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Manufacturing Management: Manufacturing Jobs
Last updated on March 6th, 2025
Introduction to Manufacturing Jobs
Note: Only users with roles Manufacturing Staff or Manufacturing Manager will be able to interact with manufacturing jobs. Please ensure users are set up with the correct roles.
To put it simply, manufacturing jobs are the process by which costs are recorded for each item that is physically being produced before it is marked as received. Manufacturing jobs follow a similar process to customer jobs, but are streamlined as no payment or customer interaction takes place. The general flow is as follows:
- Choose the production order number that is to be produced by the job
- Note that if the job is created directly from the production order, this will be pre-filled.
- Choosing the production order to match will automatically populate the BOM with the manufacturing processes for each item from the order.
- Fill in any title, tag, details necessary and save the job.
- (Optional) Reserve available stock or create picking slips.
- Schedule workers and purchase/receive any remaining necessary materials for the job.
- Consume stock as it is used, record workers’ time against the job
- (Optional) Create delivery dockets for items recorded to the job.
- When the items are produced, record the job’s outputs.
- This will create a Goods Receipt specific to this job.
- Note that this can be done multiple times, and will mark the job as “Complete” when all estimated outputs have been recorded.
If you need to re-open the job for any reason, the job can be re-activated at any time.
The Manufacturing Jobs List
The list of manufacturing jobs is located next to where the list for customer jobs is found on both the navigation menu at the top of the screen and on the Navigation Dashboard. The list will look similar to that of customer jobs.
The recommended way of creating a manufacturing job is directly from one of the production orders, but you can also create one via the Add button on the list. Note that you will not be able to save the job unless there is a valid production order associated with it!
Creating/Editing a Manufacturing Job
The first thing to do when creating or editing a manufacturing job is to set which Production Order it is linked to. Each manufacturing job’s top level Bill of Materials will be set automatically by the associated Production Order, and so there will not be much that needs to be changed when setting up a manufacture job. Job title, etc. will help with organisation but it is not strictly necessary. Please refer to the Customer Jobs section for basic information about what each of the tabs and Job Actions not covered by this section do.
At the bottom of the page, “Process Outputs” replaces the options to quote and to complete the job. This button is a shortcut to the Outputs page where completed items created from processing the job can be recorded.
For the Bill of Materials page, if you need to modify any of the input components for the job then this can be done by using the plus icon next to the input process icon and the 
icon at the end of each row.
The Job Actions for manufacturing jobs include Edit, Schedule, Purchase, Reserve, Pick, Consume, Deliver, Job Costs, Cost Flows (so long as Cost Adjustments is enabled), and the Outputs action.
When on the Outputs page, you will be able to process outputs to receive outputs from this job and see each of the goods receipts for this job to date.
Clicking the “Process Outputs” button will let you create a new goods receipt for this job.
Modifying the quantities of the templates and items in the BOM may be done in order to set the expected quantity of items you want to consume, but doing so will not affect the overall quantity of items that the job is expected to output. If you wish to output more or less items, this can be done by changing the received quantity on the goods receipt.
