Shortages appear on the floor
A job starts and a component is missing, because nobody checked the bill of material against stock before it was released.
Manufacturing
Built from the stock you have. Costed from what it used.
Bills of material, work orders and quality checks run on the same items and warehouses as inventory and purchase. Material is reserved when a job is released, consumed when it is built, and the finished goods arrive in stock carrying what they actually cost.
The problem
Where production loses track.
The shop floor usually knows what happened. The trouble is that nothing else in the business does until someone writes it up.
Consumption is assumed
Standard quantities are booked whatever was actually used, so scrap and substitutions never show up anywhere.
Unit cost is a guess
The cost of a finished unit comes from a sheet built last year, not from the material and time this batch took.
Quality lives on a clipboard
Inspection results sit in a binder, not on the batch, so a query from a customer starts a search.
Capabilities
What the Manufacturing app covers.
Five groups, reading the items, warehouses and suppliers already held in the Core OS.
Bills of material
What a product is made of, and how.
- Multi-level
- Versions
- Operations
- Scrap allowance
- Costing
Planning
What to make, and what it needs.
- Production plans
- From sales orders
- Material requirements
- Sub-assemblies
- Capacity
Work orders
The job, from released to finished.
- Material transfer
- Job cards
- Partial completion
- Scrap
- Finished goods
Quality
Checks recorded on the batch they belong to.
- Inspection templates
- Incoming inspection
- In-process checks
- Batch release
- Rejections
Costing and visibility
What it cost, and where the difference came from.
- Actual cost
- Variance
- Work in progress
- Yield
- Production reports
Workflow
One work order, six stages.
The order that asked for it, the material it used and the batch it produced all carry the same reference.
A work order moves through six stages: the sales order, a material check, release, production, quality inspection and receipt into finished goods.
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01 Sales order
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Confirmed
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02 Material
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Available
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03 Work order
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Released
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04 Production
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Built
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05 Quality
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Passed
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06 Finished goods
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In stock
Use cases
Where it earns its place.
An assembler building to order
A confirmed sales order raises the work order and the material it needs, and what cannot be covered from stock becomes a purchase request.
A maker with batch-tracked components
The batch of every component is recorded against the finished batch, so a recall is a lookup rather than a search.
A plant with a quality gate
Finished batches are held until their inspection passes, so nothing reaches available stock that has not been signed off.
Works with
Manufacturing on its own is useful. Connected, it is the point.
These read and write the same Core OS records, so a handover between them passes a reference rather than a retyped copy.
Inventory
Real-time stock across warehouses, batches and serial numbers.
Purchase
Requests, purchase orders, supplier pricing and receipts.
Sales
Quotations, sales orders, pricing and customer terms.
Finance
Invoicing, receivables, payables and one double-entry ledger.
FAQ
Questions about Manufacturing.
Does it handle multi-level bills of material?
Yes. A sub-assembly has its own bill and can be planned as its own work order, so the material for every level is worked out together.
What if actual consumption differs from the bill?
The work order records what was actually used, including scrap and substitutions. The difference from the bill is visible as a variance instead of disappearing into stock.
Can a batch be held until it passes inspection?
Yes. An item can require a quality inspection before it is received, and the inspection result stays on the batch for anyone who needs it later.
How is the cost of a finished unit worked out?
From what the work order actually consumed — material at its stock valuation plus the operation costs — not from a standard figure on the bill.
Have a different question? Talk to us.
See it plan a job against your own stock.
Bring one bill of material and last week’s production. We will show what it looks like when the stock, the job and the cost are all reading the same record.