Manufacturing
Turning bought things into made things, and knowing what it cost.
Bills of materials, routings, work centres, production orders, quality and costing. Releasing an order checks availability; issuing consumes by FEFO and records lot genealogy; completing books the finished goods and sends the variance where variances go. Production versions choose the bill, routing and make, buy or subcontract from a sales order line’s attributes, and a subcontracted item is made by a vendor from components provided to it. A configured product is planned and made from its own configuration, its bill shown as a tree of levels.
Watch for: Release blocks on a shortage unless somebody overrides it with a reason — and the reason is kept on the order.
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Design
What the product is, the drawing that says so, and the authority to change either.
Plan
What the plant commits to, what would have to happen for it to be met, and the pull loops underneath.
Make
The work in front of each machine, what was made, and the record that proves how.
Control
What is measured, what was wrong, and where a lot came from and went.
Plant Equipment
The machines, how well they ran, and the two ways they talk.
Maintain
Keeping the machine that makes the product.
Intelligence
What is about to happen, what to do about it, and what it did on its own.
Cost
What each order was quoted at, what it actually cost, and where the difference went.
Reporting
The catalog over everything above.