Manufacturing Inventory Software
When you make what you sell, stock is three things at once: the parts on the shelf, the parts already promised to a job, and the finished goods that do not exist yet. A spreadsheet holds one of those, which is why the answer to “can we build fifty?” is usually someone walking to the stockroom. In Qoblex a production order takes its recipe from the bill of material, reserves the components, and turns them into finished stock when the job is done, carrying the labour, the overhead and the wastage into what those goods cost.
What you can build, what it used, what it cost
A production order answers all three, because it is the same record the stock moves through. Nothing has to be reconciled afterwards, which is the part that usually never happens.
One recipe, not five versions of it
A bill of material lists the parts that go into a finished product, with the quantity of each. It can be edited at any time and it is what every production order reads, so a change reaches the next job instead of the next person who remembers.
Know you can build it before you start
The order shows what each component needs and what is actually available, and warns you before production starts if something is short. You find out at the desk rather than halfway through the run.
Parts leave stock when they are used
Draft, in production, completed. Components are reserved when the job starts and consumed when it finishes, and the finished units appear in stock at the same moment. Nobody adjusts two products by hand to represent one build.
What the job really cost to make
The finished product is costed from what it consumed, plus the labour and overhead you record on the order. That is the number your margin reports read, rather than a standard cost somebody set last year.
Leftovers go back, wastage is counted
Record what was wasted and what came back unused, and the two are treated differently: unconsumed stock returns to the shelf, wastage stays in the cost of what you made. Yield is what you actually got, not what the recipe said.
Trace a bad part into the finished goods
When a job consumes batch-tracked materials or produces batch-tracked stock, Qoblex asks which numbers. That link is what turns a supplier problem into a list of finished units rather than an afternoon with delivery notes.
Break a finished product back into parts
A disassembly order runs the recipe backwards: the finished unit leaves stock and its components return. It is how a made-up set gets broken out when the parts are worth more separately, without inventing an adjustment.
Raise a month of production from a file
Upload the jobs as a CSV rather than building each one by hand, and Qoblex reports the rows it could not accept instead of importing half of them. Bulk actions then start, complete or cancel a whole selection.
Production cost reaches your books
Labour and overhead recorded on a manufacturing order post to the ledger account you choose in Xero or QuickBooks Online, with rules to send particular jobs somewhere else. Nobody writes a month-end journal to account for what the workshop did.
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Frequently asked questions
Bills of materials, production orders, costs and batch tracking.
What does manufacturing in Qoblex actually do?
It turns a bill of material into finished stock. You create a production order for a quantity of a finished product, Qoblex works out the components it needs from the recipe, reserves them, and when you complete the order it consumes the components and puts the finished units into stock at a cost built from what they used.
Does Qoblex handle multi-level bills of materials?
A bill of material is a finished product built from other variants, and a part can itself be a product you make. Where a sub-assembly is a real item you hold, build it with its own production order and use it as a component in the next one. Qoblex does not plan a multi-level build as a single job.
Is this shop floor software?
No, and it is worth being clear about it. Qoblex does not schedule work centres, assign tasks to operators, or track time on the floor. It records what a production order consumed, produced and cost. If your constraint is scheduling people and machines, you want a dedicated manufacturing execution system, not this.
How is the finished product costed?
From what it actually consumed: each component at its own cost, plus any labour or overhead you record on the order, adjusted for wastage and for anything that came back unused. That figure becomes the cost of the finished units, so margin on the thing you sell reflects the job that made it.
Can I track batches through production?
Yes. If the materials are batch or serial tracked, the order asks which batches were consumed, and if the finished product is tracked it asks which numbers were produced. Both directions appear on the batch trace, so a raw material problem can be followed into the finished goods it went into.
What happens if I do not have enough components?
Qoblex tells you before production starts, listing what is short. You can buy the parts in, adjust the quantity, or start anyway if you know stock is arriving. It does not silently take a product negative and leave you to notice later.
Does Qoblex work for made-to-order as well as made-to-stock?
Yes. Build to stock and keep finished goods on the shelf, or raise a production order against a customer order that has just come in. Both use the same bill of material and the same costing.
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