Manufacturing

The manufacturing module describes how your organization turns raw materials and components into finished goods. It covers the production resources you schedule against (work centers and calendars), the bills of materials and routings that describe how each product is made, the work orders that authorize production runs, and the costing rules that compare each run’s actual cost against its standard.

This guide covers each part of the module:

• Work Centers — the production capacity buckets you schedule against, plus their calendars and date-specific exceptions.
• Routings — the ordered sequences of operations that turn components into a finished product, plus the operation time math and lifecycle.
• Bills of Materials — the recipes for every manufactured product, with components, by-products, scrap factors, alternates, and phantom assemblies.
• Work Orders — the production-run document: lifecycle, releasing, issuing components, reporting operations, scrap, holding, completing/closing, and cancelling.
• Subcontracting — running a Work Order whose operations happen at an external supplier, with components shipped out and processed parts shipped back, all tied to a single production document.
• MRP — the periodic run that turns demand (sales orders, forecasts, safety stock) and current supply into planned work orders and purchase requisitions, plus action messages on supply that no longer matches demand.
• Production Costing — standard costing: the frozen standard cost at release, the running actuals from issues and operation reports, and the per-category variance computed at completion and finalized on the work order at close.