Small production
Small production keeps the recipe of each product you make, alone or with a team: its bill of materials, the materials and how much of each one unit takes.
Bills of materials, production orders that show what is short, draft purchase orders by an AI agent, lots for each material and batch, and the cost of each product. For a small maker of soap, candles, food, drinks or furniture, alone or with a team and several workshops.
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Products, Business details, Contacts, Suppliers, Supplier deliveries, Stock movements, Lots, Serial numbers, Purchase orders, Purchase requests, Production orders
Try it freeWhat it does for you
The base works out what the materials of each product cost, and the cost follows when a material's price changes. A product can also be made of sub-assemblies: a candle set holds a candle, a wax melt and a box, and the candle has a bill of materials of its own. The cost of the set is worked out through every level, from the materials.
Plan a batch with a production order: the product and how many. The base lists the materials the batch needs and shows at once what is short, so a batch never stops half made for a missing material. Put the hours of work and the hourly rate on the order, and the batch's cost holds the labour beside the materials; with Staff, the rate is the maker's. A sub-assembly is made ahead in its own production order and kept in stock: the batch of the set takes it from its On hand as it takes a material, and for the part that is short, the order lists the materials that making it takes.
- When an order is short, an AI agent drafts a purchase order to each supplier for what is missing. A material that falls below its reorder level can be ordered the same way: Order up to the reorder level drafts one purchase order that brings it up to the level, unless a draft or an ordered purchase order holds it already. You check the draft and send it; the agent sends nothing.
- Each delivery comes in as a lot, with the supplier's lot code and its expiry date. A material that came in two lots is not a problem: a line can draw from several lots, and Pick the lots fills them first expiry first. Pick the lots on the order, finish it, and the materials leave stock while the batch enters stock with its own lot number, its best before from the product's shelf life and its material lots, and its label to print. Every morning the base mails you the material lots that expire soon.
- When a supplier recalls a lot, open it: the base lists every batch that used it. The job ticket goes on the bench with the batch, and the batch label goes on each box.
- With staff, you give each production order to a maker, who gets a mail with the job ticket and sees only the orders given to them; a buyer receives the materials and sends the purchase orders. With two workshops or more, each order, lot and stock row has its workshop, and with Reports the Reporter writes each workshop's report every Monday.
- With Orders, production is planned from what was sold. A product shows Ordered, what the customers have ordered and not yet had, and To make, Ordered minus On hand. The list To make for orders shows what to make, and Plan a batch for the orders makes one planned production order for it, unless a planned or in progress order covers it already. When the order is shipped, its goods leave stock and Ordered falls.
Make it yours
Your business is not quite like any other. Ask the assistant for what is missing, in your own words: a new step, an email, a list, a rule. Every change is shown before it happens, and any change can be undone.
Add the hours of work to each production order, and put them in the cost of the batch.Give each product its allergens, and print them on the batch label.
Add-ons that change it
Each of these adds one more thing to your base. Tick the ones you want when you create your base, and add or remove them later in Settings, Modules.
Approvals
A document above the approval amount of Business details waits for the approval of the owner or a manager.
Locations
The places where the business works: shops, branches, clinics, warehouses, depots, venues and vans.
Orders
Orders from contacts, with their lines.
Reports
The reports that agents write each week or month.
Staff
Contacts who work for the business: their job, their place and their team.
Stock by location
How much of each product each location holds.