Manufacturing

Turn recipes into finished stock — bills of materials, manufacturing orders, and lighter one-step assemblies.

How-to guides

• Create a recipe (bill of materials) — define what a product is made of, then activate it.
• Bulk import recipes (BOMs) — build many recipes at once from a spreadsheet.
• Build with a manufacturing order — create, confirm, start, and record production.
• Handle component shortfalls on a manufacturing order — read materials readiness and clear a shortfall before you start.
• Manufacture with a contract manufacturer — outsourced builds: site warehouses, the backing PO, costing, and lot genealogy.
• Set up a multi-stage co-manufacturing chain — split a recipe across several outside vendors.
• Assemble a kit — a quick one-step build (under Inventory).
• Monitor production from the overview — what's running, late and coming up this week.
• Assemble and disassemble in Simple Mode — one-step builds and breakdowns without a full manufacturing order.
• Add co-products and by-products — one run, several valued outputs.
• Add operations to a recipe — reusable operations from the Operations Library.
• Record operations and labor time — timers, actual minutes and costing.
• Record scrap on a manufacturing order — scrap costed into the finished goods.
• Compare planned and actual production — iterations against the plan.
• Schedule production — sequence and prioritise manufacturing orders.
• Act on manufacturing suggestions — what to make next from demand and stock.
• Set up made-to-order decoration — methods, placements and cost rules.
• Decorate a sales order line — add a decoration, create its decoration order and see its actual cost.
• Forecast demand and replenish stock — demand planning and manufacturing suggestions (under Inventory).

Planning

• Material Requirements Planning — work out what to make, buy and move, and when to start each one.
• Set up — planning policies and the master production schedule.
• Run and read the plan — start a planning run and make sense of what it returns.
• Act on the plan — firm, carry out, and promise, and work the exception messages.

Reference

• Manufacturing order status reference — the lifecycle and what each action does to inventory.