Manufacturing overview
The Manufacturing module lets you record recipes (what a product is made of, and how much) and run production orders based on them – from stock checks and shortage handling through starting to completing production. Both pages are in the Logistics menu: Production and Recipes.
The module has two pages:
- Recipes – where you define which materials, in what quantities, make one or more finished products.
- Production – the list of production orders. An order is one concrete production run: which recipe, how many times over (Batch Multiplier), which warehouse the materials come from (Source Warehouse), and where the finished goods go (Target Warehouse).
The usual life of an order:
- Create it from a recipe.
- Check stock and, if needed, resolve missing materials by purchasing or producing them.
- Start it – directly or after approval. The materials are then taken out of the source warehouse's stock.
- Complete it with the quantities actually produced and used. The finished goods are then added to the target warehouse.
The order page also shows planned and actual cost, based on the products' default prices. On the dashboard, the Active Productions widget shows in-progress orders and those planned for today, and Automations can be triggered when an order is planned, started, completed or cancelled.
Using the manufacturing pages requires the manage permission for the Manufacturing module.