Bill of materials and contract-manufacturing work orders

Elements

The pieces this function usually contains in a large organisation:

• Bill of materials with versions
• Work orders
• Scrap and yield
• Costing roll-up

Catalog items that already cover part of it

• Work order parts and labor lines SVC-0003
• Production batch (prep) KDS?-0034

What is not described

bills of materials and routings.

Classification

Status

Present partially

Fit

Specialist: integrate or leave out (a specialist system usually owns this)

Suggested module

New module (suggested): Production and quality

Suggested attributes

Pro; priority Optional; always offline. Starting points only.

Cluster

Distribution, supply chain and wholesale

Public excerpts

domain analysis

Archetypes and companies

Industrial and technology manufacturers; Consumer-goods makers and bottlers; Agribusiness and food processing.

Example companies in these archetypes: GE, 3M, Honeywell, Intel, Dell, Apple, Procter & Gamble, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola bottlers, Kraft Heinz, Anheuser-Busch, ADM. These come from general knowledge unless a source code is shown on the archetype page; it is not a statement that each company runs every element, and it implies no relationship.

Closest industry pages

• Electronics, computers and network equipment
• Chemicals, plastics and rubber
• Building materials, paper, packaging and glass
• Apparel, textiles and footwear manufacturing
• Metals, mining and raw materials
• Household and personal products
• Beverages, brewing and bottling
• Food production and processing
• Agriculture, farming and cooperatives
• Fishing, forestry and aquaculture

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Status is a hand review against catalog names and descriptions and can be wrong. See the method.