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Use Reports After Work Orders Start Moving

Reports are most useful after work orders are released, started, completed, or closed. They do not replace the work order detail, but they help users spot stale work, cost variance, and component usage patterns across many work orders.

Manufacturing Reports WIP Aging tab with age buckets, open work order totals, WIP value, and table area

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WIP Aging

WIP Aging shows released and in-progress work orders. Use it to find work that is aging on the floor, carrying too much work-in-progress value, or missing its planned due date.

  • Total open WOs: released and in-progress work order count.
  • Total WIP value: accumulated work order cost for open manufacturing work.
  • Age buckets: 0 to 7 days, 8 to 14 days, 15 to 30 days, and over 30 days.
  • Due date: highlights work that is past planned end date.
Review old WIP before period close Old open work can make inventory and cost review harder. Review stale WIP before closing a period, especially if work is physically complete but still in progress in Arcus.

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Cost Variance

Cost Variance compares estimated manufacturing cost to actual cost on completed or closed work orders. Use it to review BOM accuracy, labor and overhead assumptions, and unusual material usage.

Manufacturing Reports Cost Variance tab with date filters, completed work order summary, favorable and unfavorable counts, and variance table
  • Completed WOs: work orders in completed or closed status for the selected date range.
  • Favorable: actual cost was less than or equal to estimated cost.
  • Unfavorable: actual cost exceeded estimated cost.
  • Total variance: estimated cost minus actual cost across the filtered work orders.
Variance is a review signal, not an automatic correction A variance may mean the BOM estimate was stale, actual materials differed, labor or overhead changed, or the work order had an exception. Review the work order before making accounting or product-cost changes.

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Build History

Build History shows completed work orders, completed quantity, total cost, cost per unit, completion date, and product-level trends. Use it when you need to understand whether manufacturing cost is improving, worsening, or changing by product.

  • Filter by product or date range when comparing similar builds.
  • Review cost per unit before updating pricing, standards, or purchasing assumptions.
  • Open the work order detail when a build looks unusual.

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Component Usage

Component Usage groups completed or closed work order lines by component. Use it to see how much was required, issued, returned, scrapped, and costed over time.

  • Total required: expected component quantity from work order requirements.
  • Total issued: component quantity actually issued to work.
  • Total returned: component quantity returned to stock.
  • Total scrapped: component quantity scrapped from manufacturing.
  • Scrap percent: scrap compared with issued quantity.
Reports follow work order status WIP Aging focuses on released and in-progress work. Cost Variance, Build History, and Component Usage use completed or closed work orders. If a work order is missing from a report, check its status first.

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Common Questions

  • Why is WIP empty?: there are no released or in-progress work orders.
  • Why is Cost Variance empty?: there are no completed or closed work orders in the selected date range.
  • Why does WIP value look low?: confirm materials, labor, overhead, and completion activity were recorded on the work order.
  • Why is a component not shown?: component usage reports completed and closed work order lines with consumable dispositions.
  • What should accounting use?: use Manufacturing Reports for operational review, then use accounting reports and journal entries for final financial review.

Work Orders

Create, release, start, complete, close, or cancel manufacturing work from active BOMs.

Bills of Materials

Create BOM recipes for assemblies, disassemblies, conversions, revisions, defaults, costs, and availability.

MRP Planning

Run MRP, review build and purchase suggestions, include safety stock, and create draft WOs or POs.

Inventory Transactions

Audit stock movement history, movement types, supply and demand rows, and FIFO layer detail.

Dashboard Overview

Use the main dashboard for revenue, orders, inventory, AR, fulfillment, alerts, and recent activity.

Financial Reports

Run balance sheet, profit and loss, cash flow, and operational reports.