Manufacturing plans

Most products go through the same steps every time. Cut, sew, finish, pack. Or assemble, test, QC. Until now, Orderkraft didn’t know about any of that. A manufacturing order arrived as a single block of work, and the steps lived on a whiteboard or in someone’s head.

A manufacturing plan writes those steps down once. Tell Orderkraft which products the plan is for, and every new manufacturing order for those products gets the steps as work orders, in the right order.

Added

• A Settings → Manufacturing plans page to create, edit and manage your plans.
• Steps inside a plan. Each step becomes a work order on the manufacturing order, so the floor sees “Sewing” and “Final QC” instead of one status for the whole job.
• Work order templates: reusable kinds of work like “Final QC”. Make one once and pick it in every plan that needs it.
• Dependencies between steps. Sewing waits for cutting. Packing waits for both finishing and the quality check. Steps without a dependency between them can run at the same time.
• Targets that decide which products a plan applies to: a variant, a whole product, or a Shopify collection.
• A default plan for the shop, used for any product that no other plan targets.
• An auto-complete switch per plan. When it’s on, finishing the last work order also completes the manufacturing order. When it’s off, someone completes it by hand, which is what you want if a finished piece needs a sign-off first.

How a plan gets picked

When a made-to-order, personalised or built-on-the-fly line item sells, Orderkraft looks for the most specific plan: one that targets the variant, then the product, then a collection the product is in, then the shop’s default plan. The plan’s steps are copied onto the manufacturing order. Editing the plan later doesn’t change orders that already have it.

If nothing matches and there’s no default plan, the manufacturing order arrives without work orders, the same as before.

Docs

• Manufacturing plans explains steps, dependencies and how matching works.
• Set up manufacturing plans walks through creating your first plan.