Period Close, Production Planning and Procurement
Applications → Corporate → Close / Production / Procurement. Administrator access is required.
Period close
- Select the period-end date and choose Check.
- Review stock values, customer balances, open items, the trial balance and production cost. Amounts use the company accounting currency; quantities retain their stock base unit.
- Resolve missing opening costs, negative stock, unposted sources, pending approvals or reconciliation differences in their source screens. A missing value is never treated as zero.
- Both new controls are off by default and can be selected during setup or changed under Settings → Corporate controls. With reconciliation blocking disabled, warnings are saved with the closing record and an administrator may proceed. Enable Block closing on reconciliation differences to require all issues to be resolved. Enter a reason and close the period. The server recalculates the result and rejects changed sources.
A saved checkpoint is immutable. Reopening requires a reason and preserves the original evidence. Reopen later closed periods first. The administrator's period-lock setting remains off by default; when enabled, common stock/customer posting and financial posting paths reject writes into closed checkpoints. With locking disabled, reading a checkpoint detects changed historical sources and displays a warning.
This workflow reconciles existing accounting records. It does not create tax filings, invent missing opening balances or automatically post every historical document. Stock uses moving weighted average; child production costs are not added to their parent a second time.
Saved production plan
- Create production orders and their frozen component/routing definitions using Production.
- Maintain machines and daily working calendars. Use Corporate → Planning and Operations for calendar overrides.
- Select a start date and recalculate all open orders. Child orders are scheduled before parents; shared material is allocated once.
- Review shortages, previous/new completion dates and daily machine minutes. Missing material delivery commitments, routes or active machines leave an order waiting.
- Choose Reserve capacity and material. The plan is saved atomically; stale previews are rejected.
Capacity is scheduled in daily buckets over a two-year horizon. Subsequent operations begin on the following day to avoid assuming unproven intraday ordering. Weekends need explicit calendar capacity. Other orders cannot consume stock allocated to a saved production plan. Production can consume its own allocation. Shortage, forecast, reservation and actual output remain distinct.
Changes to linked procurement delivery dates or accepted receipts recalculate an existing saved plan. After changing machines, calendars or orders, recalculate and save the plan. A planned date is not a change to the customer's contractual delivery promise.
Production-linked procurement
- From a current production preview, create purchase requests for missing raw materials. Existing linked requests are deducted, preventing duplicates. Recipe products require child production orders.
- Use the existing Purchasing workflow to obtain offers and create a real purchase order.
- Choose the order line for the same product and enter the confirmed delivery date. An order quantity cannot be allocated to multiple requests beyond its total.
- Record the normal goods receipt. If Require quality acceptance is enabled, record and accept its quality inspection.
- Select the matching receipt line (and accepted inspection when required), and allocate the received base-unit quantity to production.
Linking a receipt never creates another stock movement. Product, supplier, warehouse, document and remaining quantities are always validated. Quality acceptance is optional by default. When enabled, new links require an accepted inspection; prior links made without that requirement remain valid. The new plan excludes pending/rejected inspection quantities only when this requirement is enabled. Explicit blocked lots and quarantine warehouses remain unavailable regardless of this preference. Recalculate the plan after changing the preference. Linked source documents are protected from replacement/deletion; corrections use their proper business workflows.
The displayed consumed quantity is the actual aggregate consumption of that material by the production order. It is not a claim of lot-level genealogy; use the existing lot traceability screens for that evidence. Cancelling a procurement link does not cancel the supplier's purchase order.