The BOM lives in a spreadsheet
Component lists are maintained separately from the item catalogue, so a change in one is a silent divergence from the other.
Manufacturing
Production that consumes the stock you actually have
Work orders against a bill of materials, run on defined production lines, with quality control results held against the output — not in a separate quality folder.
Five tools · Consumes Inventory stock · Feeds Finance with real cost
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Before Caspian ERP
The plan assumes material the shelf does not have
Production planning built on a stock figure from another system is planning on a rumour.
Work orders do not consume anything
Material is drawn for a job and stock is corrected later, which means neither the job cost nor the stock figure is right in between.
Quality results sit apart from the batch
The inspection record exists, but linking it back to what was produced and from which lot is a manual exercise.
What it does
A production module that shares the operation’s data
Small and focused by design — it uses the item catalogue, the stock records and the people the rest of the platform already holds.
Work orders that consume real stock
A job with its material, its line and its status, drawing from the same warehouse records as everything else.
- Work orders with quantity, dates and status
- Components issued from stock as a real movement
- Assigned to a production line and to people
- Job cost built from material actually consumed
Bills of materials on the shared catalogue
BOM components are catalogue items, so availability is a fact rather than an assumption.
- Multi-component bills built from the shared item catalogue
- Availability checked against actual warehouse stock
- A shortage is visible before the job is released
- One change to the item propagates everywhere it is used
Production lines with visible load
Define the lines you run and see what is scheduled on each.
- Production lines as records with their own capacity view
- Work orders scheduled against a line
- Current load visible before you promise a date
- Downtime linked to maintenance rather than guessed at
Quality control against the output
Inspection results attached to what was produced and the lot it came from.
- QC checks recorded against the work order
- Pass, fail and rework captured rather than described
- Traceable to the inventory lot the material came from
- Non-conformances can raise HSEQ actions with owners
From a bill of materials to a checked output
Every step touches records other modules already own.
Bill of materials
Work order
Components issued
Production line
Quality control
Output to stock
Every tool in the module
Five tools for production
Focused on the manufacturing operations of industrial and fabrication businesses.
Manufacturing Dashboard
Current production state — orders in progress, line load, output and quality results in one view.
Work Orders
Production jobs with quantity, dates, assigned line and the components they consume from stock.
Bill of Materials
Component structures built from the shared item catalogue, so availability reflects the real warehouse.
Production Lines
The lines or cells you actually run, with what is scheduled on each and how loaded they are.
Quality Control
Inspection and test results recorded against the work order and traceable to the lot used.
Connected, not bolted on
Production sits between stock, people and cost
Which is exactly why it works better inside the ERP than beside it.
Components come from stock
Issuing material to a work order is a stock movement, so the warehouse figure and the job cost move together.
Line equipment is maintained
The machines on a production line are assets with preventive plans, so planned downtime is visible to the planner.
Real cost, not standard cost
Material consumed is material recorded, so the cost of a job is built from movements rather than estimated.
Who lives in it
For the people on and around the line
Planner, supervisor and inspector, working from one record.
Production planner
Releases work orders knowing whether the components are on the shelf and whether the line has capacity.
Line supervisor
Runs the day from the work order list, records progress, and sees planned maintenance before it interrupts a run.
Quality inspector
Records results against the work order and the lot, so traceability is a query rather than an archaeology project.
Yours to shape
Configure manufacturing to what you make
Fabrication, assembly and batch production need different shapes. This is configuration, not customisation.
- Define your own production lines, cells or workshops
- Build bills of materials to whatever depth your products need
- Choose the work-order statuses that match your shop-floor language
- Decide whether a shortage blocks release or raises a warning
- Set quality checks per product, and whether a failure blocks output to stock
Manufacturing · Settings
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| Production lines | 4 active |
| Component shortage | Warn on release |
| QC before stock | Required |
| Work order statuses | Custom (6) |
| Backflush material | On completion |
Manufacturing questions we get asked
Is this a full MES?
No. It is the production layer of an ERP: work orders, bills of materials, lines and quality control, sharing the item catalogue and stock with the rest of the platform. It does not do machine-level shop-floor control.
Does a work order actually reduce stock?
Yes. Issuing components to a work order creates real stock movements against the warehouse, which is why the job cost and the stock figure stay consistent with each other.
Can we see whether we have the components before releasing?
Yes — the bill of materials is built from the shared catalogue, so availability is checked against actual warehouse stock rather than an assumed quantity.
How does quality control link to traceability?
QC results are recorded against the work order, and where components are lot-tracked in Inventory, the output traces back to the lots consumed.
What if we only assemble occasionally?
Then switch the module on and use work orders alone. Every tool can be enabled individually, so a workshop that assembles a few units a month does not need to adopt production lines and BOM depth it will not use.