type in the process specification key (to search, click the right mouse button or strike the F12 key).
Production No Yes Type in the production order number. If you leave this field blank, and strike the Enter key to go past it, LILAC will automatically assign a production order number.
Date Yes Type in the date the production order was created. This field defaults to the working date.
Key No Displays the street address key for the company in which the products will be produced into stock.
Ship Date Yes Type in the expected date that this production order will be completed.
Carrier Yes Type in the carrier if the items need to be couriered.
Weight No Displays the weight in kilograms of the production order. This is calculated by totalling the weight for each of the lines. The total for each line is calculated by multiplying the weight in the Stock - Account by the Quantity.
Total No Displays the total value of stock to produced.

Lines of the Document
Items Yes Type in the number of items to be produced into stock.
Product Code Yes Type in the product key (to search, click the right mouse button or strike the F12 key).
Description Yes This field will automatically displays the product description. Overtype this field if necessary.

If producing meat into stock, type in the quantities for each pack separated by a single space.
Quantity No Displays the quantity that will be produced into stock.

If producing meat into stock (that is, in the Stock - Account the Unit is PK and the Per is KG) then the value of this field is calculated by adding up the quantities specified in the Description field.

If the Unit field is M and the Per is T in the Stock - Account, then the Quantity field is calculated by Items * Weight / 1000.

Otherwise the quantity field should be the same as the Items field.
Unit No Displays the unit of measure for this product.
Cost Yes This field automatically displays the standard cost for the product. Overtype this field if necessary.
Value No Displays the value for this line. This is calculated by multiplying the Quantity by the Cost.
Items Made Yes Type in the number of items to be confirmed. This will default to be the same value as the Items field.
Work Ordered No Displays the number of items taken to work order. This field is only usefully when the Simple BOM Production feature setting is blank in the company data.
Confirmed No Displays the number of items which have been confirmed.
Cancelled No Displays the number of items which have been cancelled.

Transaction Processing

Button Description
Register This button is only shown if the Simple BOM Production feature setting is set to Y in the company data. Clicking the Register button will make the stock as In Production in the Stock - Account document.
Complete This button is only shown if the Simple BOM Production feature setting is set to Y in the company data. Clicking the Complete button will produce the items into stock. The In Production field will be decremented by the value in the Items field. Two ledger entries will be created. The first will be in the INVENTORY Ledger in the Product account. The other will be in the TRADING ledger, MANUFACTURE account and the Product Group sub account.
Work Order This button is only shown if the Simple BOM Production feature setting is blank in the company data. Clicking the Work Order button will create a Sales - Work Order document.

From Here

If the Simple BOM Production feature setting is blank in the company data, you must continue the manufacturing process via the Sales - Work Order document.