Manufacturing: Grouping Work Centers into Manufacturing Departments

In a busy production environment, you often need a clear way to look at resources by production area rather than having to review each work center one by one.

In MYOB Acumatica 2026.1.1, you can group work centers into manufacturing departments. A manufacturing department represents a broad production area, such as welding or assembly, within a warehouse and may include multiple work centers.

After you define departments for a specific warehouse and assign work centers to them, you can filter the list of work centers by department to display only the resources that belong to a particular production area. This gives you a clearer, more structured way to organize and navigate your work centers.

Defining Manufacturing Departments and Assigning Work Centers

You can use the new Manufacturing Departments (AM217000) form, shown below, to create manufacturing departments for a specific warehouse and maintain the list of assigned work centers.

Figure 1. The Manufacturing Departments form


To assign a work center to a manufacturing department, you have two options:

  • On the Manufacturing Departments (AM217000) form, open a department and add an unassigned work center to the Work Centers table.
  • Use the new Manufacturing Department box on the Work Centers (AM207000) form to assign the current work center to an existing department, as shown below.
Figure 2. The new box on the Work Centers form


To review all existing departments in a single list, you can use the new Manufacturing Departments (AM2170PL) list of records, which displays manufacturing departments in a table with their key details, as shown below.

Figure 3. The Manufacturing Departments list form


Added Visibility into Work Centers and Manufacturing Departments

These enhancements let you easily see how work centers relate to manufacturing departments:

  • On the Work Centers (AM2070PL) form, the new Manufacturing Department column shows the department assigned to each work center.

    You can use the column’s standard filtering capabilities to quickly focus on work centers that belong to a particular department.

  • In the Bills of Material workspace, the new Work Centers category groups together forms related to work centers, as shown below.
Figure 4. New category in the Bills of Material workspace


Limitations

In this release, the manufacturing departments you create in the system are not yet involved in production reporting, planning, or scheduling.

However, you can use manufacturing departments in custom generic inquiries and dashboards to provide more granular visibility for production analysis.