Assembly and repacking

Warehouse Manager uses a bill of materials and a production routing to define a kit or repacked output. The recipe states the output basis and each component quantity. Operations name the ordered instructions, labour basis and terminal operation. Product and unit versions matter because a changed master must not recalculate an accepted work order after material is issued.

A work order names its legal entity, warehouse, output product, planned quantity, manager, effective recipe, routing and output standard. Its release is a human decision on the frozen scope. Material reservations and issues then trace each required component. Actual production entries capture throughput, scrap and labour at an operation; intermediate good counts cannot be added together as finished output.

• Frozen basis. The released work order retains the recipe, routing, quantity and standard used to approve it.
• Actual work. Assigned operations record start, end, good quantity, scrap and labour evidence.
• Cost relief. Completion allocates actual WIP to accepted terminal output and records the variance separately.

Agree who owns the recipe and who independently activates changes to it. Define product-specific units, allowed planned loss, operation sequence and the output standard. Warehouse Manager decides whether material and labour evidence is sufficient to release and close a work order. Finance Manager reviews required variance or cost decisions; Accountant reconciles WIP and postings. A customer order line may be linked to the work order, but the output remains a product quantity in a warehouse, with its own stock event.

Choose how warehouse staff record issue, return and scrap. Unused issued components should be returned explicitly. A partially completed work order retains its remaining planned and material scope, rather than presenting the full planned quantity as finished stock.

Build a packaged set of stocked components for a customer order. The approved recipe specifies input quantities for a stated output basis. Release the work order only after the right output product, standard, routing and positive planned quantity are present. Reserve the material, issue only what the first run needs and record the actual operation. If some input is scrapped, retain the scrap quantity and cost evidence rather than hiding it in finished units.

Confirm a terminal completion for the accepted output. It should create stock once and relieve only the WIP assigned to that completion. Another operation entry cannot create a second finished batch from the same terminal quantity. Before closing, reconcile remaining material, output and variance; an independent decision is needed where residual variance requires one.

• Production schedule — Warehouse Manager sees released work and planned start and end dates.
• My operation assignments — Warehouse Operator records assigned operations and actual work.
• Warehouse availability — The team sees accepted output once it has become owned stock.

See stock through assembly and order through settlement.