Q: Release FL2 26.04.15

<h2 id="partsstock">Parts &amp; Stock</h2> <h3 id="purchaseordercleardown">Purchase Order Clear Down</h3> <p>There may be occasions where a PO is never going to be fully received (supplier can no longer supply goods, agreement to not complete the PO, etc).</p> <p>The PO Clear Down Function enables users to close the Purchase Order as 'Fully Received', clearing any remaining quantity of items on the PO.</p> <p>Find this feature within the 'Actions' menu of a Purchase Order.</p> <p><img src="https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/d/9/b/9/d9b9b5abe687d800/b58eafd1-27ba-441f-b932-25e29a_1g360z7.png" alt="" /></p> <h3 id="partcategorydeletion">Part Category Deletion</h3> <p><a href="https://flowlens.app/settings/part-categories">Part Categories</a> may now be deleted provided they have no associated parts.</p> <h2 id="reports">Reports</h2> <h3 id="manufacturedpartbomreport">Manufactured Part-BOM Report</h3> <p>The new <a href="https://flowlens.app/reports/manufactured-part-bom">Manufactured Part-BOM</a> Report shows a list of child parts in a manufactured part, along with current cost and supplier information.</p>

Question 1

Release FL2 26.01.16

Accepted Answer

Here are the latest updates!

Production and Job Cards

Job Card BOM Page Picking and Filters

With these improvements the Job Card BoM tab becomes a super helpful tool for understanding the status of stock needed for, allocated to and picked. It's now possible to

see if each line item has been picked, and pick stock directly.
filter the page to show only unpicked items

Job Card Step Filters and Clickable Dependency Graph

Users can change the of the BOM tab step and parts information.

Group by step/part
Filter by step/part

Steps in the Dependency graph are now clickable, and will open the relevant view for the step.

In addition, formatting for Required Parts in Job Card Steps has been improved to handle parts with longer numbers / names.

A bug was resolved that prevented manually added parts from being removed from a job card.

Stock Management and Warehouse

Dispatch Notes

A dedicated notes field has been added to dispatch notes, which is then displayed on the Parts Dispatch PDF.

Allocate Untracked Parts

It is now possible to allocate items to purchase requests for

Question 2

Release FL2 26.08.20

Accepted Answer

Quality

Quarantine Stock

Stock can now be quarantined via the relevant Part page. Stock may be quarantined if it is damaged or requires further inspection, and ensure that it's separated from general stock, avoiding overcounting and giving stronger traceability for the quality system.

The location, quantity and reason can be specified, with additional space for ad hoc notes:

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/f/5/5/0/f55030e0fd9ce800/image_1dxmd6o.png =662xauto)A tab appears on the Part record to show currently quarantined items. Stock can be removed from Quarantine, again with details of reasons and ad hoc notes.

Quarantined stock is not counted towards available stock.

Note this is a currently feature available by request, please contact us if you wish to use it.

Sales & Dispatch

Pick List Update

The Pick List PDF not longer displays cancelled sales order line items.

Question 3

Release FL2 26.04.01

Accepted Answer

De-allocation of Stock

Occasionally priorities change, and stock that is allocated to one order or Job Card needs to be used elsewhere. The de-allocation features lets users release stock.

Deallocate in a Sale

When a Sales Order is confirmed, the 'Stock Status' tab appears showing details of the allocation for each item.

To release stock to use elsewhere, simply click on the Deallocate button on the relevant Part, and if necessary, choose the quantity.

Note: When you are ready to re-allocate stock for this order/part, visit the 'Stock Requests' tab in the sale to either allocate from available stock or pre-allocate from expected later stock:

Deallocate in a Job Card

Stock allocated to a Job Card can also be de-allocated. Visit the relevant Job Card and click on the 'Stock Status' tab.

To release stock to use elsewhere, simply click on the Deallocate button on the relevant Part, and if necessary, choose the quantity.

Note: when ready to reallocate stock, visit

Question 4

Release FL2 26.07.09

Accepted Answer

General

Custom Fields

Note: This is an optional feature, please contact us to enable for your Flowlens system.

The Custom Fields function resides within your system Settings, and enables additional fields to be added against different elements of Flowlens. Initially this has been rolled out for Sales, with further elements to follow subject to user feedback.

Field types include Short Text, Long Text, Number, Yes/No, Date and Select which additionally allows for options to be specified.

In addition, a toggle is available to include the custom field in the search filters.

Optionally, Custom Fields can be set to required which enforces entry from the user.

Where active, a Custom Fields block will appear with the object:

Production & Shopfloor

Actual Time Per Step

Each step in a production step can optionally store the estimated time in hours and mins. Actual time worked is shown in the Tracked Times tab, (and labour cost accrued in the Costs tab).

Now, as time is added against a step using the Start/Stop buttons within the Shopfloor ap

Question 5

Release FL2 26.08.14

Accepted Answer

Stock

Scrap Stock

It's now possible for stock to be marked as scrapped, for example if damaged when being used in a job card, or directly from stock in warehouse etc. Stock can currently be scrapped with the Parts Page or within a Job Card step.

To scrap from with a part, visit the relevant Part page, and select Scrap Stock from the Actions menu.

![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/-/f/5/5/0/f55030e0fd9ce800/image_1pktqfj.png =499xauto)

To scrap stock in a job card, visit the Stock tab in the relevant Job Card step and select Scrap Stock from the Actions dropdown beside the relevant part:

For serialised parts, the relevant serial number must be selected, and the serialised part record will also be updated accordingly.

A full record of scrappages can be found on the Stock Scrappages report, whilst each part also has a Stock Scrappages tab. Scrappages will also appear on the Part Valuation - Transactions tab and the Part Cost Lost transactions report.

Dispatches

Dispatch Address

It's now possible to manually override the delivery address on a dispatch. Note when dispatching a sale, you can only add line items for delivery to the address specified in the relevant

Question 6

Release FL2 26.04.15

Accepted Answer

Parts & Stock

Purchase Order Clear Down

There may be occasions where a PO is never going to be fully received (supplier can no longer supply goods, agreement to not complete the PO, etc).

The PO Clear Down Function enables users to close the Purchase Order as 'Fully Received', clearing any remaining quantity of items on the PO.

Find this feature within the 'Actions' menu of a Purchase Order.

Part Category Deletion

Part Categories may now be deleted provided they have no associated parts.

Reports

Manufactured Part-BOM Report

The new Manufactured Part-BOM Report shows a list of child parts in a manufactured part, along with current cost and supplier information.

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