Manufacturing

In Rowdx

1. Sidebar
2. Manufacturing

included in the Business and Enterprise plans

For anyone who turns raw materials into a product: factory, bakery, central kitchen, carpentry shop, packaging plant. Rowdx calculates the raw materials needed for each quantity, consumes them from the warehouse when you produce, and adds the finished product at its true cost (materials + operations), so each product's profit is right.

Flow

1. Bill of materials
2. Work order
3. Material transfer
4. Job cards (optional)
5. Finished goods receipt

Before you start

1. Items: raw materials and finished products are all stock items. See Stock.
2. Warehouses: three are recommended: raw materials, work in progress, and finished goods. Set them as defaults in Manufacturing settings.
3. Workstations and Operations (optional): if you want machine and labour costing. For example a "Oven" workstation at SAR 40/hour and a "Baking" operation.

Bill of materials (the recipe)

In Rowdx

1. Manufacturing
2. Bills of materials
3. Add

1. Item: the finished product, and the quantity this BOM produces (e.g. 100 loaves).
2. In Items: each raw material and its quantity for that output (25 kg flour, 0.5 kg yeast…).
3. Operations (optional): tick With operations and add each operation, its workstation and time.
4. Expected scrap: a percentage or quantity of materials usually lost.
5. Save and submit, and tick Is default so it's used automatically.

The unit cost at the bottom is calculated from current material rates.

• BOM creator: build multi-level BOMs (a product with sub-assemblies that are themselves manufactured) in one tree.
• BOM update tool: replace one material with another in all BOMs at once, or refresh costs.
• BOM comparison: the difference between two versions of a recipe.

Work order

In Rowdx

1. Manufacturing
2. Work orders
3. Add, or from a sales order: **Create
4. Work order**

1. Item to manufacture; the default BOM is selected.
2. Quantity to manufacture.
3. Warehouses: source of materials, work in progress, and finished goods.
4. Planned start date.
5. Save and submit. The required materials and their stock show, with a warning if any is short.

Execution

1. Start (or Transfer materials for manufacture): moves materials from their warehouse to WIP.
2. If the order has operations, job cards are created per operation; the worker records start/end time and completed quantity.
3. Finish (or Manufacture): enter the quantity actually produced. Consumed materials are deducted and the finished product enters its warehouse at cost.

Simple production

If you don't need to track steps (a bakery or kitchen producing daily), create a stock entry with purpose Manufacture directly: choose the BOM and quantity, and materials are consumed and the product added in one document.

Production and material planning

In Rowdx

1. Manufacturing
2. Material planning
3. Production plans

For many orders at once:

1. Get sales orders or open material requests.
2. Get items to manufacture and their quantities.
3. Get raw materials: totals the materials needed for all orders, minus what's in stock.
4. Create work orders and material requests for the shortfall in one go.

The Master production schedule and Sales forecast plan further ahead from expected sales.

Downtime

In Rowdx

1. Manufacturing
2. Tools
3. Downtime entries

Record every machine stop (breakdown, no materials, maintenance) with reason and duration. The Downtime analysis report shows the most frequent causes.

Quality in manufacturing

Turn on quality inspection on the item (on receipt or before delivery) so an inspection is required before submitting. Details in Quality.

Reports

Report	Answers
Work order summary	Status of each order, quantity produced, delays
Work order consumed materials	Actual consumption vs the recipe
Job card summary	Actual time per operation and worker
Production analytics	Monthly production per item
Downtime analysis	Causes and duration of stops
BOM operations time	Planned time per operation in each BOM

Menu map

In Rowdx

1. Sidebar
2. Manufacturing

Main items

• BOMList
• Work OrderList
• Job CardList
• Stock EntryList

Material planning6

• Production PlanList
• Master Production ScheduleList
• Sales ForecastList
• Item Lead TimeList
• Exponential Smoothing ForecastingReport
• Production Planning ReportReport

Tools4

• BOM CreatorList
• BOM Update ToolList
• BOM comparison toolScreen
• Downtime EntryList

Setup8

• ItemList
• WarehouseList
• OperationList
• WorkstationList
• Workstation TypeList
• Plant FloorList
• RoutingList
• Manufacturing SettingsList

Reports8

• Work Order SummaryReport
• Work Order Consumed MaterialsReport
• Job Card SummaryReport
• Production AnalyticsReport
• Downtime AnalysisReport
• Quality Inspection SummaryReport
• BOM SearchReport
• BOM Operations TimeReport

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