Manufacturing

Plan production against your own pipeline, move orders through it, and group work into batches.

Your stages, not a fixed list

Before creating manufacturing orders, set up your production stages under Settings → Production stages — Cutting → Sewing → QC → Packed, or whatever your floor actually does. Stages are ordered, and you mark one as the final stage; a manufacturing order counts as Done the moment it reaches that stage, and Open otherwise. There's no built-in status list to fight — it's entirely whatever you define here.

Creating a manufacturing order

Go to Manufacturing and click New manufacturing order.
Pick the product to produce (only items that have a recipe show up here) and the planned quantity.
The order starts at your first configured stage.

Moving an order forward is a one-click Move to [next stage] action on its row — it always advances to whatever stage comes immediately after its current one in your configured order.

Three views: Schedule, Tasks, Board

Schedule is the default table view — one row per order, sortable and filterable by order number, product, quantity, and stage.
Tasks flattens every open order against your full stage list, so you can see at a glance which stages are done, in progress, or not started for each order.
Board lays orders out by due date so the most urgent work is easy to spot, independent of which stage it's currently in.

Batching orders together

If several manufacturing orders are being run together — e.g. one cutting run producing several sizes of the same style — select them with the row checkboxes and Group selected into a batch, giving the batch a name. A batch shows as one block with all its orders nested inside, and as long as every order in it shares the same current stage, you get a single Move whole batch to [next stage] action instead of clicking each order individually. Ungroup splits a batch back into individual orders at any time.

How this connects to stock

A manufacturing order's planned quantity and recipe (see Items & BOMs) determine what materials it will consume and what it produces. Completing production against a work center on the shop floor is what actually moves those quantities — see Shop floor for that side of it, and Stock & traceability for how production runs show up as lots.