The manufacturing board

Manufacturing plans gave every order its steps. What they didn’t give you was one place to see where all those orders are. You could open each manufacturing order and check which work order was in progress, but nobody wants to do that for forty orders on a Monday morning.

The manufacturing board puts your process on one screen, left to right. Every manufacturing order sits in the stage where its work is waiting or under way, and moves on to the next stage when that work is done.

Added

• A Manufacturing board. Reach it from Manufacturing orders with the new zoom-out button next to the heading.
• Columns and stages you set up yourself. Each stage follows one of your work order templates, so “Upholstery” on the board shows every order with upholstery work waiting or in progress. Steps that happen at the same time can share a column.
• Cards for every order, with the order number, the product and variant, the quantity, and the status of the step. Orders on hold stay where they are, marked On hold. Click a card to open the manufacturing order.
• A count on every stage, so you can see where work is piling up.
• Search by order number, SKU or product, and sort every stage by ship-by date, creation date or start date.
• A location switcher, for shops that produce in more than one place.

Changed

• The board, the manufacturing orders list and the work orders list are now linked with zoom buttons, so you can go from the whole process down to a single work order and back. The location you picked stays selected.
• The location switcher on the manufacturing orders list moved next to the heading.

Docs

• Manufacturing board explains columns, stages and which orders show up where.
• Set up the manufacturing board walks through building your first board.