Delivery datesMore reliable
- Before
- Promised without material in view
- With Milestone
- Planned from material and capacity
Operations · Manufacturing
Plan, Make and Cost Every Order
Bills of materials, production plans, work orders and quality records work from one database, so the factory and management see the same WIP, yield and cost.
1Operational impact
What It Costs Today
- Plant headSchedules that never reach stores
Unreliable delivery dates often begin with plans that never reached purchasing, stores and production in one consistent form.
- Production managerWIP nobody can see
A total output number hides the bottlenecks inside the chain of issues, operations and receipts.
- CFOA rejection is a cost signal
Material loss is accepted as normal because its pattern is hard to see across receipts and processes.
2Milestone capability
What Milestone Does
Each capability works on the same database as the rest of Milestone, so nothing is copied between systems.
- Multi-level BOM and routingWhat the factory intends to build, defined once and used everywhere.
- Production planning from ordersPlans built from open orders and delivery dates.
- Material requirementRequirement from the BOM, net of stock and open orders.
- Work orders and WIP by stageOperation-wise status, with material issued against consumed.
- Quality, rejection and reworkRejections recorded with their reason, quantity and cost.
- Alternate materials and product costAlternate inputs compared by yield; cost from actual material, scrap, machine expense and overhead.
Everything listed here is available today unless it carries a status tag.
3Process transformation
Manufacturing Lifecycle, from BOM to Actual Cost
Select a step to see its document, who acts and the control applied.
Engineering
Planning
Stores
Shop floor
Quality
Costing
Information moves onControl pointRework and actual cost feed backSteps in the same column run in parallel
01 · BOM and routing
- Document
- Bill of materials and routing
- Who acts
- Engineering
- Control
- One definition used by planning, stores and costing
- 1EngineeringBOM and routingOne definition used by planning, stores and costing
- 2PlanningProduction planBuilt from orders and delivery dates
- 3PlanningMaterial requirementNet of stock and open purchase orders
- 4StoresMaterial issueIssued quantity checked against the BOM
- 5Shop floorOperations and WIPWIP visible by stage
- 6QualityQuality checkRejections recorded with reason and cost↺ Rework returns to operations
- 7StoresFinished goodsOutput compared with plan and input
- 8CostingActual cost and yieldMaterial, scrap, machine expense and overhead↺ Actual cost and yield update the next estimate
Read the steps as text
- BOM and routing (Engineering). Bill of materials and routing; One definition used by planning, stores and costing.
- Production plan (Planning). Production plan; Built from orders and delivery dates.
- Material requirement (Planning). Material requirement; Net of stock and open purchase orders.
- Material issue (Stores). Issue against the work order; Issued quantity checked against the BOM.
- Operations and WIP (Shop floor). Work order by operation; WIP visible by stage.
- Quality check (Quality). Inspection record; Rejections recorded with reason and cost.
- Finished goods (Stores). Production receipt; Output compared with plan and input.
- Actual cost and yield (Costing). Product cost sheet; Material, scrap, machine expense and overhead.
4Management visibility
What Management Sees
- Which work orders are behind plan?Work orders against planned dates
- Where is WIP sitting, by stage?Quantity and value at each operation
- Where are rejection and rework rising?Rejections by product, stage and reason
- What did this product actually cost?Actual against standard, order by order
123Layout sketch · live screen shown in your demo
- 1Operations and status by stage
- 2Material issued versus consumed
- 3Rejection and rework recorded
5Business outcome
What Changes
Directions, not percentages. Your baseline is measured during the study, and improvement is measured against it.
Material lossVisible
- Before
- Accepted as normal
- With Milestone
- Recorded by stage and reason
Product costActual
- Before
- Estimated once, never checked
- With Milestone
- Measured from real inputs
See It Running on Your Own Process
Bring one live process. We will walk through it with your documents and show it running end to end in Milestone.