BOMs, manufacturing orders and cost per run
Manufacturing software for India: write the recipe, check materials before release, issue them on a slip and record output shift by shift, with stock and cost kept right.
What goes wrong today
- Recipes kept in a spreadsheet nobody updates so the floor works from an old version
- A shortage found halfway through a run instead of before the order was released
- The same material promised to two jobs because nothing is set aside when work starts
- Cost per unit worked out once a year with scrap and offcuts left out of it
- A BOM with a scrap allowance, a saleable scrap line and conversion cost per run
- Revising an active BOM: a draft copy is edited while the active one stays untouched
- A manufacturing order showing a shortage, and a draft purchase request raised for it
- Releasing an order to reserve materials, then handing them over on a store issue slip
- Recording production in two shifts, each with its own output, scrap and cost per unit
How a production order works in Centrik
- 1
Write the bill of materials
List the components per unit with a scrap allowance, add scrap or by-product lines with their recovery value, and set the labour or overhead cost per run. A new BOM starts as a draft and is activated when it looks right.
- 2
Raise and check the order
Create a manufacturing order from a BOM, ad hoc, or against a sales order. The availability check compares needs with free stock, and a shortfall can become a draft purchase request.
- 3
Release and issue materials
Releasing the order reserves its materials at the source location. A store issue slip then hands them to the floor, in full or in part, ready to print for signatures.
- 4
Record each run
Record good units and scrap per shift. Raw materials leave stock, and finished goods, scrap and by-products arrive at the output location at their cost.
What you get with manufacturing
Bills of materials
- Components, scrap allowance, by-products, and labour or overhead cost per run
- Estimated cost per unit before you produce, net of what scrap and by-products can be sold for
- Draft, active and default BOMs per product
- Revise a BOM without losing the old one: every change is kept in history
Manufacturing orders
- Orders from a BOM, ad hoc for one-off jobs, or made to order against a sales order
- Material availability check before release, with a draft purchase request for any shortfall
- Release reserves materials at the source location, so no one else promises them
- Optional approval before an order is released, and on store issue slips
Store issue and production
- Store issue slips against a manufacturing order or straight to a department, printable for signatures
- Record output in one or more runs, and cancel a run that was entered by mistake
- Each run shows output, scrap, materials actually used and cost per unit
Traceability and reports
- Batch, serial number and expiry on finished goods
- Trace any finished batch back to the raw-material batches it was made from
- Consumption variance and material-used reports: standard against actual, per order and per material
- Send work outside on a challan with job work, and file ITC-04 from it
Keep reading
Frequently Asked Questions
An active BOM is never edited in place. You create a revision, which opens as a draft copy. When you activate it, the old revision is retired but kept, and the history shows what changed.