Contract Manufacturing

This chapter covers Contract Manufacturing. The pages are listed in the order you'd usually need them: how it works first, then the tasks, then the reference pages.

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Activate a contractor, buy components straight to their site on a purchase order, run an outsourced manufacturing order backed by a purchase order, cost each receipt from the lots actually consumed, and trace every finished batch in both directions	Manufacture with a contract manufacturer
Split an existing recipe across outside vendors — per-stage tolling terms, packaging you supply yourself, and orders that plan their own upstream stages	Set up a multi-stage co-manufacturing chain