Production Runs

Every production run has a started and completed status button that will co-inside with the started and completed date and time as seen below. These two and the posted status of production is in our opinion the most important. You can manage your production management team by analysing the time between Posted and Started and you can manage the time the production workers take by analysing the time between Started and Completed. This however takes a lot of extra time and should be considered before implementing this kind of management. 

Many companies simple want to open a production run, and with a few simple clicks, complete the production run with all the units from the production order without managing phases. In this case, when the production run is open, click on Copy, Set date and Completed. This will copy the estimate units into the actual units of the production run, set the started and completed date/time to now and Complete and commit the production run. 

Should you wish to do a partial production run you can simply change the output product quantity in the unit column and click copy and the items will be inserted automatically calculated based on the ratio of the unit column with the reduced quantity.

You can access the actual production run via the Production >> Production Runs menu or from the production run popup's view icon. A production run creates stock movements for all the input and output items according to its warehouse on the production run. 

Please see above the IN and OUT direction stock movements for a production run with 421 as the output item and AMSUL and CAN and Bags as the input items. You will notice that bags do not have a stock move. This is because, if you look further up in this document, the run was created with bags on it, but the actual units completed on the bags were zero.  

As you can see further above, the production run has a reversal button on it and when clicked, a reversal can be added to a production run. You may want to reverse all or part of a production run. The reversal allows for this. 

You can see in the above example that the Output items and Input items remain the same in the reversal as the production run above. This is because the reversal is not like creating a production run with the three inputs as an output and the one output as the input. It essentially reverses the production runs setup as is. 

What production run reversals do is simple take the output item and remove it from stock and it puts back the input items. 

Please remember stock leaving business USES the weighted average of stock and stock entering the business (including input items that normally get taken out of stock) AFFECTS stock. So, if your output stock item that has been produced to stock (into stock) changes value between its production run and its production reversal