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## Production documents posting.

The most important element of costing is the production documents, if they are the only ones costed. 

Production documents posting can be executed either using, or not using Consumption slips and Production slips.

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In documents, field "Stage" indicates that when the order is "outstanding" only Expected/reserved are updated and when the order is "processed" it creates Inventory transactions and nullifies the expected-reserved.

The production document updates inventory with the quantity of products produced. Therefore, in the series type of the production document, in the main product and in the consumption transaction only quantity update is selected. The update with a price, that is the product cost shall be executed through costing job. 

 

In case Cost accounting is not used, or in case the operator does not wish the costing data to receive a balance from 92*, then he must set the cost value in the production document, by "typing" the corresponding amount in the specific costing data. This amount shall be used in all production documents and thus it is not necessary to be entered in each production document - otherwise respective units must be specified.

## Consumption slips - Production Slips 

The consumption and production slips are used in order to post separately the production consumptions and quantities, always in accordance with the bill of materials set in the application, so that the creation of production documents is executed as the second step using a specific task.

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After posting the consumption and production slips, you must run job "Documents from slips" (menu: Production - Automations / old menu: Production - Jobs). 

This job creates the production document and is necessary because these production documents are costed at the next step of the production costing job. 

 

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In case it is necessary to post slips, you must select the location of the consumption and production transactions. That is, either from the consumption and production slips, or from the production document (it is recommended to use the production document). 

This method requires careful and strict compliance with the consumption quantities of Raw materials in the consumption slips, based on the bill of materials and the quantities in products, because otherwise, during production documents creation, various error messages may occur (see Below). 

 

In case you have run job "Documents from slips" and you have created the production document using wrong transactions, in order to correct this, you must delete the specific document, because even if you correct slips and run the job again a new document will be created but the old one wont be corrected. Thus, if you run production costing while you have not deleted the production document with the wrong consumptions, the costing data arising shall be wrong too. 

 

Possible error messages:

- Item participating in the bill of materials but not on the consumption slip.
- Item of the consumption slip with wrong quantities ratio based on the bill of materials.
- Item of the consumption slip for which there are no corresponding products.
- There is a remainder of product consumption and there are no products available.
- Item of the production slip for which there are no consumptions.
- A product remains and there are no consumptions for it, either because no consumptions were posted with the required quantities, or because the ones posted were not sufficient.

 

Attention!

In case you use production orders, the selection of production documents creation must be very careful, i.e. either from job "Documents from slips", or using the Orders.