Product Configurator: Production Management Integration

Production orders are used to build the configured product. The production order can be created directly from a sales order, as described in Production Processing: Production for Sales, or directly by using the Production Order Maintenance (AM201500) form. Production orders can also be created by using the MRP Display (AM400000) form or Critical Materials (AM401000) form. However, they will only contain the template bill of material and must be configured by using the Configuration Entry (AM306000) form that can be accessed by clicking the Configure button on the References tab of the Production Order Maintenance form.

You can plan bills of material, as described in Bills of Material: Planning BOMs, for configure to order (CTO) inventory items.

The following diagram displays how production orders are integrated with the order management functionality and other parts of Acumatica ERP Manufacturing Edition.

Figure 1. Relations between production orders and other entities and documents

The process of creating production order combines the template bill of material with the material options selected during the configuration process. As with standard bills of material, a material option can be a phantom and accordingly the components of the phantom replace the phantom in the production order details and optionally insert the operations of the phantom.