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Production Overview
Production is the shared manufacturing capability in Pinkapple ERP. It is delivered through the Manufacturing service and exposed to users through the Production workspaces.
Production provides manufacturing context and runtime orchestration, but it should not be read as a second ledger for stock, inspections, payments, receivables, or generic documents. Those consequences still resolve through shared Inventory, Inspections, Billing, Payments, Reporting, and Document Transactions primitives.
Use it for product designs, BOMs, routings, production orders, shop-floor execution, quality handoff, dispatch, and production costing across apparel, food, plastics, roofing, automotive, assembly, and other manufacturing tenants.
Industry categories such as Apparel/Garments add terminology, templates, default items, inspection profiles, labels, report presets, and example workflows. They keep the same Production workspaces and records that users already know.
Manufacturing Service Model
| Concept | What It Means |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing Service | The tenant service that enables shared production, planning, quality, inventory, costing, reporting, and documents. |
| Production Workspaces | The sidebar pages where users perform manufacturing setup, planning, execution, quality, dispatch, and costing. |
| Industry Category | The manufacturing type that guides terminology, examples, templates, and setup choices. |
The practical rule is: Manufacturing is the service, Production is the runtime, and industry categories configure the runtime for the tenant's type of manufacturing.
Main Areas
| Area | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Setup | Configure product designs, BOMs, routings, production resources, labels, and quality setup. |
| Planning | Run MRP, review demand, identify shortages, create supply suggestions, and resolve planning exceptions. |
| Operations | Run quotations, sales orders, procurement, receipts, production orders, shop floor, quality control, dispatch, and owner-module handoffs. |
| Costing | Review material, labor, overhead, WIP, finished goods, scrap, variance, and payroll-reconciliation evidence. |
| Engineering Change | Control ECO/ECN revision impact across BOMs, routings, inspection gates, planned supply, open orders, and optional ETO Project/WBS scope. |
Workspace Reference
| Workspace | Open From | What Users Usually Do There |
|---|---|---|
| Product Design Categories | Production -> Setup -> Product Design Categories | Maintain the category taxonomy for production-ready designs and specifications. |
| Product Designs | Production -> Setup -> Product Designs | Maintain product designs, configurable option axes, valid variants, and stock-backed production SKUs. |
| Production Setup | Production -> Setup -> Production Setup | Maintain BOMs, routings, and production-ready item setup. |
| Resource Setup | Production -> Setup -> Resource Setup | Review production-scoped resource setup readiness over the shared Resource Capacity primitive. |
| Resource Types | Production -> Setup -> Resource Types | Define work centers, lines, machines, tools, labor pools, and service points through shared resource setup. |
| Resources | Production -> Setup -> Resources | Register the actual production resources used by routing and execution through shared resource records. |
| Quality Standards | Production -> Setup -> Quality Standards | Maintain inspection standards used by production quality checks through the shared inspection engine. |
| Quotations | Production -> Operations -> Quotations | Open shared document workflows for customer quotations in production context. |
| Sales Orders | Production -> Operations -> Sales Orders | Open shared document workflows for confirmed demand that can drive production planning. |
| Production Planning | Production -> Operations -> Production Planning | Run MRP, review shortages, convert suggestions, and open planning reports. |
| Procurement | Production -> Operations -> Procurement | Open replenishment or procurement flows for raw materials, components, packaging, or inputs. |
| Material Receipts | Production -> Operations -> Material Receipts | Record or review inbound receipts into stock through shared inventory/document behavior. |
| Production Orders | Production -> Operations -> Production Orders | Plan, release, execute, complete, and close production orders. |
| Resource Operations | Production -> Operations -> Resource Operations | Review production capacity operations readiness over the shared Resource Capacity primitive. |
| Capacity Slots | Production -> Operations -> Capacity Slots | Create availability windows and blocked periods for production resources. |
| Resource Bookings | Production -> Operations -> Resource Bookings | Reserve resources for production orders, operations, or shop-floor work. |
| Resource Utilization | Production -> Operations -> Resource Utilization | Review work-center, line, machine, and labor utilization. |
| Shop Floor | Production -> Operations -> Shop Floor | Track operation progress, execution units, scans, and output. |
| Quality Control | Production -> Operations -> Quality Control | Record inspection evidence and dispositions through shared inspection records. |
| Dispatch | Production -> Operations -> Dispatch | Open approved finished-goods release and dispatch flows with shared document/inventory consequences. |
| Production Costing | Production -> Costing -> Production Costing | Review production costs, absorption, and variances. |
| Cost Sheets | Production -> Costing -> Cost Sheets | Maintain document-based production cost assumptions. |
The General Dashboard production control tower uses these same workspaces for follow-up. Clickable rows from WIP, OEE, planning exceptions, QC/rework, dispatch readiness, and cost variance open the matching Production workspace or the formal Manufacturing report with the row context prefilled.
For a full operational walkthrough from customer demand through dispatch, invoice settlement, operator labour review, payroll payout, and reporting reconciliation, see Production Order To Dispatch, Billing, And Payroll.
Industry Categories
Apparel, agriculture processing, food processing, and other manufacturing types should use Production for shared runtime work. Their industry category should only add specific terminology, templates, defaults, report presets, dashboard presets, inspection plans, label formats, and examples.
For example, an apparel style, vehicle model/trim, roofing profile, furniture design, or plastics formulation should be treated as a Product Design unless it truly needs a separate industry-only extension. Configurable differences such as size, color, grade, length, finish, pack size, or trim should be declared as operation-item characteristics and then selected on variants, so BOM, routing, labels, price, and stock identity all share the same option vocabulary.
See Manufacturing Industry Categories And Examples for the category model, form-by-form guidance, and examples for apparel, food processing, plastics, metal fabrication, roofing, furniture, and assembly.
Report Ownership
Shared Production reports should stay in the generic Manufacturing/Production runtime when every manufacturing tenant can use them from the same underlying records. This includes planning, shortages, supply suggestions, planning exceptions, dispatch scheduling, costing variance, WIP/output reconciliation, genealogy, and other reports driven by shared product design, BOM, routing, order, stock, execution, resource, inspection, and costing data.
Engineering change reports also stay in shared Production. The Engineering Change Impact Analysis report reviews ECO/ECN targets against open production orders, planned production supply suggestions, BOMs, routings, routing operations, inspection templates, inspection plan gates, and optional engineer-to-order Project/WBS context before approval or activation.
Industry packs should add reports only when they depend on pack-specific dimensions or compliance logic. For example, Apparel can ship size-color matrix, marker utilization, bundle balance, or sewing-line efficiency views, while food-processing packs can ship recipe potency or shelf-life compliance views. If a report can be expressed through the shared Production records with only terminology or preset differences, keep it in shared Production and deliver the pack behavior through filters, labels, or saved presets instead of a separate runtime report family.