The procedure described here is not required if you are using the simple manufacturing module and if you do not use your own products or semi-finished products in the manufacturing process - in such a case the settings of material consumption accounts on document types for internal receiving are different also. It is simplified so that unfinished manufacturing does not occur.

If settings of automatic posting are prepared:

• unfinished product stock is debited with internal receiving by issuing of semi-finished products or products
• unfinished product stock is approved in debit of finished product stock with receiving of semi-finished product or product

To round up posting of material movements in the current period you have to by the end of it (e.g.  month) transfer the costs of material and goods consumption that has been posted to account 4000 to the debit side of unfinished product stock.

To automatically post this movement you can prepare an automatic posting template:

Note to template:

• Item 10 - you can select debit transactions on accounts from group 40 which are debited by costs of material and goods consumption, after you defined document types for internal issuing. This value is posted to the credit side of account 4900.
• Item 20 - contra-entry to account 4900 represents the debit side of account 6000 used for unfinished manufacturing.

By clicking the Report button you open the window to display and post data of any automatic posting. 

Enter the start and end date of the posting period (e.g. from 1st July 2002 till 31st July 2002) and post the selected data. As document type you can select the same document type that you are using for material cosnumption (by default 470).