Manufacturing

Define bills of materials, plan production, run work orders, track job cards on the shop floor, request materials and outsource work to vendors.

• Create a bill of materialsRecord what a finished product is made from, how many units one run makes and the operations it goes through, with an estimated material cost.
• Set up workstations and run the shop floorDefine the stations where work happens, then move job cards across stages and record quality checks as work progresses.
• Plan production and check materialsList what you want to make, see whether the components are in stock, then raise work orders or a material request from the plan.
• Create a work orderRaise a production run for a BOM, choose where components come from and where finished goods go, and set the planned dates.
• Start, produce and scrap on a work orderStart a work order, check the material it will use, record good units and rejects, and watch finished stock rise as you go.
• Turn a shortfall into a purchase orderReview what a production plan is missing, then raise purchase orders to the items' preferred vendors.
• Subcontract production to a vendorSend components to a vendor, have them assemble the finished goods, and receive the result back with the full cost.
• Track production on the dashboardSee open work orders, material cost, plans, requests and job cards at a glance, and jump into any of them.

See what Manufacturing can do on the product page. Automating it? Use the Manufacturing API.