I am attempting to understand how time sheets and entering time on Production orders in manufacturing is supposed to work.
In a manufacturing environment, operators will usually note time against production orders, but they will also submit time sheets on a weekly basis.
I've no problem understanding that labour is input on Production orders. The problem comes when timesheets are submitted. So timesheets are submitted, let's say, on a weekly basis and form payroll costs. Timesheets have posting groups set up against them. So you have a full week of costs for a timesheet on your balance sheet, and you've also got labour cost for the production order on the balance sheet as well. A user has the ability on their timesheet to assign their time against a production order. Thus, is there not the ability to be recording time and labour incorrectly. Is payroll contra entry is at month-end a normal way of mitigating against this.
I've seen it mentioned in some forums that the manufacturing setup in Business Central has inbuilt controls on variance account setup that mitigates this but unsure how this would work. Maybe it would just flag up as large variances on a production order.
