Manufacturing · Inventory & Manufacturing
Make what was ordered. Know what it cost.
From the bill of materials to the finished lot, in five steps.
The product knows how it is made
The bill of materials and the routing sit on the product: the components with their quantities, the operations with their work centre and their time. Change the product and every order after it follows.
From the bill of materials to the finished lot, in five steps.
The bill of materials and the routing sit on the product: the components with their quantities, the operations with their work centre and their time. Change the product and every order after it follows.
Lots, shortages, scrap, checks, and what the order cost.
What a product is made of, in which steps, and which fields the order carries are yours to set.
Lots and serial numbers, both ways
Which lot of panels went into LOT-2026-0917, and which customer received it. Read upstream to the supplier and downstream to the delivery. See Inventory.
Lots and serial numbers, both waysMulti-level bills of materials
A sub-assembly is a product with its own bill and its own routing. Order the finished product and the sub-assembly's order is created under it.
Scrap declared where it happens
A cracked diffuser is declared on the work order, with a reason, and the replacement comes off stock. The order's cost knows.
A quality check at the step
Wire and test carries a check the operator answers before the work order closes. A fail opens a non-conformity on the lot. See Quality.
A quality check at the stepThe machine, from the bench
The work centre is a machine with a service due. A breakdown declared from the tablet opens the maintenance request and the planner sees the work orders it blocks. See Maintenance.
The machine, from the benchThe cost, actual against standard
Material at the price it was bought, time at the work centre's rate, per order and per unit, beside what the bill of materials said it would be.
The same order, for a furniture maker and a cosmetics maker.
What adapts: what an order makes (one piece or a batch), what its bill of materials is written in (pieces, sheets, kilograms), the steps of its routing, the fields the work order carries, the check at each step, and where its cost lands. Two businesses can run Manufacturing and disagree on every one of those.
A bespoke furniture maker, making to order
Every order makes one piece. The bill of materials is written for that order from the drawing, the routing is the workshop's four steps, the work order carries the drawing revision and the finish, and the cost is the hours the maker logged plus the material, read against the quote's price.
A cosmetics manufacturer, making small series by batch
Every order makes a batch. The bill of materials is in kilograms and units, the order comes from the stock rule, the batch gets a lot number and an expiry date, the fill step carries a pH check, and the lots of every component are recorded for the day someone asks.
The product modelled as it is made, not as a template says.
A bill of materials is a relation between products, with a quantity and a unit on each line. A routing is a list of operations, each with a work centre, a planned time, the drawing it shows and the check it asks. Both are objects you can open: add a colour temperature to the panel, a drawing revision to the operation, a pH range to the check, a scrap allowance to the line, a "made here or bought" flag to the component, and the order, the work order and the tablet carry the field from then on. A calculated field reads the standard cost back from the lines.
The work order, on the tablet.
One screen at the bench: the step, the drawing at the revision this order needs, the work instruction, the quantity done, the time running, and the check to answer before Done. The operator never types a reference. The drawing and the instruction are documents on the operation, so the tablet at Bench B2 shows LB-600 rev. B because the order says so, not because someone printed the right one.
This is the room.
The week's manufacturing orders: what they make, for whom, when they are due, whether their components are there, which work centre they are on, and what each has cost so far against what it should.
Built for the workshop that makes what it sells.
Joiners, metalworkers, lighting and sign makers, small food and cosmetics producers, machine builders, the workshop of five to eighty people that quotes a job, buys the material, makes the thing and invoices it: the business where the person who wrote the quote knows the person at the bench, where the bill of materials is the workshop's knowledge written down, and where "what did that order cost us" has to be answered before the next quote goes out.
The production tool you would otherwise buy stops at the finished lot.
It runs the order to the lot well. The quote that won the job, the customer, the ledger the cost lands in and the machine that made it live somewhere else, reached by connector.
A bill of materials and a routing on the product
- A spreadsheet
- Typed per order
- A production tool
- Yes
- A suite module
- Yes
- Enobase
- Yes, with your fields on both
The order from the quote that won the job
- A spreadsheet
- Typed in
- A production tool
- Yes, from its own order
- A suite module
- Yes
- Enobase
- Yes, from the quote, with the customer on it
Components reserved, shortages purchased
- A spreadsheet
- No
- A production tool
- Yes
- A suite module
- Yes
- Enobase
- Yes, the purchase order to your supplier
The work order on a tablet at the bench
- A spreadsheet
- Paper
- A production tool
- Sometimes
- A suite module
- Sometimes
- Enobase
- Yes, with the drawing and the check
A quality check at the step
- A spreadsheet
- No
- A production tool
- Sometimes
- A suite module
- Yes
- Enobase
- Yes, on the work order, a fail opens the non-conformity
The machine's breakdown, declared from the floor
- A spreadsheet
- No
- A production tool
- Rarely
- A suite module
- Sometimes
- Enobase
- Yes, and the planner sees what it blocks
The lot's cost in your ledger
- A spreadsheet
- Copied
- A production tool
- Exported
- A suite module
- Yes, in their accounting
- Enobase
- Yes, on the lot, the order and the ledger
Time to live
- A spreadsheet
- A day
- A production tool
- Weeks
- A suite module
- Months
- Enobase
- Weeks, with the quote and the stock already there
| What you need | A spreadsheet | A production tool | A suite module | Enobase |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A bill of materials and a routing on the product | Typed per order | Yes | Yes | Yes, with your fields on both |
| The order from the quote that won the job | Typed in | Yes, from its own order | Yes | Yes, from the quote, with the customer on it |
| Components reserved, shortages purchased | No | Yes | Yes | Yes, the purchase order to your supplier |
| The work order on a tablet at the bench | Paper | Sometimes | Sometimes | Yes, with the drawing and the check |
| A quality check at the step | No | Sometimes | Yes | Yes, on the work order, a fail opens the non-conformity |
| The machine's breakdown, declared from the floor | No | Rarely | Sometimes | Yes, and the planner sees what it blocks |
| The lot's cost in your ledger | Copied | Exported | Yes, in their accounting | Yes, on the lot, the order and the ledger |
| Time to live | A day | Weeks | Months | Weeks, with the quote and the stock already there |
Questions about Manufacturing
Yes. On its own it is a bill of materials, a routing, an order and its work orders. Turn Inventory on and the components are reserved from stock and the lot lands in it; turn Quotes on and the accepted quote creates the order.