General ledger and manufacturing integration
Production control is integrated with features in other modules. This interconnectivity lets you change production orders and ensures that they're automatically updated in all other related processes and calculations in the system. This unit focuses on the general ledger settings.
You should set up information in other modules before you can work with Production control. This setup includes the following tasks:
Set up general company information.
Set up the general ledger.
Define item groups.
Set up ledger accounts for item groups.
Set up the Inventory item table in inventory management.
Create bills of materials (BOMs) and BOM versions in inventory management.
Production order ledger settings determine how production order transactions are posted in the ledger for items and work in process. They also determine the costing of the production order.
You can use the All production orders page to define ledger settings. To do so, go to Production control > Production orders > All production orders, select the production order number, and then select the Setup tab.
Choose a setting from the following options in the Ledger field:
Item and Resource - The posting of item consumption is as specified on the Item group page. Operations resource consumption posting is based on the value on the Resources and the Resource groups pages.
Item and Category - The posting of item consumption is as specified on the Item group page. Operations resource consumption posting is based on the value on the Cost categories page. The system attaches a cost category to an operation in the route, and when you create a production order, the system copies it to the current production.
Production groups - When you specify this ledger setting, you need to assign a production group to the production order on the Production groups page. Afterward, the system posts item consumption and resource consumption exclusively to the ledger accounts that are specified in the assigned production group.
You can change the production order's ledger setting. This setting displays on the All production orders page on the Setup tab if the order doesn't have the Reported as finished status. If the production posts physical values, that is, if the item has an inventory model group in which the Post physical value is set, you can't change the ledger posting after part of the production finishes.
Default ledger settings
You can define a ledger setting as your default value on the Production control parameters page. To do so, go to Production control > Setup > Production control parameters > General tab and select the setting in the Ledger posting field. The system automatically assigns the default value to all subsequent production orders that users create from a sales order line, master planning, or sub production orders.
Additionally, when you manually create a production order on the Create production order page, the value in the Ledger field prepopulates with the default value. You can override it by selecting another value from the list of options.