Run one order through the factory
Release a real order to the factory
Why this step
The configuration is done; now use it. Take a confirmed sales order and launch manufacturing from it, and watch the openings become manufacturing orders on the layout you just built.
What this does
Turns a confirmed order into work the factory can start: manufacturing orders for the fabricated units, with the components each one consumes.
Before you start
- The order must be confirmed, and every fabricated line analysed.
- The survey should be done if the job is site-measured — building to pre-survey sizes is how a job gets built twice.
Steps
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Open the confirmed sales order.
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Check the fabricated lines: quantities, designs, and that each analysis is current.
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Release the work to production.
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Open the Manufacturing app and find the new orders.
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Confirm each one and check component availability.
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Schedule against the delivery date the customer was given.
What each order carries
- The design it was created from, so the shop floor can see the drawing.
- The components the analysis produced — profile lengths, glass, hardware.
- A link back to the sales order, so anyone can answer "whose window is this?".
Warning
Changing a design after production is released does not change the order on the shop floor. Material may already be cut. Treat it as a revision: stop the work, correct it deliberately, and re-issue.
Common mistakes
- Releasing before the site survey, and cutting to the architect's sizes rather than the measured ones.
- Releasing a job whose components are not in stock and not on order, so it stalls half-built.
- Confirming production for the whole contract when only phase one is due.
Checkpoint
A manufacturing order exists for a real opening, on the right work centre, from a sales order nobody re-keyed.