Plan to produce

Step by step

1. Demand Production Planner

   Production Planner identifies approved remaining sales demand, eligible contract delivery cycles and safety-stock needs within the entity, warehouse and horizon. A generated order replaces its contract cycle’s demand. Direct service billing does not create physical production requirements.

   • Identify remaining physical requirements
   • Updates Sales order items, Contract cycles, Inventory reservations, Inventory

2. Plan Production Planner

   Production Planner captures an MRP run with engineering, demand and supply snapshots. Components are netted against eligible unclaimed stock and remaining firm receipts or work orders. Planned orders retain their source requirement and exceptions; firmed supply is not generated again on a later run.

   • Propose net supply once
   • Updates MRP runs, Planned orders, Requisitions, BOMs

3. Release Production Planner

   Production Planner reviews and firms the work order, freezing its BOM, routing, quantity, conversions, quality points and separate cost/rate bases. Missing material or engineering evidence remains explicit. Later changes require a controlled revision rather than replacing the plan already running.

   • Authorize the frozen production plan
   • Updates Work orders, Work order components, Document revisions
   ApprovalA person approves before the work moves on.

4. Issue Warehouse Operator or Operator

   Warehouse Operator or an authorized Operator consumes exact component reservations into WIP at captured issue cost. Configured backflush and explicit issues share the same remaining requirement, so they cannot issue it twice. Returns retain original-issue lineage and exclude consumed quantities.

   • Move claimed material value to WIP
   • Updates Stock events, Inventory reservations, Work order components

5. Execute Operator

   Operator reports assigned work, time, good quantity and scrap against the operation and lot. Plant Manager coordinates the floor within the released plan and approves assigned time. Approved timesheet sources retain their work-order and cost-centre allocation and cannot be consumed twice by costing or payroll.

   • Record unique production and approved labour
   • Updates Production log, Timesheet lines, Work order cost entries

6. Inspect Quality Inspector

   Quality Inspector decides the required presented scope at its current revision. First-article permission authorizes continuation; final release covers only completed accepted output. Holds and rejected pieces remain excluded from shipment. Reinspection references earlier decisions without adding accepted quantity again.

   • Release the actual inspected scope
   • Updates Quality inspections, Work order operations
   ApprovalA person approves before the work moves on.

7. Receive completion Operator

   Operator records the eligible terminal-operation output through the controlled completion action. The finished-stock receipt retains its lot or serial and WIP cost relief. Good counts from intermediate operations are not summed into finished quantity, and partial completion leaves the remaining work and cost in WIP.

   • Receive eligible terminal output once
   • Updates Production completions, Stock events, Inventory

8. Close Production Planner

   Production Planner reviews resolved component, quantity, quality and cost obligations with the required Controller variance evidence. Close posts authorized residual variances from the frozen material, labour and overhead bases. Subsequent corrections preserve the original work and use linked effects in a permitted period.

   • Resolve WIP and post reviewed variances
   • Updates Work orders, Work order cost entries, Journal entries
   ApprovalA person approves before the work moves on.

Production Planner

Plans, releases and closes.

Plant Manager

Coordinates the floor and approved time.

Operator

Executes assigned work.

Warehouse Operator

Issues stock.

Quality Inspector

Releases quality scope.

Buyer

Purchases shortages.

Controller

Reviews financial variance.