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A plan works out what a unit costs before anything is cut. What comes off the line is counted as finished or as waste, both at that cost — so the run reconciles, and the loss is a figure in the ledger rather than a shrug.
What is in it
Pick the item, the quantity and the dates, list the raw materials against their live stock, and the per-unit cost is worked out as you type. Assign a team and a responsible person before it can be approved.
See how it worksSave a plan’s material list as a template and the next run of the same item starts filled in. Link a plan to a work order, or to a customer when it is being made to order.
See how it worksA board per run, with cards moving through Open, Working-Process, On-Hold and Completed. The list shows each run’s cost and how far through it is, as a percentage.
See how it worksWhat came off the line, at the plan’s unit cost, with how much of it has been transferred into sellable inventory — all of it, some of it, or none yet.
See how it worksScrap is its own record against the same plan, costed the same way. It is not transferred into stock, which is exactly why the loss stays visible.
See how it worksWhere it comes from
Four things have to be real before a run can start: an item to make, the materials to make it from, somewhere they actually are, and somebody whose name is on it.
Total amount, total quantity and cost per unit, worked out from the material lines as you add them — before a single piece is made.
Leave the material list empty and the form says so: “Please add stock details to proceed with plan approval.” A plan with no bill of materials can be saved as a draft, and cannot be approved.
Day to day
Four stages, and the quantity is carried through all four rather than re-entered at each one.
The item, the quantity, the dates, the materials against their live stock. The per-unit cost appears as you go.
Each run becomes a pipeline with a Kanban board — cards move through Open, Working-Process, On-Hold and Completed.
Good pieces go to Finished Goods, bad ones to Waste Goods, both against the plan and both at its unit cost.
Finished goods are transferred into sellable stock — all, some or none of them, and the status says which.
How it holds
Both are about the gap between what you planned to make and what you actually have on a shelf at the end of it.
Five hundred planned came out as 485 finished and 15 scrapped, and both records carry the plan’s own unit cost. So the run reconciles on quantity and on money at the same time: 96,030 of sellable goods and 2,970 of loss against a 99,000 plan. Nothing is rounded away, and the scrap is not simply absent.
Output sits in Finished Goods until it is transferred into inventory, and the record says whether that has happened for all of it, some of it or none. Waste is never transferred at all — which is how 15 pieces of scrap stay a cost rather than quietly becoming stock somebody expects to sell.
Every plan also takes an internal note and up to 5MB of attachments, so a spec sheet or a customer drawing stays with the run.
Why it matters
Most small manufacturers find out what a run cost once it is over, by adding up invoices. By then the price has already been quoted.
What comes out
Mostly on the lists themselves, because the figures that matter here are per run rather than per month.
That last one is not a report either. The 15 scrapped pieces at 198 each are the 2,970 sitting in Work-In-Process Inventory on the balance sheet — the same number, because it is the same event.
Getting started
How long it takes depends on how you work and what has to come across from wherever it lives now. That is what the second step is for — and nothing is committed before it.
30 days, no card, nothing to install. Put a real week of your own work through it rather than a demo of ours.
We go through how you actually work — the documents, who should see what, and what has to come across into manufacturing.
Modules configured to that, roles set screen by screen, and your team taken through the parts they will each use.
Phone, email or online, from the team that built it. Nobody hands you to a reseller once the invoice is paid.
Questions
Yes. You list the raw materials and their quantities on the plan and the total amount, total production quantity and per-unit cost are calculated as you type. The plan cannot be approved with an empty material list.
Yes. Tick "save as template" on a plan and it joins your template list; the next run of that item starts from it. A plan can also be tied to a work order or to a customer when it is being made to order.
Each run has a pipeline with a board — Open, Working-Process, On-Hold, Completed — and the pipeline list shows completion as a percentage beside the run’s cost and deadline.
They go to Waste Goods against the same plan, at the same unit cost, and they are never transferred into inventory. Good and bad together come back to the quantity you planned, so the run balances instead of losing a few pieces along the way.
It is an explicit transfer, and the record tracks how much of the output has been moved — transferred, partially transferred or not transferred. That way something sitting finished in the factory is not counted as available to sell.
There is a labour time field on finished and waste records, but it is not being captured — it reads zero on every run, so nothing on this page depends on it. Costing today comes from materials and the plan’s own unit cost. Ask us where it stands before you plan around it.
The rest of it
Start the trial and put a week of real work through it, or have us walk you through manufacturing against the way you already do it.