Production Cost Drivers: Cost and Efficiency Anomalies

In MYOB Acumatica, you can use generic inquiries combined with AI-powered anomaly detection to highlight potential anomalies early—before they become costly problems.

These generic inquiries help you monitor:

• Material costs
• Labor time
• Production totals
• Employee efficiency

For information about the configuration and use of anomaly detection, see Detecting Anomalies in Generic Inquiries.

Generic Inquiries

MYOB Acumatica contains the following generic inquiries specifically designed to use anomaly detection in manufacturing:

• Production Total Variance (AM0018ML): Get a complete picture of cost variances per production order, so you can review exceptions before period-end and correct discrepancies quickly.
• Production Labor Variance (AM0024ML): Identify discrepancies in labor time and cost to catch inaccurate reporting or outdated BOM estimates.
• Production Material Variance (AM0025ML): Analyze material cost deviations between planned and actual values for WIP and completed production orders—broken down by operation.
• Production Employee Efficiency (AM0030ML): Compare actual performance across employees doing the same operations, enabling fair evaluation and targeted coaching without over-adjusting BOM labor times.

Each inquiry:

• Works with In Process, Completed, Locked, and Closed production orders
• Includes only operations with completed quantities

Recommended Settings

By default, anomaly detection is not enabled for these generic inquiries. In the out-of-the-box product, they appear with the Detect Anomalies check box cleared on the Generic Inquiry (SM208000) form. This is because the system currently supports anomaly detection for no more than 10 generic inquiries at a time.

We recommend the following settings for the Field for Analysis box and the Data Field column of the table in the Grouping section on the Anomaly Detection tab of the Generic Inquiry form.