Anyone using full traceability during production plan?

Good day

Someone asked me if ERPNExt has full traceability during production run. So I set out to prove
that it does.

Created items with serial n ( product and raw material).

Created simple BOM … prod consists of two items ( work station + operation)
Ensured that “Make serial nr from WO” is ticked in manufacturing settings.
Initiated SO
Created PP linked to SO
From WO … created Ser no for Product
During Stock Entry selected ser no’s for items
Completed JC
Completed WO
Completed Stock Entry
PP completed

Traceability …
SO linkes to WO
And on links section there is link to Serial No’s
But this link only has one serial nr for product : not for items.

To link the serial No’s for the items to the WO, I have to manually enter the WO-nr in the
Serial No for the item.

Surely this should happen automatically?

And this then gives full traceability
From the SO you can pick up the Wo. Then you can pick up all Ser No’s
And from the Serial No’s you can pick up the actual items and who performed the
purchase receipt of that item via Quality check. You can also pick up who completed the JC.
And who did the final QC for product.

This will work great, except the WO entry into the item-ser-no that does not happen
automatically.

Am I doing something wrong?
If someone can please assist me. I would like to make a video and send to this person to show
that ERPNext has full traceability !!

Or if there is someething that I can do to fix the automatic population of the WO -field in
Ser-No for items. a Simple “Doc link” is not going to work because there may be more than
one of a particular item.

Please can someone assist?

2 Likes

it would be much better to understand if the post is using Work Order instead of WO and such. :smiley:

ERPNext does provide complete traceability. If you have a Serialized Item, you can from the stock ledger, get the entire list of transactions that have occurred with the serial number.

A bit of customization and, voila, you can have a report that works for you great.

Having said that it’s easy to turn on traceability on ERPNext. It’s incredibly hard on the shop floor if you do.

Use a minimalistic approach to traceability else you will drive everyone in your organization crazy without being able to demonstrate traceability.

If you expect to achieve traceability on the shop floor without significant investments in Barcode/QR Code readers, printers, android apps and significant investments in integrating these devices with ERPNext. Think again!

Thanks

Jay