Production

From bill of materials to finished goods

A bill of materials becomes a production order. The work is planned, scheduled on your machines or sent to a job worker, run on the shop floor, and received back into stock.

In the Manufacturing plan

Planning the make

Bills of materials

BOMs per operation, where each line knows the part it plays. A production order pins the BOM version and routing it was raised with.

Job rates and wastages

A cost for every operation and an expected loss, so wastage is planned rather than discovered.

Costing orders

Cost a job before you quote it. The approved cost sheet sets the item’s cost and price, and can need a controller’s approval above a threshold.

Material requirements planning

Four to twenty-six weeks ahead: requirements from job, production and sale orders, exploded through the BOMs and netted against stock, transit and open orders, to safety stock with lead times. Confirming raises draft purchase and production orders.

Doing the work

Production orders

The instruction to make a finished good, closed by its finished-goods receipt into stock at the cost the costing order set.

Job orders, in-house or contract

Each operation has one performer — your own unit or a contractor. Approving the job order raises its goods issue, and its status follows the work through to completion.

Contractors on the same master

Job workers are stakeholders like everyone else, and ITC-04 is prepared from what you sent them and what came back.

Work in progress in the books

Issued material sits in work in progress until the finished goods are received; a contractor’s bill clears its job-work accrual, and unused material returns out of WIP. See work in progress by order at any time.

Close short, and cost what ran

Close an order short with a reason and the work in progress left on it goes to a variance. Once an order is complete, its machine time at each machine’s hourly rate is set against what was absorbed, and the difference posts to its own variance account.

Lot genealogy

Which lots went into a produced batch, and where that batch went.

Machines and the schedule

Work centres and machines

Work centres with a cost per hour, machines taken from the fixed-asset register, what each can do and how fast, and a calendar of shifts, closures and maintenance.

Load view

Load against available hours for every work centre and day, with over-capacity flagged and orders that do not fit the calendar listed.

Schedule board

Every machine on a timeline. Drag a job to a new time or another capable machine; the move is checked for overlaps, operator double-booking and step order.

Operators and crews

Each work centre has a pool of operators with their skills and leave, and each machine a crew size. Planning gives a machine hours only when enough of its crew is in, puts skilled operators first, and leave never stops a run you start by hand.

Auto-schedule

Up to thirty orders, earliest due first, each step on the capable machine that finishes it soonest within free working time. You confirm the whole proposal or none of it.

The shop floor

Live machine tiles

Every machine idle, running, paused, stopped or down, with its clock.

Runs and checks

Start a run with its operator, pause with a reason, stop with good and rejected quantities — and a stop is refused until the required in-process checks are recorded.

Downtime with reasons

Every stop recorded as planned or unplanned with its reason, and a day timeline of why machines stood.

Utilisation and OEE

Available, running and idle hours, idle time by reason with the unexplained part on its own line, and OEE as availability × performance × quality.

Not yet in the product

Being built and not yet in the product. Ask us where each one stands.

Operators’ shifts and leave taken straight from Tathven HRMS when planning machine time — today they are kept on the ERP’s own roster.

Works with

See plans and prices

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See Tathven Agentic ERP running on
your own numbers

Tell us what you run today. We will show Tathven Agentic ERP working on a sample of your own data, then send a written scope and quotation — not a brochure.