Overview
The Production module turns raw materials and components into finished goods, and keeps your stock and valuation correct automatically as you do. You define what a product is made of, raise factory orders to make it, and completion posts the material consumption and finished-goods output straight into Inventory.
Production is optional. Services-only and pure-trading businesses can leave it switched off; manufacturers and assemblers turn it on.
What Production does for you
Section titled “What Production does for you”- One product definition. A bill of materials (BOM) lists the components and quantities to make one unit, the single definition that factory orders and costing draw from.
- Trackable factory orders. Raise an order against a BOM, follow it through its lifecycle, and (for assembly work) run it through named stages with quality checklists.
- Automatic stock posting. Completing an order consumes its components and increments finished goods in Inventory, in one step, it all saves together or not at all, with no manual double-entry.
- Partial output and scrap. Record exactly what was made and what was wasted.
- Quality gating. Finished goods flagged for inspection are held in a QC bucket and can only become saleable after a recorded quality pass.
Where to start
Section titled “Where to start”| If you want to… | See |
|---|---|
| Define what a product is made of | Bills of materials |
| Raise and track production work | Work orders |
| Post production output to stock | Completing production |
| Gate finished goods on quality | The production quality gate |
| See production stock and output | The production dashboard |
| Turn the module on and set access | Setup and access |