Manufacturing
For a business that MAKES something rather than only moving it. A product you assemble carries a bill of materials — the recipe: what goes into one, and how much of each. Define it once on the product, and every work order for it reads the same list.
Bill of materials
what it is made of
Work order
make N of them
Operations
the steps and stations
Close it
components out, product in
- 1Open the product in Inventory and mark it as assembled, then list its components and quantities.
- 2In Manufacturing → Bills of materials you see every product you assemble, how many you can build from current stock, and what one costs.
- 3Raise a work order for a quantity in a warehouse, and add its operations (cutting, assembly, wiring) with their work centres.
- 4Closing the work order draws the components out of stock and puts the finished product in — automatically, from the bill of materials.
Quantities are FRACTIONAL, and follow each component's own unit: 4.5 metres of cable and 0.8 metres of heat shrink in a panel, or 0.35 litres of base oil per litre of product. A piece stays a whole number. The unit decides, not the field.
Revisions and engineering changes live here too: a bill of materials is versioned, and a change is proposed, approved and then applied to the live list — so you can always say which version a given batch was built to.
A component line carrying no usable quantity consumes nothing and costs nothing. That is deliberate — guessing 1 would silently multiply your stock movements — but the Manufacturing home reports those lines so somebody can fix them.
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