Product Updates

It’s been possible to associated jobs to purchase orders in Fulcrum, but the association applied to the entire PO and couldn’t specify which line item was for which job. Now we’ve fully released the ability to associated job to PO’s on the line item level. This association is also visible in receiving, so that receivers can stage items as needed.

We’ve refreshed the PreOperation, In-Progress, and PostOperation Checkpoints experience in Job Tracking to better align with the rest of the Job Tracking interface.
What’s new:

• Updated UI styling to match the Job Tracking experience
• Improved validation behavior
  • Fields only show as invalid after interaction
  • Invalid inputs are now clearly highlighted in red
  • Required checkpoints are marked with a red asterisk
• Clearer permission indicators
  • Restricted fields now display a “Restricted” label for users without access

Pre & Post Checkpoint Improvements: A more compact window for better visibility when working with attachments

In-Progress Checkpoint Improvements: Sticky label and description column for consistent visibility of target, tolerance range, and graphs while horizontally scrolling

Some customers are obligated to show how heavy things are to their shippers so that if the truck is pulled over they can show documentation for how much the parts weigh in total. We will now carry over part weights from two areas. If the item being shipped is a Fulcrum material item, we will carry over that weight automatically. If the item is a normal buy item or make item, we will carry over the weight from the Sales > Shipping section on the Item page.

Note: this currently only supports weight in pounds, as the Shipping section doesn't support other UOM conversions.

The team is continuing to enhance the materials workflows. Recently, they’ve been focused on purchase planning. Here are some of the improvements there:

• If you only select one job to purchase for, we won't associate the unselected jobs with the PO and thus remove them from the view
• Quantity overrides will be properly applied to the PO line item when adding them.
• When you add a material to a PO, other materials that have the vendor as a secondary (non primary vendor) will again be available to select and continue adding to the PO
• Purchase planning assumes you will purchase for the entire job - we’ve made that more obvious in the UI. Similarly, the job will no longer show in the list once it’s been selected to add it to a PO.
• We’ve increased the clarity that our purchasing recommendations for each sheet size are mutually exclusive, you need either 2 sheets of 60"x120" or 1 sheet of 60"x240", not both.

By popular demand, you can now navigate directly to the WO in job tracking from the operations card on the job page. This was previously only available for non-work-ordered operations. We also added visibility to the work order status in operation instructions.

When you pick a buy item, we split the quantity across jobs and make separate pick transactions. However, that approach doesn’t work for material items because materials are consumed in whole units; we don’t want fractional picks showing up in inventory.

Previously, there wasn’t a clean way to both avoid decimals in inventory and allocate cost distribution of the material items with high precision.

This update fixes that. Material items will now be picked once to the work order, creating a single clean pick transaction. During job costing, the system will automatically allocate that pick’s value across jobs based on each job’s bounding box for that material.

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Buy items can now be fully managed within a Work Order. You can add and remove buy items, edit their required quantities, and manage their associations to jobs. All modifications made to buy items flow back to the job, ensuring consistency between the Work Order and the job’s configuration.

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Work Orders now provide expanded control over materials and material items. You can add or remove sheet-sized material items, view and update pick quantities, and make adjustments while the Work Order is in Needs Review status. These changes apply only to the Work Order and do not affect the Job BoM.

• Material and Material Item Bounding Box Updates - Editing a bounding box on the Work Order now updates the corresponding bounding box on the Job.
• Full Sheet Costing Conversion - When a Work Order is created, any material in the job that uses a full sheet costing estimate is automatically converted to usage based.

_{Job Logs for Work Order Changes}

Job Logs have been added to track updates made through the Work Order, including changes to required items and buy items, providing a clear record of modifications.

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Changes made through the Work Order are now logged where possible to provide visibility into updates

A sprinkling of import / export updates

• Customer / Vendor Contacts - “Include on Email” fields
• Bill of Materials - includes “IsArchived” for child and parent items for visibility
• Items - classes and chart of accounts
• [New] Material Feed Rates - you can now import your material feed rates to your equipment to help calculate operation times on your nests.

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Previously, the way demand planning worked is that whenever something changed that impacted demand, Fulcrum would run an update to that information and recalculate the new demand. This meant there was a delay between the update itself and what showed in demand planning, and required a complex calculation for every change.

Now that Fulcrum uses SQL, the data in demand planning can be efficiently calculated live - no more waiting for the calculations to refresh!

If you complete a job at the wrong quantity, you can now edit it directly on the job. This also applies and relevant downstream cost changes!

This is an extension of the existing Landed Costs beta.

As part of the landed costs feature, taxes are now included in inventory upon receiving when the "Apply to Landed Costs" option is selected on the tax code setup. This setting is enabled at the site level in Business Setup > System Data > General (Taxes). This can also be toggled on the individual purchase order tax line - doing so only modifies setting for the individual purchase order.

Here's a video on the including taxes in landed costs.

Additionally, shipping costs on standalone fee-only purchase orders (and any other fees on fee-only purchase orders) can now be applied to inventory via this Link Purchase Order button. Each fee can be linked to a single purchase order. Additional fees on the same fee-only purchase order can be linked to other purchase orders.

Here's a video on applying a fee-only PO to other POs.

Previously, if a job was missing material, then every operation for that job would show the ‘missing material’ flag on the schedule page. However, this overstated the issue, since material could be associated to a specific operation - i.e. not every operation is missing material, only the ones that need it. Now, if material won’t be available, and is associated to a specific operation, then only that operation will be tagged as ‘missing material’.

When nesting multiple different items onto a sheet of material, a lot of math goes into deciding how many sheets to buy, and how many parts you can make from the different pieces and dimensions you have on hand. This update, in short, optimizes the algorithm to maximize what you can make from existing pieces, and minimize how much you would need to buy to produce the parts.

When on the Items & Inventory > Materials grid - clicking the calculator will show a component that will display the density we store for that material and enable users to do any quick calculations needed to help them purchase by weight.

You can now update the Expected Receive Date and Promise Date on Purchase Orders via API using either the PUT or PATCH endpoint:

https://developers.fulcrumpro.com/api-schema#tag/Purchase-Order/operation/PatchPurchaseOrder

The lines data when creating a receipt now takes a lotNumber. If that lotNumber exists, it’ll use the existing lot on that item, if it doesn’t it’ll create the lot during the receiving.

https://developers.fulcrumpro.com/api-schema#tag/Purchase-Order/operation/PatchPurchaseOrder

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