Manufacturing Module
“Why is the cost on my document different from what I paid for the item?” For an item you make yourself, the answer starts in this module. Finalising one production step takes its materials out of stock and puts the item it made in, and carries none of the materials’ cost across; nothing in the module posts a journal. This section is for the production planner, the floor supervisor and the accountant who has to value what came off the line.
Start here.
- Setting the module up? Read Configuration first: what must exist, in order, before the first job order finalises cleanly.
- Running production — a job against a sales order or to stock, a gift pack built without a route, or the packing floor? Use cases follows each shape step by step, with who does the job and how they know it went right.
- Want to know what happens behind the screen? Manufacturing in depth: what one FINAL sets off and what it does not, at what value, and what reaches the ledger.
- A number already looks wrong? A finished item at RM 0, or a margin that looks too good, is A manufactured item shows RM 0 cost. For anything else, start from the symptom table in When manufacturing goes wrong, or find the figure in Manufacturing reports.
Applets in this module
Membership is an editorial judgement — the product has no module↔applet relationship in its data. Manufacturing owns four applets, used in this order over one set of production records. What each records, and the supporting applets owned elsewhere, are on Manufacturing in depth.
| Applet | For |
|---|---|
| Process Maintenance | The recipe: machines, process types, process and job templates. Moves no stock |
| Production Planning and Monitoring | The plan: job orders, their process instances, their links to sales-order lines |
| Manufacturing Operations | The floor: work logs, approvals, and the FINAL that moves stock |
| Packing Order Applet (Internal) | The pack: packing orders, the pick-pack queue, packed bins. Moves no stock and posts nothing |
An item made of other items without a job order is usually a bundle: Bundles and grouped items.
What moves stock, and at what value
A FINAL moves the materials out and the made item in at no carried cost; the accountant gives the finished item its cost with Reset MA. What moves stock, and at what value.
A job at GadgetSphere Distribution, in ringgit
What posts to the ledger
Nothing in the module posts a journal. What posts, and what does not.
Where a work-in-progress figure goes instead
On the WIP tab of the month’s Closing Stock Balance — Where a work-in-progress figure goes instead.
When manufacturing goes wrong
When manufacturing goes wrong, the symptom table, and How you know a job ran.