Production, recipes (BOM) and batches
The production supervisor's screen. It tells you what to make, checks the ingredients, and records the batch so QC and packing can pick it up.
What you see
Open Production. The top list is Work Orders to Produce: the product, how much is needed, which sales order it is for and what is still pending. Below it are completed batches and the shift performance report.
Add a recipe (BOM)
A recipe lists the raw materials and packing items needed per unit of the finished good. You can add it on the product itself, or formulate it on the spot when you launch a batch. It is saved for next time.
Launch a batch
- Find the work order and open it. For a batch with no order behind it, choose Direct Make-to-Stock.
- Enter the batch number and the quantity you are making now.
- Review the ingredient list. Sankalp multiplies the recipe by your batch size and shows available stock beside each ingredient.
- Enter shift, machine or line and the operator.
- Click Launch Production Batch.
Ingredients are deducted from stock when the batch is launched.
If an ingredient is short
You will see a warning with the material, the quantity needed and what is available. Either get the material first (ask purchase, see Purchase and suppliers) or deliberately override and continue if you know the stock figure is wrong. Overriding is recorded.
Make part of the order now
Enter a smaller quantity than the work order. The rest stays open as a work order for the next batch.
Rejection or scrap
If part of the batch is rejected, enter the rejected quantity and the reason when you record the batch. The good quantity moves on to QC or packing.
When a batch fails
A batch that fails QC is marked failed and the quantity comes back as owed. Use Reproduce This Batch to make it again without losing the order's requirement.
After the batch
With QC enabled the batch waits in QC. Without QC it goes straight to the packing list. Either way the next team is notified.
Common mistakes
- Launching with the wrong batch quantity. If it is wrong, undo from packing before it is packed, or correct it as a rejection with a reason.
- Skipping the recipe. Without it nothing is deducted, so raw material stock slowly becomes fiction.