Industries · Manufacturing
Promise Delivery From Capacity and Material, Not Guesswork
For manufacturers with multi-level products, several stages and job work: one system from customer order to finished goods, with the actual cost of every order.
What Gets in the Way
- Plant headPlans that never reach the floor
Schedules live in a spreadsheet that purchasing, stores and production each read differently.
- Purchase managerShortages found at issue
Material is found missing on the day it is needed, so buying turns urgent.
- CFOCost known only at year-end
Scrap, rework and job-work charges reach the product cost long after prices were set.
Manufacturing, from Customer Order to Collection
Steps in the same column run in parallel. Copper steps are control points. Select a step to see its document, who acts and the control.
01 · Customer order
- Document
- Sales order with delivery schedule
- Who acts
- Sales
- Control
- Credit status and stock checked before the date is promised
- 1SalesCustomer orderCredit status and stock checked before the date is promised
- 2PlanningProduction planCapacity and material looked at together
- 3PlanningMaterial requirementNet of stock in hand and open purchase orders
- 4Procurementin parallelPurchase and receiptReceived against an approved order only
- 5Storesin parallelIssue from stockIssued quantity tracked against the BOM
- 6ProductionOperations and WIPWIP visible by stage
- 7ProductionQuality checkRejections recorded with their reason and cost↺ Rework returns to operations
- 8LogisticsFinished goods and dispatchDispatch matched to the customer schedule
- 9FinanceInvoice and collectionUnbilled dispatches and overdue receivables surface for action↺ Actual cost informs the next quotation
Read the steps as text
- Customer order (Sales). Sales order with delivery schedule; Credit status and stock checked before the date is promised.
- Production plan (Planning). Plan from open orders; Capacity and material looked at together.
- Material requirement (Planning). Requirement from the bill of materials; Net of stock in hand and open purchase orders.
- Purchase and receipt (Procurement). Purchase order, goods receipt; Received against an approved order only.
- Issue from stock (Stores). Material issue against the work order; Issued quantity tracked against the BOM.
- Operations and WIP (Production). Work order, operation by operation; WIP visible by stage.
- Quality check (Production). Inspection record; Rejections recorded with their reason and cost.
- Finished goods and dispatch (Logistics). Delivery note and e-way bill; Dispatch matched to the customer schedule.
- Invoice and collection (Finance). Tax invoice, e-invoice, receipt; Unbilled dispatches and overdue receivables surface for action.
Three controls that matter most
Where Margin Is Won or Lost
- BOM and routing accuracyWhat the factory intends to build, defined once and used everywhere.
- WIP by stageWhere material sits between issue and finished goods.
- Yield, rejection and actual costThe product that earns the margin, and the one that loses it.
Modules involved
What You Would Use
Bring Us One Live Process
Pick the process that costs you most today. We will walk through it with your documents and show it running in Milestone.
Questions buyers ask
Some of our processes are done by job workers. Is that covered?
Yes. Outsourcing and job work follows material on a challan until it returns, is reconciled and is billed.
Can we see the actual cost of each order?
Yes. Actual material, scrap, machine expense and overhead are recorded against production.