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Finished Production Orders

Production orders are used to manage the conversion of purchased materials into manufactured items. For more information, see the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central documentation. 

Posting Entity

The following table shows the posting entity used for the General Ledger entries when journal entries for the Manufacturing functionality are posted and when a production order status changes from Released to Completed.

Production Order Posting Entity Table
Item Description Posting Entity
Finished items

The posting entity is based on the Inventory Posting option on the Multi-Entity Management Setup.

  • If Entity from Location is selected, the posting entity is from the location.
  • If Entity from Item is selected, the posting entity is from the item.
Material variance/Capacity variance The posting entity is from the header of the production order.
Work in progress (WIP) The posting entity is from the header of the production order.
Capacity cost
  • The posting entity is from the work center.
    • Raw material

    The posting entity is based on the Inventory Posting option on the Multi-Entity Management Setup.

    • If Entity from Location is selected, the posting entity is from the location.
    • If Entity from Item is selected, the posting entity is from the item.

    Finished Production Orders List

    Use this page to review the list of finished production orders in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Only the records that belong to the entities to which you have access appear in the list.

    List Fields

    This list contains the following MEM columns: 

    MEM Fields
    Field Description
    Entity Code Displays the entity code for the line.
    Global Dimension Code Displays an additional global dimension for the line.

    Finished Production Order Card

    Use this page to review finished production orders. The data on this page is read-only, where you can see only the data that belongs to entities to which you have access.

    Card Fields

    This page contains the following fields: 

    Production Order Fields Table
    Field Description
    General
    Entity Code

    Select the entity for the record. You can change the entity to any entity to which you have access.

    The default value is your default entity that you selected in My Settings. If you did not set up the default entity, the default entity is first entity in the list that you have access.

    Global Dimension Code Select the global dimension for the record.
    Lines
    Entity Code Select the entity code for the line. The default value is from the header. Required.
    Global Dimension Code Select the global dimension code for the line.
    Location Code

    Select the location code for the line. Available on released and finished production orders only.

    This value is required only when Inventory Posting is Entity from Location on the Multi-Entity Management Setup.