Processing

A work order uses an active bill of materials and routing for a named output material. The planned quantity, output basis, standard cost and stockpile establish its release scope. Warehouse Manager checks these facts and the assigned operations before approving release. Material needs become reservations; issuing input material is a stock event with an associated cost entry.

• Source. Freeze the active recipe, routing and output basis before work release.
• Decision. Warehouse Manager approves the planned quantity and standard cost.
• Evidence. Warehouse Operator records issued input, operation progress and terminal accepted output as separate events.

Warehouse Operator records actual operation throughput, scrap and labor hours. An intermediate operation is progress evidence, while a terminal completion establishes accepted output. Processing Completions allocate actual work-in-progress cost to finished quantity and show standard output value and variance. The close decision reviews residual variance rather than simply changing a label.

Agree how input units convert to output units, which operation completes the routing and who reviews residual cost variance. Review the roles that can prepare, approve and correct the record. Keep the source revision and its later decisions linked for audit.

For a repacking run, rehearse a partial output from an input lot. Verify required, issued, returned and consumed material separately. Record an operation entry and only the accepted terminal output as finished stock. Compare the output value with accumulated cost and retain the variance for Finance Manager review.

Repack a partial lot and compare issued, consumed and returned material with accepted terminal output before closing the work order. Ask the receiving role to open the source and confirm the remaining quantity, decision and event date. Preserve a linked correction if an earlier event needs to be amended.

Agree the handling of scrap and returned input before releasing work. A stopped operation still retains the material issued and labor evidence already recorded. The completion review compares actual input and output to the frozen instruction, with any difference carried into the cost discussion.

• Processing schedule — Show released and active work with planned start and end dates.
• Stockpile availability — Show material available for an approved input reservation.

Read the main flow and the connected handoff.