Not enough stock for production order

ERPNext Manufacturing
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When I create a production order and click start it will create a new stock entry for a Material Transfer for Manufacture. If I click submit but not enough stock is available I get a error/note saying I don’t have enough stock in my warehouse. Does the system have a way to create a linked/associated Material Request for the missing items to the Stock Entry or Production order? Or do I have to do it manually?

2

Hi @Nathan,

  • You can create either Purchase receipt OR Material Receipt for that missing items
  • Then you can create stock entry for a Material Transfer for Manufacture.
3

Hi @shraddha, thanks for your reply. Sorry, I should have mentioned that not enough stock is correct. So a material request to create do a purchase should be the next step. But it seems like I have to do that manually? and that the purchase order or material request is not associated with the production order?

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Hi,
Yes ,You need to create first ‘material request’ manually. (link that material request in production form)
-On production form, select that “Material Request”.

  • submit production order
  • Then make purchase order against that ‘Material Request’
  • Make Purchase receipt against that PO
  • then start your Production order
5

that sounds a little backwards especially if the production order is created from a sales order.

a normal business operations would be:

  1. create new sales order
  2. if enough stock then do a delivery note else if not enough stock then create production order
  3. if enough raw material then start production order else if not enough raw material then create a purchase order

I can accept how erpNext has material request in between some of the steps but what you just described is different. can you explain?

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Granted that I have a LOT to learn about ERPNext, but I agree with Nathan on the way the process should work. Sales order or manual production order (build to inventory) should drive a stock check, which then drives production orders for missing stock, and ultimately purchase orders to supply those production orders. Everything should be driven from the top down.

If I understand the process that Shraddha described, the initial Sales/Production order merely lets you know what you need to do manually, sort of from the bottom up. I evidently need to go read some more documentation…