Product Updates

You now have the ability to flag certain items as “build to stock.” This will route job creation for this item to the demand planning section. If your site is configured to automatically generate jobs for every sales order line item, items with this flag will be excluded from that logic. Instead, the job for the stock items will be generated via the demand planning module.

Additionally, if an item is flagged as “build to stock” and is a subcomponent on a new job, the “to make” recommendation of that subcomponent will be set to 0, and a recommendation to make a new stock job will show up within the demand planning module.

This update is particularly useful when making customized subcomponents for an item. Items can now be created as “build to stock,” which will help keep the data our demand planning module needs clean and accurate.

We’ve added a setting to our scheduler functionality to account for customer-supplied material. Previously, the scheduler had a setting that would only account for purchased material. Now, with both settings enabled, jobs will not be scheduled until customer-supplied materials are received as well. This will be helpful to account for delays and also keep your schedule up-to-date and running efficiently. These settings can be enabled in Business Setup > System Data > Scheduling > Scheduler Settings.

We have added error notifications specific to our integration with Quickbooks Online. These error messages will be triggered when there are problems with the sync between systems and will typically inform you how to fix the error.

We had a lot of requests for this one, and it’s finally ready for you to use: Now you can send emails with attachments directly from Fulcrum! You’ll be able to customize your messages and attach documents generated by Fulcrum – like quotes and sales orders – as well as upload and attach additional files. This should help streamline the work for anyone that sends documents to customers or vendors.

You can also set up email templates specific to quotes, invoices, etc.

This functionality is available in the Sales, Purchasing, and Accounting modules.You can activate this new feature with our setup guide.

Because every shop wants different information on their customer-facing documents, we’ve added a setting in Business Setup to allow custom fields to be added to PDFs. Custom fields can be set up in Business Setup > System Data > Advanced > Custom Fields. Here, you can add custom fields related to different sections of your Fulcrum site and add customized line items to PDFs such as Quotes, Sales Orders, Purchase Orders, and Packing Slips. You may need to work with your launch or customer success manager to activate custom fields for your site.

We’ve added a setting for margin-based pricing, which allows you to price based on your desired margins on the items page or at the item level within sales orders and quotes. When the cost of an item is updated, you’ll be prompted to recalculate the price. When margin-based pricing is set, your margin will stay the same and the price will update to reflect the change.

We’ve made some key changes to the way Fulcrum recognizes customizations to items on sales orders and quotes that will help shops that use some customized components and some from stock.

Fulcrum now identifies the specific layer of the BOM/routing that was customized, allowing the system to give better “to make” recommendations on the job for the non-customized portions of the job.

The “to make” roll-up on a job looks at all of its subcomponents, existing inventory, and demand across other jobs, and comes up with a recommended quantity of the subcomponent to make.

The system now understands specifically which subcomponent was customized — meaning it cannot be pulled from stock — and which were not customized and could be pulled from stock. This will help streamline your review process and enable the system to give you better recommendations.

To help you see costs more clearly and quote more accurately, we’ve introduced a new method to break out machine, labor, and overhead rates within Fulcrum. Previously, work centers used a blended rate of machine and labor costs, but now users can see more detailed job-costing information by breaking out the labor and machine estimates. This way, you can track machine and labor time separately to ultimately arrive at more accurate job costs for complex jobs or for machines that can run lights out.To take advantage of this new feature, flag work centers and the associated operations that you’d like to track machine time against in your business setup. This will enable machine time estimates on the associated BOM/Routings and tracking of machine time in the job tracker.

We’ve added a feature to download reporting data from the Jobs, Sales Order, and Invoice pages. These downloads will provide you with year-to-date overviews in an Excel spreadsheet. The downloads can be found at the top of the pages for Jobs and Sales Order pages, while the Invoice report can be found within the Reporting section of the Accounting module. The downloads will be available to admin users.

Fulcrum users can now update their own company data within Business Setup. This means that you can make any changes to your company data directly through your Fulcrum site, rather than going through your launch or customer success manager.

We’ve added a new function to mark items as single-use when creating a quote and a new indicator on the items page. Before this visual indicator, items would be archived once a sales order was closed without a way to identify that the item had historically been single-use. For our customers that are consistently using single-use items, this creates a cleaner view in the items grid.

When quotes and sales orders are categorized as won or lost, the cost information is now locked at the time the BOM and routing information is locked. Before this update, the costing information would pull the most current pricing information with no historical data. This will give you an accurate, historical view of your quoting and sales order activities.

It can be difficult to accurately track scrap material for shops that have complex jobs with operations running over multiple days or weeks. To help keep track of scrap over these long-run operations, we added the ability to log any scrap for the operation while the job is being worked. This will give you a more accurate and timely view of how much is being scrapped and give you a chance to make any necessary changes.

When using work orders, you can now pick materials related to a job rather than items tied directly to a routing step. In the Job Tracker, when job tracking against a work order, team members will now see the materials associated with the underlying jobs all organized by Job ID. The goal here is to create a more streamlined flow when setting up work orders and to make it easier for operators to efficiently pick the items that they need to complete it.

We’ve added the option to copy in-process tracking steps to make them easier to duplicate within a job’s routing step, and you can also more easily re-order the steps. This should help create a more efficient flow when editing routing steps.