Manufacturing
Bills of materials, routings and work centers, work orders from release to completion, production planning and MRP, quality control and the real cost of what you make.
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Getting started
How manufacturing works in Rocket ERP
The path from a bill of materials to finished goods in stock, what each screen is for, and how the manufacturing dashboard shows the state of production.Set up manufacturing settings
Choose the warehouses and GL accounts manufacturing uses in your branch, and the options that control reservations, consumption, traceability, posting and tolerances.
Engineering
Create a bill of materials (BOM)
Define the components, quantities, units, scrap allowance, yield and by-products of a manufactured product, so work orders know what to consume.Approve, clone and version a BOM
Move a bill of materials from draft to active, change a recipe safely by cloning a new version, and read the BOM detail page.Create and approve a routing
Describe the operations that make a product, their work centers, times and labor and overhead rates, then approve the routing so work orders can use it.Set up work centers
Register the machines, labor stations and subcontractors where operations run, with their capacity, efficiency and cost center, and link outsourced work to a supplier.
Production
Create a work order
Order the production of a quantity of a product from its approved BOM and routing, review the estimated cost, and check that the materials are in stock.Work order statuses and actions
What each work order status means, which action moves an order forward, and what release and start do to stock and reservations.Issue materials to a work order
Move the components of a released work order from the raw material warehouse to the work-in-progress warehouse, in full or in parts, with substitutes where the BOM allows them.Report production on a work order
Record the good and scrapped units at each routing operation, so finished goods enter stock in step with the work and the order's progress is always current.Complete a work order
Close a work order with its final good and scrapped quantities, by-products, spoilage type and lot or serial, and let the system settle the actual cost of the finished goods.Cancel or reverse a work order
Stop a work order that has not finished and roll back everything it moved, or undo a completed order with a reversal order that backs out its stock, cost and entries.Follow a work order from its page
Read a work order's progress, quantities, schedule and cost, its operations, materials, inspections, notes, activity and reservations, and print it.Run operations from the shop floor dashboard
See every work center and active work order at a glance, and start, pause, resume and complete operations, report scrap and log time where the work happens.
Production planning
Plan production and generate work orders
State how much of a product to make and by when, release the plan, then generate its work orders in one go or in batches and follow its progress.Run MRP and review component requirements
Turn a production forecast into released production plans, then see the total component demand of all open plans against the stock on hand.Check work center capacity
Compare the hours each work center offers with the hours its released work orders need over the next 7, 30 or 90 days, and spot overloaded centers early.
Quality
Record a quality inspection
Inspect the output of a work order against its checklist, record passed and failed quantities, measured values and a disposition, and let failures stop the order automatically.Place and release a quality hold
Freeze a work order while a quality problem is investigated, understand which inspections place a hold automatically, and release it when the problem is solved.Build quality checklists
Define the criteria inspectors check for a product or for all items, with check types, specifications and limits, and keep checklists active or retired.Read SPC control charts
Plot the values measured in quality inspections over time, see the control and specification limits, spot out-of-control points and check process capability (Cpk).
Costing and reports
How manufactured cost is calculated
How materials, labor and overhead collect on a work order, how the finished goods absorb that actual cost, how scrap and by-products are treated, and which journal entries post along the way.Analyse production cost variances
Compare the estimated and actual cost of completed work orders over a period, see which orders ran over or under budget, and export the results.Manage manufacturing cost centers
Create the cost centers your work centers belong to, rename them, and deactivate the ones you no longer use without losing their history.
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