A Production Assembly Order – refers to an order issued by a company to produce specific quantities of particular products at a particular time by assembling a bill of materials.
Make sure you create the Bill of Material to produce and all of its components before creating an assembly order.
Create an Assembly order
Follow the instructions below to create a new assembly order
- Login to your Qoblex Account
- On the main navigation menu, click on Manufacturing
- Click Create
A new production order will be created. Fill out the header information as outlined below
| Manufacturer | The supplier / manufacturer who is running the production job. Manufacturers are stored in the Suppliers page under Contacts. |
| Production Type | Assembly, or Disassemble. Make sure you set this field to Assembly for assembly production orders. |
| Order Number | Order number |
| Created At | Date when the production order was created |
| Finished Product | Name or SKU of the bill of material to produce |
| Location | Inventory location where the items will be produced from |
| Quantity | Quantity to produce |
| Yield Quantity | Final quantity to produce |
Bill of Material
The bill of material line items will automatically appear after you enter the finished product name.
The order items view has the following fields:
| Product name | The component product name |
| Quantity | Number of units to build into the finished product |
| Wastage | Number of units wasted while building the finished product |
| Unconsumed | Unconsumed units after the production process is over |
| Unit cost | Unit cost of the component |
| Total | Total cost of this line item |
Overhead and labor cost
Assembly overhead and labor costs enable you to enter associated external costs to your components when you are building the final product.
These costs could include:
- Services,
- processing, and packaging costs, etc.
- Anything that relates to the assembly or processing of an assembled product.
To add labor and overhead cost:
- Click on Add Labor / Overhead cost
- Enter the line item quantity
- Enter the cost per unit
Build instructions
Complex production processes sometimes require documentation. Use the Notes & Tags tab to ender instructions on how to disassemble the finished product
Related orders
The Related Orders functionality allows you to link other orders to the production order. This is very useful in back-order situations where creating a link between a sale order and a production order can easily help you navigate from one order to the other.
Start production
To start production:
- Set Production Type to Assembly
- Set the order Location
- Set the Quantity to produce
- Set the wastage stock
- Click on Start Production
The Start production operation will set the order status to InProduction. This operation will also allocate the required stock of the finished product to disassemble.
Make sure the bill of material parts have enough stock to start production
Complete production
To complete a production order:
- Set the order Yield Quantity
- Click on Complete
The Complete production operation will set the order status to Completed. This operation will:
- Free the allocations performed on the components earlier when the order was set to In Production
- Reduce the components stock on hand
- Increase the finished product stock on hand
- Update the finished product moving average cost value to account for extra labor cost if any
Cancel production
Cancellation of Assembly product orders is not supported at the moment.
