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Automate Production Order End with Standard Cost

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Posted on by FAC.Ansel 1,632

I have a request to automate the Ending of Production Orders that do not have a variance.  Without customization, does this exist in AX? 

More specifically, the users currently have to review all Production orders individually to check that there is no variance.  If no variance exists, then the Production order is Ended.  If a variance does exist, then the Production order is reviewed and corrected, then Ended.

I know that it is possible to run the End function as a batch job, but it does not have selection criteria for verifying the cost.

I just want to make sure there isn't something standard that I can use before I start making a customization.  Thanks!

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    Ludwig Reinhard Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi,

    Why is a correction made if variances exist? Isn't the idea of standard costs to get those variances recorded in order to analyze them to identify for example weaknesses in the production process?

    If you are not interested in the variances, why hasn't a current valuation method been selected?

    Best regards,

    Ludwig

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    FAC.Ansel 1,632 on at

    Ludwig,

    Thank you for the reply.  In this case, the variance does not indicate an issue with the production process as much as it indicates a mistake made by a user that needs to be corrected.  In other words, the typical production mistakes are over posting production or not posting materials to the production order.  

    It is pretty easy to find the issue and would be easy to automate with a percentage because minor variances are typical, but large variances indicate production posting mistakes that need correcting.

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    Ludwig Reinhard Microsoft Employee on at

    Aha. Thank you for this explanation. But isn't your problem related to a more detailed and through training of the production posting? If you always adjust "wrong" production orders from "behind" things might not get better but worse in the future. Best regards, Ludwig

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    guk1964 10,888 on at

    The possible logic flaw in your requirement is when will the system make the decision - how will it know that you have competed RAF and that you did not decide to over-make by another 10?   Just because there is no variance i.e. I picked all the components to the order and there is no variance, does not mean that I did not waste some materials and have not yet booked those.

    If you usually manufacture without variance, and its not possible to make e.g. a bicycle without the wheels even if you forgot to issue those,  then you might consider forward, or backward flushing for some orders. Then there will be no variances.

    Any known variances can then be added manually during the order.

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