Work orders from first issue to finished goods

A work order is one production job: the material it needs, the operations it goes through, the schedule it sits on, and the goods that come back. Stock is checked before it starts, job cards track it while it runs, and finished goods are recorded with batch details when it is done.

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Work Order list view with status filters and production progress

One record for the whole job

Everything that happens to a production job hangs off its work order: what was issued, what was transferred, what each operation logged, and what came off the line at the end.

Where every job stands

Where a job stands, how much has come off it, and whether the delivery date is still realistic.

Material transfer

Availability is checked as you transfer, so a shortage shows up before the job starts rather than halfway through.

Finishing production

Record what came off the line, with inspection and valuation done before the goods land in stock.

Nested work orders

Sub-assembly orders are created and linked to their parent, so a deep product is one chain rather than a pile of jobs.

Every production job in one list

Ordered against produced quantity, current status and delivery date, for every job running in the factory. Products with sub-assemblies show their whole chain in the same list, so you are not opening records to work out what depends on what.

Act on several at onceApprove, start or close a batch of work orders in one action instead of stepping through them individually.

Parent and children togetherThe sub-assembly orders sit under their parent with their own progress, so you can tell whether the hold-up is at the top or three levels down.

From a BOM to a running job

Pick the product and the quantity. The material list, the operations and the schedule are all pulled from the approved BOM behind it, so what the floor receives matches what was costed.

Room for over and under runsReal production overruns and underruns. Set the tolerance you are willing to accept so small variances do not need a manager to approve each one.

Tied to the order it servesLink the work order to the sales order that caused it, and the sales desk can answer a customer without phoning the floor.

Materials, operations and cost on one page

What the job needs, what has been issued to it, which operations have been logged, and what it has cost so far. It is the page a supervisor keeps open while a run is going.

Stock checked before you startShortages are named before the job begins, which is the difference between a purchase request and a stopped line.

Progress comes back from the floorJob cards feed their time and quantities into the work order as operators log them, so cost and progress are not waiting on a data entry pass.

Materials, operations and cost on one page

The schedule as a calendar

Jobs laid out from start date to delivery date on a timeline. It is easier to see two jobs colliding on a calendar than to spot it in a list of dates, which is most of the point.

Status by colourEach production status has its own colour, so a week that is going badly looks different from a week that is going fine.

Drag out a date rangeSelect a range on the calendar to start a work order with its start and delivery dates already filled in.

Sub-assemblies get their own orders

When a product contains sub-assemblies, their work orders are created and linked to the parent. Components are made in the order the product needs them, and the trail from finished good back to the smallest part stays intact.

Created with the parentChild orders arrive configured and linked, so a four-level product does not mean raising fourteen work orders by hand.

Cancelling cleans up after itselfCancel a parent and its outstanding children are closed with it. Work already completed is kept, and the record of what happened stays readable.

One line or forty jobs at once

Sub-assembly work orders nest under their parent, so a deep product does not turn into a pile of unrelated jobs somebody has to reconcile by hand.

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Stage by stage

Every state change recorded, so the history is there later

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Material transfer

Availability checked at transfer time, with shortages named

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Finish production

Finished goods recorded with batch details after inspection

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Calendar view

Jobs on a timeline, so clashes show up before they bite

Work orders from first issue to finished goods

One record for the whole job

Where every job stands

Material transfer

Finishing production

Nested work orders

Every production job in one list

From a BOM to a running job

Materials, operations and cost on one page

The schedule as a calendar

Sub-assemblies get their own orders

One line or forty jobs at once

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