The order, the work order and the stock are the same conversation.
When a sales order lands, the material requirement, the production schedule and the invoice all come from it. No one re-enters a part number, and nobody finds out at dispatch that a component was never ordered.
What usually breaks
- Production plans built in a spreadsheet that is a day behind the sales team
- Stock figures that only reconcile at month end, by which point it is too late
- Costing done after delivery, so a job that lost money looks like one that made it
- Bills of material
- Multi-level, with versions and alternates.
- Work orders
- Scheduled against real capacity and material.
- Job cards
- Operation-level tracking on the shop floor.
- Quality inspection
- Checks at goods-in, in process and at dispatch.
- Material planning
- Requirements raised from confirmed demand.
- Batch and serial tracking
- Full traceability from supplier to customer.
- Subcontracting
- Material issued out and received back, accounted.
- Landed cost
- Freight and duty absorbed into item value.
- Order to dispatch
- Quote accepted, sales order confirmed
- Material requirement raised, shortfall purchased
- Work order scheduled, job cards to the floor
- Quality inspection recorded against the batch
- Delivery note and invoice from the same order
- Job costing updates as it goes, so margin is visible before delivery rather than after.
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