Manufacturing v20.1

Sicon Manufacturing is a set of additional modules for Sage 200, integrated with Stock, BOM, Sales and Purchase Order Processing. Including modules for Job Costing, Works Order Processing and Estimating, this package can be configured for one-off job costed manufacture or high volume repeat production manufacture. Material and Resource Planning provides suggested works orders and purchase orders plus a rough cut capacity plan at labour and machine levels.

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201.0.31

Issues Resolved Hot Fix Enhancements Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Works Order Processing

  • Yield and By Products will now be correctly applied on the checked out bom when using version control.
  • Fix when allocating works order lines with warehouse hierarchy where the default warehouse set on the stock item was not being considered.
  • Added a fix to remove blank serial numbers and to remove duplicate items that shouldn’t exist.
  • Fix to allow deletion of unused serial numbers form completed works orders.
  • Fix to warehouse hierarchy to selec tthe correct component line and sub assembly warehouses. We will now use the stock item defaults if the settings are enabled then check to ensure it is within the hierarchy for the parent works order.
  • Fix to stop reserving serial numbers unnecessarily when booking in serial or batch numbers.
  • Fix to remove inspection information when stock item has been changed.
  • Fix to use the correct sales order line when posting to Projects.

Kitting

  • Remove refresh contents on the sales order lines grid within the sales order to maintain product orders that have been changed.

Material & Resource Planning 

  • Fix to suggestion reasons w2here some reasons were being lost when grouping.
  • Transfers created from MRP will now be flagged with a type so they can be safely deleted if preallocation is cancelled.
  • Fixes to reschedule messages.
  • Fixes to usual and minimum order calculations for suggested purchase orders.
  • Fixes to warehouse selection for suggested works orders when warehouse hierarchy is enabled in MRP but not in WOP.
  • Fix to suggested stock transfers when no other suggestions are created.
  • Fix to incorrect quantity of free stock when running rescheduling for suggested works orders.
Hot Fix Enhancements

Works Order Processing

  • GetTemplateWorksOrder webAPI methods have been added.
  • Stock item settings import has been added to the works order menu items.

Material & Resource Planning

  • Setting to show/hide the WAP requisition buttons within the MRP screen has been added.
  • Added a purchase order buffer setting.

Date applied: April 29, 2021

201.0.30

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Works Order Processing

  • Fix to stop error occurring when booking in traceable item for autogenerated numbers using a short date
  • Fix to stop out of memory exception when updating to v20.1 for the first time for large companies when creating the works order line to operation linkers
  • Fixes/improvements to the project enquiry works order tabs
  • Better message when trying to allocate a works order line when using warehouse hierarchy and a problem occurs
  • Fix to copying works order where the is received flag was being set to true incorrectly, data fix has been added
  • Enable processing of the works order after unbooking removing need to reopen the works order form
  • Fix to stop object reference error when clicking amend sales order where there are no finished items
  • Fix to prevent object reference occurring when adding a new whilst adding a new finished item to a works order

Kitting

  • Fix to stop error appearing when building kit with the same nominal as the internal area

Date applied: April 13, 2021

201.0.29

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Works Order Processing

  • Fixes/improvements to the works order enquiry screen on Sicon Projects
  • Fix to issue works order sub assembly lines via back flush from Barcoding

Date applied: April 13, 2021

201.0.28

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Works Order Processing

  • Validate traceable finished items when opening the finished items control for the first time.
  • Fix to use the short date for serial numbers
  • Fix to update the stock item next auto generated number.

Date applied: April 1, 2021

201.0.27

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Works Order Processing

  • Fix to booking works orders that have works order lines with overhead recovery values, where an error was thrown regarding nominal adjustments

Material & Resource Planning

  • Fix to why some suggestions were for 0 or lower.

Date applied: April 1, 2021

201.0.26

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Works Order Processing

  • Fix to stop adding duplicate sales over lead time to future stock movements screen.
  • Fix to stop trying to post nominals when integrate stock with nominals is disabled

Kitting

  • When building kit for a sales order line, an error has been fix that was stopping the sales order line from appearing allocated.

Material & Resource Planning

  • Fix to suggestions not taking into account free stock when using multiple warehouses and not splitting them
  • Fix to UOM calculation on suggested purchase orders where the base and stock UOMs are different

 

Date applied: March 30, 2021

201.0.25

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Works Order Processing

  • Fix to calculate standard cost variance correctly and post to correct nominals.
  • Unbooking now handles unbooking cost variances.
  • Calculate due dates correctly when changing the sales order/line promised or requested date.
  • Fix to the works order tabs on the project enquiry screen.
  • Fix to stop duplicate projects posting when the sales order line preallocation is deleted and completed.

Material & Resource Planning

  • Fix to why suggestions that were not required after the over ordering check were not being deleted and appeared with 0 quantity.
  • Fix to making suggestions for sub assemblies that are in 3 layers deep of phantoms.
  • Check MRP previous run settings when changing stock item and use previous MRP result is checked.
  • Sales over lead time ignores quarantined warehouses.

Kitting

  • Fix to stop delivery address being removed when clicking on the order details tab.
  • Fix to handle rounding costs when disassembling kit template.

Date applied: March 26, 2021

201.0.24

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Works Order Processing

  • Changing the promised date on the sales order line will prompt to update associated works orders if the use sales order request date setting is false.
  • Added sub transactions to projects works order transaction enquiry
  • set unit cost to 0 on transaction history records for book with nominals not updated.

Material & Resource Planning

  • Fix to show the calculate button on sales orders when using MRP lite.

Date applied: March 26, 2021

201.0.23

Issues Resolved Hot Fix Enhancements Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Material & Resource Planning

  • Fix to suggested transfers to use the right warehouse and date.
  • Sales order return screen will now open wider to stop calculate button from disappearing.
  • Fix to lead time calculation for suppliers using weeks, months and years.
  • Fix to unit of measure calculations for sub assemblies and suggested purchase orders for component lines.
  • Fix to creating purchase orders for project operations.

Works Order Processing

  • Fix to update using sales order line requested date correctly as it was using the old date and not the new selected date.
  • Fix to part allocate screen to not allow over allocations.
  • Disable book button for on hold works orders.
  • When using over allocations, issuing less than the allocated amount no longer marks the line as issued.
  • Fix to stop actual cost appearing on projects when works orders are booked but not completed and unconfirmed costs are enabled.
  • Fix to stop sub contract costs being duplicated on projects when using unconfirmed costs.
  • Fix to completing works order when using unconfirmed costs and integrating stock with nominals is disabled.
  • Fix to complete works order with no works order lines.
  • Reworded message to be unambiguous when changing works order quantity on a works order preallocated to a sales order.

Kitting

  • Fix to sales order lines with kits list for sage 2016 as the allocated status for sales orders does not exist.
  • Fix to set the disassemble issue when disassembling a kit to stop object reference error.
Hot Fix Enhancements

Works Order Processing

  • Add new webAPI methods to create works order for bill of materials item and add template lines to works order.
  • New works order transaction enquiry tab on project enquiry screen.

Material & Resource Planning

  • Add a setting for supplier lead time to allow users to specify it to be calculated using calendar or working days.

Date applied: March 26, 2021

201.0.22

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Works Order Processing 

  • Fix to use the order number and date when booking traceable finished items.
  • Fix so operations are copied from templates when copying to a works order.
  • Fix to show sub contract line in teh sub contract management screen when multiple sub contracts for the finished item exist.
  • Fix to calculate the actual hours on the labour works order line when removing correctly.
  • The actual transactions grid will now refresh after adding, editing, or removing an actual labour transaction.

Material and Resource Planning

  • Fix to suggested purchase orders using the default ratio for a UOM rather than it’s implementation on the stock item.
  • Fix to stop allowing duplicate works order numbers from being created from suggestions.
  • Cancelling out of the preallocations screen will now not create a preallocation.

 

Date applied: March 11, 2021

201.0.21

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Material Planning

  • Fix to stop creation of unneeded suggested stock transfers
  • Fix to warehouse selection for works order suggestions when using warehouse hierarchy

Works Order Processing

  •  Fix to use the customer buffer days if the promised or requested date has been changed on the sales order line or sales order

Kitting

  • Fix to use 2 decimal places when checking the issue cost is the same as the cost of each line
  • Fix to stop reducing the line quantity to under the quantity required
    Fix to correctly allocate part allocated lines
    Fixed error when able to enter stock item is disabled within sales orders (and quotes)

Date applied: March 8, 2021

201.0.20

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Kitting

  •  Fix where the kit was being set as allocated when the last line line was allocated and the other lines where part allocated
  • Fix to show part allocated lines in the allocate kit line screen

Works Order Processing

  • Fix to why deleted works order lines would stop stock items from being deleted
  • Fix to the ‘INWIP’ view to calculate standard cost variance correctly
  • Fix to select the works order component warehouse when changed instead of defaulting back to the default components warehouse setting
  • Fix to not allow booking and scrapping to go above the total quantity to book

Material Planning

  • Fix to Sage works order suggestion warehouses
  • Fix to stop creation of unneeded suggested stock transfers

Date applied: March 8, 2021

201.0.19

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Works Order Processing

  • Updating expected hours calculates on an operation calculates the start and end times correctly.
  • Fix to show traceable items on complete works orders.
  • Fix to stop object reference error when backflushing a works order with a sub assembly.
  • Fix to allow issues for multiple allocations.
  • Fix to backflush to revalidate all works order lines after amending a works order.
  • Fix incorrect setting name for show delete button on process works orders.
  • Backflush validation error message now mentions if the stock has been used on a separate backflushed works order.
  • Fix to show the Sicon tab in the same place when viewing the item details from the works order as from the Sage menu.

Kitting

  • Fix to prevent status showing as allocated incorrectly when changing the kit line quantity.
  • Data fix for kits with an allocated status after changing the kit line quantity.

Material & Resource Planning

  • Improvements to the economical batch size calculations.
  • Performance improvements.
  • Fix to UOM suggestions.

Date applied: February 24, 2021

201.0.18

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Material & Resource Planning

  • Fix to creating preallocations between a stock transfer and it’s demand when converting a suggested stock transfer.
  • Fix to handling Sage works orders usage warehouses.
  • Fix to grouping works orders.
  • Improvements to stock level option suggestions.
  • Fix to handling grouping suggested works orders when preallocate child to parent is not enabled.
  • Fix to generating suggestions for items inside of phantoms.
  • Fix to generating min stock suggestions for items that has only movements in the past or before a suggestion.

Works Order Processing

  • Batch numbers now generate using the works order number when setting is enabled.
  • Fix to stop write off stock being allowed for allocated stock on a works order.
  • Fix to set the correct works order number when adding a sub assembly line.
  • Fix to use the highest priority bin if stock isn’t available in any of the replenishment locations.
  • Fix to formatting the spare text fields in settings.
  • Fix to allow templates without finished items to added to existing works orders.
  • Fix to allocating across bins was causing an error when using FIFO allocations.
  • Fix to set the default ‘supply to’ on the purchase order created by a subcontract.
  • Fix to save Rates on the Rates form.
  • Minor performance improvements when creating a works order on the add component line.

Kitting

  • Fix to not show the sales order number on the active kits list when the preallocation has been deleted.
  • Fix to delete only the kit for the sales order line that has been deleted.
  • Fix to only create a kit for the remainder after having built a kit previously.
  • Kit cost was not showing on the quote for a kit as the location of the textbox was outside of the viewable window.
  • Changed the IsSalesOrderAllocated method in the web api to make the company id optional.

Date applied: February 24, 2021

201.0.17

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Material & Resource Planning

  • Fix to grouping suggested works orders sub assemblies.
  • Fix when using the sales over lead time.

Works Order Processing

  • Fix to using warehouse hierarchy when creating works orders for sales order lines using the sales order workflow.

Date applied: February 24, 2021

201.0.16

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Works Order Processing

  • Fix to the works order list infinite scroll problem.
  • Fix to multiple miscellaneous item nominal posting when allocating a miscellaneous item line and then back flushing the Works Order.
  • Fix to check the BOM status of the Works Order and all sub assemblies before allowing a Works Order copy.
  • Fix to stop amendments occurring for traceable items where traceable numbers are autogenerated.
  • Create pre-allocation for Works Order Lines now works correctly.
  • Fix to stop an object reference error when printing reports and labels when receiving Sub Contract Purchase Order and booking in the Finished item at the same time.
  • Fix to viewing traceable items that have been booked in.
  • Fix to unissue items back to the bin they were issued from

Kitting

  • Fix to why the invoice address was being removed when creating a Sales Order.
  • Fix to stop error appearing when attempting to build Kits that have been part built.
  • Fix to update allocated quantity on sales order line when popup to create kit has been used.

Material & Resource Planning

  • Fix to include weekends for Purchase Order lead times on future stock movements screen for bought items.
  • Fix to why some Sales Orders were being included even though they were set to not be included.
  • Fix to using the maintain max based on min/reorder levels where the max quantity is less than min/reorder which caused suggestions to be for the correct quantity but negative

Date applied: February 1, 2021

201.0.15

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Material Planning

  • Fix to calculating the quantity of minimum stock suggestions
  • Fix to creating stock transfers from suggested stock transfers
  • Fix to why settings were not appearing when only having MRP light

Works Order Processing

  • Fix to setting quantities for a sub assembly that is the combination of multiple BOM lines

Date applied: January 25, 2021

201.0.14

Issues Resolved Hot Fix Enhancements Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Material Planning

  • Fixes and improvements when using the warehouse hierarchy
  • Fixes to why suggested kits would throw an error when running
  • Fixes to stop a couple out of memory exceptions
  • Fix to duplicate works orders appearing in stock movements
  • Improvements to stock transfer creation
  • Remove suggested stock transfer from grid after stock transfer has been created
  • Fix to scripting maintain supplier screen on a stock item with MRP light

Works Order Processing

  • Fix to creating sub contracts when auto gen order return numbers is disabled
  • Fix to be able to update the finished item subcontract item when adding a subcontract operation to an existing works order
  • Fix to check if stock item has been saved when amending multiple stock items to stop object reference error
  • Fix to update works order status on process works order screen
  • Fix to BOM component costing when using foreign currency
  • Update sub contract datamodel to handle quantities of five decimal places
  • Fix to selecting the correct warehouse for a component when warehouse hierarchy is enabled
Hot Fix Enhancements

Kitting

  • New methods for checking an item has a kit template and current max build quantity

Date applied: January 25, 2021

201.0.12/13

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Material Planning

  • Fix to get warehouse to transfer stock from, in priority order
  • Fix to updating child works order dates when parent date is changed due to another child pushing it back
  • Fix to why suggestions were not being created for Sage works orders
  • Fix to why would stop running due to problem with grouping suggested works orders
  • Fix to processes that were expecting to find Sage works order tables which do not always exist
  • Add the ability to create stock transfers from suggestions

Works Order Processing

  • Fix to finished items screen when using generated batch numbers. It will now generate the remaining quantity for the finished item as the batch quantity, allow ammendments to the columns apart from the serial number when booking and stop generating new lines when entereing the booked finished items screen up to the works order quantity
  • Fix to allow labour and machine transactions to be added to works orders that are booked when using unconfirmed costs

Kitting

  • Rounding cost of kit item added to the highest percentage cost item when disassembling Kit

Date applied: January 19, 2021

201.0.11

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

TRANSACTION HISTORY FOR UNCONFIRMED COSTS WHERE THE NOMINAL HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED WILL HAVE THE COST VALUE REDUCED TO 0. THIS IS TO FIX INCORRECT VALUES BEING SHOWN ON THE RETROSPECTIVE STOCK VALUATION REPORT.

Issues Resolved

Works Order Processing

  • Fix to use the quantity per run correctly when calculating operation length for Operations created from Works Orders.
  • Fix to post nominal variance when completing a standard cost item
  • Fix to correct unposted nominals when going from unconfirmed to confirmed costs
  • Fix to the transaction history created when booking in items using unconfirmed costs so that the costvalue is 0. This correct incorrect values showing in the retrospective stock valuation report.
  • Fix to why the works order list was excluding works orders due to duplicate works order numbers
  • Fix to stop Works Order with Comment operations causing object reference errors when calculating start time from end time.

Material and Resource Planning

  • Fix to stop incorrect duplication of Works Order Suggestions caused by creating suggestions for each BoM level.
  • Fix to SalesOverLeadTime view to improve performance when that option has been selected.
  • Refresh grid if combining lines and creating purchase orders.
  • Fix to stop error occurring when creating suggested purchase orders and Sage believed the order number was in use.
  • Remove closed Sage Works Orders from showing as demand in MRP
  • Fix to stop changing all suggestions to use the default production warehouse.
  • Fix so Split and Combine Suggested Purchase orders recalculates the Cost based on the quantity break of the supplier.
  • Added sales return as a movement type for the futures stock movements screen.
  • Fixes to checking whether a suggestion is required or not.
  • fix to creating a suggested purchase for a stock transfer where an unneeded extra transfer was created.
  • Fix to lead time calculations so they include weekends
  • Fix to stop error occurring when stock codes are mostly decimals but a string value gets added.

Date applied: January 8, 2021

201.0.10

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

Issues Resolved

Works Order Processing

  • Fix to calculating due date using production lead time.
  • Fix to unissue lines where there is no SiWorksOrderLineIssueHistory but Issue transaction histories exist for the item on the works order.

Material and Resource Planning

  • Fix to why unit price on suggested purchase orders was multiplied by the multiple of base unit quantity of a UOM when using Enhancement Pack supplier price breaks.
  • Fix to filtering for sub assembly items in works order suggestions
  • The MRP Stock settings ‘Group suggested purchase within:’, ‘Ignore free stock quantity in Material Planning’, and ‘Ignore existing purchase orders in Material Planning’ will now save correctly.
  • Fix to select the stock item unit set up as the purchasing unit when creating purchase orders from MRP.
  • Fix to make stock transfers use more than two decimal places.

Kitting

  • Fix to disassemble Kit using the correct cost price.

Date applied: January 8, 2021

201.0.9

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

Issues Resolved

Works Order Processing

  •  Added unsubscribe for message subscriptions
  • Fixed the problem where users would get stock in the allocations screen when trying to allocate an item that has negative stock
  • The process works orders screen will no longer allocate bulk issue items
  • Removed cost header checks when creating purchase orders as Projects will handle it

Material Planning

  • Fix to exploding BOMs to more than 1 level down
  • Removed cost header checks when creating purchase orders as Projects will handle it
  • Fix to why works order sub assembly suggestions were not going past the first level

Date applied: December 16, 2020

201.0.8

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

Issues Resolved

Works Order Processing

  • Fix to printing sub contract despatch note when across multiple works orders
  • Fix to stop check when movement balances are deleted when unconfirmed costs are not enabled
  • Fix to showing machine resource when editing a machine line on a works order

Material Planning

  • Fix to check the Currency exchange rate type when checking to see if there are active periods
  • Fix to remove the Serial Number for finished items tab as it has been replaced by the traceable items tab

Date applied: December 16, 2020

201.0.7

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

Issues Resolved

Material Planning

  • Fix to why follow ups were being deleted
  • Fix to why the add new line to suggested purchase order list was not sortable
  • Added stock transfer settings to material planning settings screen
  • Fix to handling suggestions for a warehouse different to the reason warehouse i.e. warehouse hierarchy
  • Fix to display member on UOM for Supplier via stock
  • Fix to explode all levels of BOMs for suggested works orders to get correct usages for items on subassemblies.
  • Fixes to suggestion creation and reasons when using warehouse hierarchy

Kitting

  • Fix to SiconSOPsView200c where fully allocated kits were not being included
  • Added IsSalesOrderAllocated check to Kitting web API

Works Order Processing

  • Fix to setting the ultimate parent when creating a works order, and added a button to the hidden options in settings to correct existing works orders
  • Added stock transfer settings to works order settings screen
  • Fix to print Sub Contract despatch note only using the Despatch note number instead of the Works Order Number
  • Fix to why works order start and end times were not being set correctly when works orders has sub assemblies

Date applied: December 8, 2020

201.0.6

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

Issues Resolved

Works Order Processing

  • Fix to lead time nullable error when creating a works order

Date applied: December 8, 2020

201.0.5

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

Issues Resolved

Kitting

  • Fix to selecting the lines before getting the cost
  • Add Disassemble Components to Stock when disassembling the kit
  • Fix to keep the Kit even if it cannot allocate all of the lines to the sales order line kit when using the createKitsForSalesOrder WebAPI request

Material Planning

  • Fix to reorder level suggestions and economical batch size suggestions
  • Fix to why suggested where being grouped incorrectly
  • Fix to check the currency has an active period exchange rate set if its not the base or the euro currency when selecting the Suggested Purchase Orders in Material Planning
  • Improvements to suggested stock transfers where replenishment warehouses only have a portion of the quantity needed
  • Fix to MRP standalone where an error was thrown due to a line of text being too large
  • Fix to stop duplicate warning messages
  • Fix to incorrect column displaymember for Purchase Orders Direct To Customer UOM
  • Fix to stock item import to handle updating default supplier lead time when a supplier has been specified

Works Order Processing

  • Fix to quantity not showing when creating the Works Order from the sales order line for built/bought items
  • Added sheet setting to the Manufacutring product groups settings control
  • Total sales margin is now shown on the works order sales summary tab
  • Message stating item is buy are you sure you want to build when stock item has a works order template will no longer appear
  • Sheet calculator will now load item as sheet when it’s product group has the sheets option enabled
  • Trim and spacing defaults added to a new works order settings tab called sheet calculations
  • Fix to using quantity per run with a value of zero
  • Performance improvements to checking works order line cost when movement balances are deleted
  • Sub contracts can now be viewed after the Works Order has been completed on the Sub Contract Tab
  • Fix to timeout error when completing works orders
  • Fix to subcontract management PO tab to receive correctly
  • Increments unnecessarily when creating sub assemblies when adding new lines to an existing Works Order causing duplicate Works Order numbers
  • Sub contracts going forward can now select the other sub contract suppliers created in the BomOperation or Operations
  • Fix to use correct overhead cost when setting a fixed value on a BOM
  • Remove Serial Number tab as it is redundant due to the traceable items tab
  • Fix to traceable items when pre creating serial numbers
  • Fix to creating Sicon Inspections when the template was linked to the MSM operation and not the BOM Operation directly
  • Fix to scrapping when on a Works Order with Multiple finished Items

Date applied: November 30, 2020

201.0.4

New Features Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

New Features

Works Order Processing

  • Stop error message when subcontract has been completed and entering the completed quantity field
  • Margin added to the sale summary screen
  • Fix to updating the machine cost
  • Update finished item quantity will prompt to update components and operations
  • Fix to object reference that could appear when opening Sage and running the auto migration for sub contracts
  • Add use by and sell by dates to the finished item screens
  • Built/Bought items will now show when creating Works Orders from sales order lines
  • Fix to preallocating existing purchase orders to a works order line when the option appears to create a sub assembly
  • Fix to not ask every serial item to enter use by or sell by dates
  • Change to warehouse auto selection when creating a works order so it checks stock item settings first
  • Update to use defaults set on the works order
  • Fixes to inspections process for operations and added Stock Item information to inspection form
  • Fix to issuing components on a works order created from a template

Material Planning

  • Performance improvements when using warehouse hierarchy
  • Fix to object reference error when attempting to process an item for a warehouse that has not been included
  • Performance improvements to creating works orders when warehouse hierarchy is enabled
  • Improvements to MRP standalone error logging
  • Renamed MPS to MTS
  • Fix to creating suggestions for Sage works orders where the works order warehouse was used for demand without checking the item exists in that location
  • Fix to handle warehouse on demand not being correct for item

Date applied: November 19, 2020

201.0.3

Issues Resolved Hot Fix Enhancements Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

Issues Resolved

Works Order Processing

  • Fix to amending allocations to stop an error being thrown when changing the quantity to allocate
  • Fixes to amending the inspection details on the amend operation forms where it was failing to save
  • Fix to stop message about template name cannot be null when saving an operation on a BOM that is not an inspection operation
  • Fix to an error thrown when view works orders with many levels via the desktop list
  • Fix to importing works order lines where an object reference error was thrown on import
  • Fixes for traceable item handling when booking
  • Enable save button when no items have been selected
  • Save changes when adding the templates to MSM Operations
  • Fixes to booking works orders with unconfirmed costs where any zeroed component lines were being included when costing the finished item as long as the finished item tab was enabled
  • Fix to show sub contract cost in the sales summary
  • Fix to update sales summary cost when updating sub contract items
  • Fix to post labour cost to labour nominals when scrapping
  • Fixes to updating sales summaries
  • Inspection and area fields now appear when both new operation forms and on the view operation form

Material Planning

  • Fix to the traceable item expiry enquiry view to stop an object error being thrown when clicking on the tab
  • Fix to error that appeared when using the calculate button on quotes
  • Fix to why suggested purchase orders with a lead time in weeks were not including weekends
  • Fix to why some suggested purchase order quantities were incorrect when splitting warehouses
  • Fixes to minimum stock suggestions coming into the purchasing or production warehouse when warehouse hierarchy is enabled
  • Fix to remove sales orders with ### numbers
  • Fix to sub contracts to show Purchase Order Confirmation screen if purchase order number auto generation is disabled
  • Fixes to suggestions having the wrong reasons
  • Fix to stop error when using warehouse hierarchy that stopped Sage running
  • Fix for using to and from dates so suggestions are no longer filtered out by the date range and therefore will get processed
  • Fixes to suggestion quantities and to stop unneeded stock level option suggestions
  • Fix to not include weekends when working start time based on lead time

Kitting

  • Quantity available to build will now appear on the create kit button on quotes
  • Fix to a rounding problem where the finished item could end up being a penny out in the nominal postings
  • Fix to error thrown when trying to create a kit with no finished item location set
  • Change to the SiconKitSOPsView so it now only runs for 200c as it contains a table that does not exist in 2016 (SOPOrderReturn.AllocatedStatusID)
Hot Fix Enhancements

Material Planning

  • Added the calculate button to the sales order line screen

Date applied: November 19, 2020

201.0.2

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

Issues Resolved

Works Order Processing

  • Fixes to allow decimal values when creating batch numbers for finished items
  • Fixes to deleting serial and batch numbers from a finished item on a works order

Date applied: October 30, 2020

201.0.1

Issues Resolved Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

Issues Resolved

Works Order Processing

  • Fix to showing linked works orders on sales orders where they were not all appearing
  • Fixes to auto creating serial numbers via the works order screen
  • Fix to allowing duplicate batch and serials on a works order finished item
  • Fix to manually adding a works order line that is a sub assembly

Material Planning

  • Fix to requested to date filter for suggested purchase orders
  • Fix to excluding quarantined warehouses when running with warehouse hierarchy
  • Fixed a bug where suggestions were being created for the weekend

Date applied: October 30, 2020

201.0.0

Issues Resolved New Features Important
Important Info

ALL USERS MUST BE LOGGED OUT WHEN UPGRADING TO v20.1 FOR THE FIRST TIME.  THIS IS BECAUSE WORKS ORDER FINISHED ITEM TRANSACTIONS WILL BE SWITCH TO BOM BUILD TRANSACTIONS, DUE TO HOW THE SAGE STOCK VALUATION REPORT HANDLES UNCONFIRMED TRANSACTIONS.

New Features

Works Order Processing

  • The setting screen has been overhauled
  • Serial number generation added to the works order screen
  • Sheets and batches calculator added
  • An inspection process has been added
  • Ability to scrap component lines

Material Planning

  • Improvements to warehouse hierarchy
  • Preallocations across warehouses
  • Many more analysis code filters added to suggested purchase orders
  • A new traceable expiry enquiry added
  • User created suggested purchase orders
  • Improvements to the capacity planning screens
Issues Resolved

Material Planning

  • ‘Master Production Schedule’ renamed to ‘Make to Stock’

Date applied: October 27, 2020