Experience improved usability in manufacturing

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Users, automatically	-	Apr 1, 2025

Business value

Productivity increases when processes are easy, so we've improved the usability of several areas within manufacturing. We've made it faster to get to information. We’ve added fields, actions, and FactBoxes to several pages, and confirmation dialogs help you avoid mistakes when you process production BOMs and routings, and print in bulk.

Feature details

The Component – Item FactBox on the Production Order Component page provides insights about an item and its availability when you view or edit the list of components in a production order.

Change production order statuses in bulk

The Change Production Order Status page lets you change the status of multiple orders in one go. Now, you can use a similar capability on list pages for the following types of orders:

• Simulated production orders
• Planned production orders
• Firm planned production orders
• Released production orders

You can select one or more production orders, and choose the Change Status action.

Note

A confirmation dialog with additional questions displays for each order individually. If there are multiple orders with partial output or consumption, confirm each one separately.

If the status of orders can't change, they're skipped. The Error Message page shows the skipped orders and the reasons.

Print the Production Order - Comp. and Routing report for selected orders.

Select one or more orders and choose Production Order - Comp. and Routing to run the report. The Print and Preview actions show details for selected orders.

The report is available on the following pages:

• Planned Production Orders
• Firm Planned Production Orders
• Released Production Orders

Note

The selected records pass to the report as Marked. The report request page can't display these types of filters, so it appears as if no filters are applied.

Print multiple production orders created from a planning worksheet

When you process lines in a planning worksheet, you can print more than one firm planned order.

Tip

• The Prod. Order option on the Report Selection - Production Order page determines which report to print. The default report is 99000762 Prod. Order - Job Card.
• If your production orders lack routing lines or you prefer a more compact report, consider switching to the 5500 Prod. Order Comp. and Routing report.

We'd like to thank our community for your valuable contributions to Microsoft’s open source BusinessCentralApps repo on GitHub.

Edit in Excel on the Standard Cost Worksheet page

One reason the Edit in Excel feature in Business Central is so popular is that it provides a fast way to enter data. You can now use the Edit in Excel action on the Standard Cost Worksheet page.

Edit routing link code in the Production routing lines page

You might discover that the original routing is no longer feasible and you want to adjust it. You can now edit the Routing link code field, so you can not only add new routing steps, but also make sure that components are linked to it.

A warning displays if you select the same routing link code on more than one routing lines.

Default General Business Posting Group for assembly and production orders

You can define the general posting group to use by default for new production orders by specifying the value in the Default General Business Posting Group field on the Manufacturing Setup page. Remember to update entries on the General posting setup page accordingly. For assembly orders, a similar setting is available on the Assembly Setup page.

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