Cancelling a Released Production Order

lddoran

We have uncovered the change made to NAV (change made in v4.0-we are working in v5.0) where you are unable to cancel a released production order if consumption entries have been posted to the order. We reversed the consumption, which brought the net value of the entries to zero on the order, but we cannot simply change the status of the order to Finished. According to Microsoft's recommendations, you have to post output for at least one of the FG item in order to complete the order.

Has anyone worked around this issue to allow the system, in the event that consumption entries balance to zero (both in quantity and in value), to change the status of a released production order to Finished without an output entry?

Thanks!
Lisa

cernst

The change that you must post output if you have posted consumption or capacity is made because if you cancel a prod.order with consumption but no output then the WIP for that prod.order will remain in WIP forever. If you want to cancel a production order with no output only consumption or capacity entries then you must post output. I agree that it would be nice if it worked the way you describe but it doesn't, not yet anyway