Period Closing Tasks

There is no closing procedure for production management itself but because of its integration with inventory and general ledger functional areas there are processes that should be completed before closing the integrated modules.

Release Production Transaction Batches

There could be transactions that have been entered but not released. Their status can be Balanced or On Hold.

• To process balanced batches
  • The Release AM Documents (AM503000) form lists all of the transaction batches that have a status of Balanced. You can open the batch from this form to review the data and release the batch from the form or just select the batches to process.
• To find batches on hold, do the following:
  • Use the Production Batch Register (AM622000) report and add the AMBatch.Status = On Hold filter on the Additional Filtering Conditions tab.
    Tip:

    If you are looking for all unreleased transactions, you can add a second line to the report filter Or AMBatchStatus = Balanced.
  • Use the Transactions By Production Order (AM000011) report to find the all of the unreleased batches.

Close Production Orders

Closing completed production order zeros out the WIP balance and generates a WIP adjustment transaction on the WIP Adjustment (AM308000) form. The Close Production Orders (AM506000) form lists the production orders that have been completed. Any order with a significant WIP Balance should be reviewed to determine if transactions were not posted or there have been data entry errors. A production order cannot be closed if it is in an unreleased transaction batch. Even if a production order has a status of Completed, additional transactions may be entered to correct the actuals.