The Manufacturing module

Bills of materials, work centres and routing, work orders on the floor, the production schedule, and changing a recipe without losing what was built before.

16 steps

Watch it end to end

The whole walkthrough, no narration — the captions are on the screen.

Step by step

1 · What the module holds
Six screens: what things are made of, what is being made, when it will be ready, where it is made, and how recipes change.
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The manufacturing home
How many products have a recipe, how many orders are open, and whether any change is waiting.
2 · Bills of materials
Every product you assemble, what goes into one unit, what it costs to build one, and how many you could build right now.
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Cost to build one is calculated
It comes from the components and their current cost — nobody types it, so it cannot go stale.
3 · Where things are made
A work centre is a machine, a line or a bench: its working minutes a day, how many jobs at once, and its cost per hour.
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Press New work centre
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Capacity and cost
480 working minutes a day, one job at a time, 280 EGP an hour. Capacity is what the schedule plans against; the rate is what a job is charged.
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Save the work centre
4 · A work order
One product, one quantity, one warehouse. A confirmed sales order raises these by itself; this is the manual case.
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Press New work order
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Product, quantity, warehouse
250 boards. 'Buildable from current stock' under the product is the warning before you start, not after.
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Press Create
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Components covered, or short
The list compares the recipe against stock in that warehouse and says which component is short, and by how much.
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Start — take the components
This is the moment material leaves the shelf and its cost joins the job. Nothing before this consumed anything.
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Complete when the boards are made
250 finished boards enter stock at what they actually cost. If the product is serial-tracked, 250 serial numbers are minted here.
5 · When will it be ready?
The schedule places every open order on the capacity that actually exists — not on a wish.
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The production schedule
Set-up minutes plus minutes per unit, against each work centre's day. Add an order and the finish dates move.
6 · Changing a recipe properly
Never edit a recipe quietly: a panel built last month must still show the recipe it was really built from.
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Press New change order
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What changes, and why
A thicker facing foil for the cold-store grade, with the reason. At least one new value is required — a change order that changes nothing is refused.
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Save the change order
It is a request until somebody approves it. Approved, it becomes a new REVISION — and the old one is kept, not overwritten.
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Revisions: the history of a recipe
Version 1, version 2, who approved each and when. This is what an auditor or a customer complaint is answered with.