Hello! I am still around and working with Business Central. I know it’s been more than 8 years since my last blog post, but better late than never. 🙂

I went to Directions North America in April this year and met people that are still using and reading my blog, which was great to hear. I also learned that it is now possible to Reopen Finished Production Orders in Business Central, something that people have been waiting on for years (I have wanted this feature for 25 years now, finally!!). This made me so happy I decided to write this blog post.

In 2016 I wrote how to Reverse Production Output and Consumption, but back then it was to correct entries before you change the status to Finished, after that it used to be a lot more work to fix entries. But now there is a Reopen function on Finished Production Orders, yeeha!!!

You will find it in the ribbon of the Finished Production Orders here:

Selecting it and the Finished Production Order is now changed to a Released Production Order with the same production order number.

Now you can do your adjustments (using the methods I described in 2016, Reverse Production Output and Consumption). Or there is another nice new feature; a Reverse Production Entry function on the Item Ledger Entries page.

This function just reverses the Item Ledger Entries that you selected (yes, you can select multiple lines and reverse them all at the same time :-)). The result are just entries added with the reverse signs.

You also have the same feature on Capacity Ledger Entries, does the same thing.

When you are done with your adjustments you can change the status to Finished again. Now, it would not be a new nice feature without a bit of a twist to it; if you try to reopen a production order a second time you get an error message. Note sure why it was done this way, but it is.

You also cannot reopen a Finished Production Order that has no output posted against it. Yes, you read that right, another newer feature is to allow finish production order without any output. It is something you need to activate in the Manufacturing Setup table, and the way it works is that any WIP cost will be written off against the Inventory Adjustment Account in case there is no output posted when the order is changed to finished. This solves another old issue, in the past if you had done any time of transaction against a production order you could not delete it, you had to finish it, and in order to finish it you had to post some output on the last operation. Not you have an option to basically cancel an order without lots of extra steps.

This was a nice and short blog post, I might continue writing or maybe it will take another 8 years to get to the next one. 🙂 Cheers!