Sage 100

Anyone know how to change the setting for Issue Method on the Auto Generate Work Orders task in MRP? Seems like this should be straight-forward, but no matter how I configure the module setup this field is greyed out and defaulted to Manual. I need to get this set to Backflush, which is the default issue method assigned in WO Setup. The Help file implies that this field should be configurable at runtime and deafult based on module options, but I'm not seeing it.

in work order options, set ""Auto Issue Material Transactions"" to YES or ""Available Quantity Only

I knew this had to be something straightforward. Here's my problem: the client doesn't actually want to backflush material quantities; they want all transactions manually entered. The reason we need Backflush issue method is to get the cost accounting correct for partial WO completions. All work orders are currently being created with the auto generate utility.

@DebThomas ????

The system will only backflush qtys not issued manually. It will mean that you should zero qtys that they intentionally do not use.

I'm doing some transactions in a test company, and it seems like anytime I do a completion entry a corresponding material issue transaction is created for the entire amount on the BoM. Doesn't matter if I have already issued material manually or not. Am I missing something? Using v4.5

That's correct, with backflush it will create the material issue upon completion; if you've already issued the materials and then update you'd be over-issued. You can delete the automatically generated material issue though before updating.

Something can't help but go horribly wrong in this situation. Users should not have to remember to delete automatically generated transactions from every work order. The real problem here is that the cost accounting methodology is based on the issue method. Why would anyone do this???