Product Updates

We’ve added new details for the cost of raw materials listed in the BOM & Routing cost breakdown. You’ll now see piece counts and their distinct costs which will highlight variance from the materials from inventory or vendors.

This breakdown can be see through the Total Cost link on a buy item.

Fulcrum Product Manager, Emily Ujifusa, shows us around recent updates to some of the most popular areas of Fulcrum, including:

• Sales Order Bar Graph Filtering
• Sales Order Status Deep Dive
• Increased Operation Progress Visibility
• Throughput, Equipment Utilization, Makespan, and Dwell Time Reporting
• Ease of Use Improvements to Job Tracking
• Data Import Templates and Uploads

In addition to an updated look and feel, the Operations Progress section now provides a couple of additional data points: the planned and actual time, as well as the planned and completed quantity. You can see these updates on each Job.

The Open Operations Tab shows one row per open operation that gives status, quantity, and scheduling details. This gives production managers key info on everything that needs to be worked in one place.

We’ve updated the Sales Order Status page for invoices, and you can now use all the same actions that can be used from the Invoicing Grid on the SO Status page. You can create, follow-up, issue, deposit, and view invoices right from the Sales Order Status page without having to navigate elsewhere.

If an Invoice was created without any Payment Terms, you can now select “Payment Terms” to easily update and recreate the Invoice.

If no payment terms were selected at the time of Invoice Creation, there will now be “Edit Payment Terms” text to indicate a selection of payment terms. If payment terms already exist in your system, you can edit them and remove their name and due dates, save, and then you will be presented with 'Edit Payment Terms' text to get the lookup modal for payment terms again. A note that this will only be visible when the Invoice can still be edited. If the Invoice has already been issued, you will not see the Edit text.

Makespan & Dwell Time reporting gives you a high-level view of your jobs’ active processing times and idle times, helping you to identify bottlenecks over time. The data shown populates when a job is completed and accounts for any time adjustments. To see a single month’s average makespan and dwell time, click on the bar of the corresponding month.

Makespan is the duration of a job, from the first clock into a job to when it’s completed.

Dwell Time is the total downtime within Makespan when a job has no operation running.

We’ve redesigned the Job Tracking panel to help keep the right information at your fingertips:

A) Recent gives you a quick overview of everything you’ve been working on.

B) @Mentions help show you any time someone else mentions you in a note.

C) Notes gives you an easy way to keep up with new messages on jobs you’ve worked on.

D) Review Timer History or Sign Out by opening the three dot menu.

We've introduced several enhancements to the throughput report:

1. You can now click select any of the months on the Year-To-Date chart to show details for that month (instead of the current month) in the KPIs and chart to the left.

2. Last-year comparison has been added for the selected month's Total Throughput KPI.

3. You can export month summaries for each month, this year and last year.

For customers using QuickBooks Online integrated with Fulcrum, we’ve added several more custom fields. For purchase order syncing, you can now map the Fulcrum Jobs to a custom field in Quickbooks. For invoice syncing, you can now map Fulcrum Packlist Number and Fulcrum Quote Number to a custom field in QuickBooks. The new fields can be configured in the QuickBooks settings page.

Now you can set how reserved inventory generates the shipment status in System Data!  This is a helpful update for those who rely on reserved inventory. When this setting is on, shipment statuses will exclusively use the inventory reserved for that sales order to generate shipment status. When off, shipment statuses will be generated the same as stock items, marking those with the highest priority as ready first, followed by those with the earliest ship by dates.

You can now set up Accounting Code Descriptions in System Data > Tags for the 'Item Accounting Codes' category. Descriptions set up here will be available when picking an accounting code for an item on the Items page, Sales Order, Quote, Purchase Order, and Invoice.

The 'Sales Order Value by Status' graph on the Sales Order grid was updated to be more interactive and dynamic. You can now click into the different datasets and filter the grid based on the status and time frame selected on the graph.

Now you can generate and save filters in Job Tracking for yourself or team members. When a user logs in, the filters apply automatically so your team can see exactly what they need to work on. The “Create Filters” permissions in Business Setup enables users to create job tracking filters for other users.

You can now select “Attach to Associated Records” to have files from Sales Orders also appear on associated records including Quotes, Jobs, Shipping records and more.