Settings / General settings if your ERP system is Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Produce / Manager offers a number of settings that will influence the behavior of the application. These options are grouped on various tabs of the Settings page that you can access by clicking on your profile image in the top right corner of the screen and selecting Settings from the dropdown menu.

By default, the Settings page opens on the General settings tab which allows you to choose the material issuing method.

Issue materials in Produce / Operator

Select here the Issue materials in Produce / Operator box (the default setting) if shop floor operators should be able to issue materials directly when they register their work. In this case, all materials will be issued in Produce / Operator, except the items that

• are backflushed in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central,
• you list in the Exceptions section,
• belong to an item group that is listed in the Exceptions section, or
• according to the production order, should be picked from the warehouse(s) that you list in the Exceptions section.

Thus the operator can issue any item except those that are backflushed in Business Central or are matched by the exceptions.

Exceptions can be combined into complex logical expressions using the condition builder.

Do not issue materials in Produce / Operator

Select the Do not issue materials in Produce / Operator box if it is normally not shop floor operators who issue materials in your company, but it is the responsibility of another department, e.g. logistics. When selecting this option, no materials can be issued in Produce / Operator, except the items that

• you list in the Exceptions section (unless they are backflushed in Business Central),
• belong to an item group that is listed in the Exceptions section, or
• according to the production order, should be picked from the warehouse(s) that you list in the Exceptions section.

In other words, the operator can only issue items that are not backflushed in Business Central and are matched by the exceptions.

Exceptions can be combined into complex logical expressions using the condition builder.

The condition builder

The condition builder allows you to create complex expressions in the Exceptions section for both material issuing options.

Use AND and/or OR operators to specify the conditions that an item, item group or warehouse specified for an item in the production order needs to meet in order for the exception to take effect. Clicking on the + sign allows you to add a new condition or a new group of conditions connected by an AND or an OR operator. A condition can refer to an item, an item group, or a warehouse. Each of these elements can be associated with (required to be equal to or not equal to) a value to be selected from a drop-down list.

Take the example below:

This translates into the following condition: "If the item is Officeprint 1111 AND it does not come from the Bin Warehouse AND the item is Rainbow Color Printer 5.0 or Motherboard BTX ".