Manufacturing · India
Built for Indian plants. Production planning and MRP turn demand into a plan. The plan becomes work orders and purchase orders. And every job carries what it really cost — material, labour, machine time, job work and scrap.
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Three screens, one plan. The bill of materials names every part. MRP turns the demand into make and buy orders. The schedule gives each operation a machine and a date.
Where the plan comes from
A production planning run reads three things: the forecast, the master demand, and the orders customers have actually placed. It gives back a list of what to make and what to buy, each one dated.
MRP works down the levels. A planned order for a finished item raises planned orders for its sub-assemblies. Those raise planned orders for their components. Each one records its level and the order above it. So when you ask why the plant is buying a bearing in March, the answer traces back to the order that needs it.
What a product is, and how it gets made
Make to order
In make to order, a work order raised from a sales order carries that order and that line the whole way through the shop. Ask what a customer is waiting for and the answer is on screen. Not a walk to the floor.
The work order says where it came from — a sales order, a service order, the plan — so make to order and make to stock are not the same pile.
Planned start and finish sit next to what really happened, on the order and on each operation. Slippage is visible while it is still slippage.
Queued, running, assembled, scrapped — per operation. Work in progress is a number, not an estimate.
The Indian part
Sending material out for plating, machining or heat treatment is normal in India. It is also where most systems lose track. The material leaves, the charge arrives weeks later, and the cost of the part stays wrong until somebody works it out by hand.
What goes out stays on the books as stock you own, held at the job worker. It does not vanish from the system the moment it is despatched.
The job worker's bill goes against the work order it belongs to. Not into a general overhead account that nobody can separate out later.
Job work sits beside material, labour and machine time on the cost sheet, so you can see what you are paying to send work out.
The number that matters
Month-end tells you the factory made money. It does not tell you which jobs made it and which jobs lost it. In job costing, the cost sits on the work order itself.
Each work order carries its own cost sheet, so a job that ran over is a job you can name.
Scrapped and reworked quantities are recorded on the operation that produced them, which is how you find out where yield goes.
Production cost posts through to accounts, so the shop floor and the books are describing the same month.
Quality
A quality check here is not a tick box. It carries a minimum, a maximum, and the value someone actually measured. A batch was either inside the band or it was not.
A production order you know lost money, and the paperwork behind it. That is the one worth walking through, because it is where the difference between a costing system and a spreadsheet shows up.
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