Manufacturing: Automatic Backward Reporting

In previous versions of MYOB Acumatica Manufacturing Edition, it was not possible to report quantity completion on production operations out of sequence. If a later operation reported a greater completed quantity than an earlier operation, this quantity was reported back to the earlier operation. That is, backward reporting was always turned on.

A manufacturer whose processes could be performed in a nonsequential order had to rely on shop floor workers to document production transactions (for example, the complete or scrapped quantity) outside MYOB Acumatica. These transactions then had to be entered into the system in sequence for each production order, which could lead to data inaccuracies.

Starting in MYOB Acumatica 2024.1, automatic backward reporting can be turned on or off.

Turning Off Automatic Backward Reporting

In MYOB Acumatica 2024.1, organizations can turn off automatic backward reporting for production orders so that they can accurately report on production operations out of sequence. To provide this capability, a new check box, Automatic Backward Reporting, has been added on the following forms:

  • Production Order Types (AM201100), in the Order Defaults section of the General tab (see the following screenshot). This check box is displayed only if the production order type has the Regular function. By default, the check box is selected.
  • Production Order Maintenance (AM201500), the General tab. The system copies the state of this check box from the Production Order Types form when a new production order of the type is created, but this state can be changed until the production order is released.
Figure 1. The Automatic Backward Reporting check box on the Production Order Types form


If the check box is cleared for a production order on the Production Order Maintenance form, when a user enters the quantity of completed items on the Labor (AM301000) or Move (AM302000) form for an operation, the system records it for the selected operation and not for the preceding operation. Similarly, when a user reports scrap, the system records it only for the selected operation.

For the last operation of a production order, users can report only a quantity that is less than or equal to the minimum quantity reported on preceding control point operations (if control point operations exist before the last operation).

If automatic backward quantity reporting has been turned on for a production order, all operations of that order except control point operations have the new Auto-Report Qty. check box selected on the Operations tab of the Production Order Details (AM209000) form (see the following screenshot). This read-only check box indicates (if selected) that nonsequential reporting is not supported for the operation. By default, the Auto-Report Qty. column is hidden.

Figure 2. The Auto-Report Qty. check box


Other UI Enhancements

The following UI elements have been renamed for greater clarity:

Upgrade Note

After the upgrade to MYOB Acumatica 2024.1, the Automatic Backward Reporting check box is selected on the Production Order Types (AM201100) and Production Order Maintenance (AM201500) forms to preserve the previous system behavior of reporting production order operations in sequential order.