Manufacturing & outsourcing

Connect demand, material, production, outsourcing and cost.

Milestone supports complex manufacturing environments where the business must coordinate BOMs, material planning, work orders, job routing, vendor processes, WIP, quality, machine maintenance and financial accounting.

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DemandSales order · forecast · production need
Signal
02
PlanMRP · BOM · material availability · schedule
Plan
03
Produce / OutsourceWork order · routing · job work · QC
Execute
04
Cost / DispatchWIP · product cost · FG · invoice · GL
Close
End-to-end manufacturing

The factory flow is only useful when it stays connected to sales, procurement and finance.

Milestone ties demand to material planning and execution, then carries the resulting inventory and cost movement forward into dispatch, accounting and management reporting.

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DemandSales order / forecast
02
MRPRequirement planning
03
BOM / RouteStructure and operations
04
Work OrderIssue / execution
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OutsourceVendor process / job work
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QC / ReceiptAccept / reject / rework
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WIP / CostMaterial and conversion
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FG / DispatchStock / invoice / finance
Manufacturing capabilities

Control both the factory floor and the extended vendor network.

BOM & routing

Multi-level product structure, work centres, routing logic and production-order linkage.

Material planning

MRP, requirements, issues, receipts, shortages and inventory integration.

Outsourcing

Send material or process to vendors, track status, receipt, rejection and cost implications.

Quality control

Quantity and quality validation with acceptance, rejection, rework and approval controls.

Product costing & WIP

Track raw material consumption, work-in-progress, wastage and finished-goods cost visibility.

Plant maintenance

Machine records, maintenance activity, downtime and supporting consumables/spares.

Intercompany flows

Support controlled movement between group companies/branches where commercial and production flows overlap.

Production analytics

Pending work orders, stage status, production register, WIP, wastage and consumption analysis.

Operational outputs

Make manufacturing status visible at every stage.

Management and production teams need more than a final stock number. Milestone can surface the intermediate states that explain what is happening and what is blocking output.

Pending work orders & stage-wise status

See what is open, where it is, and what action is pending.

Raw material vs finished-goods analysis

Review material consumption, production output and exceptions.

WIP, wastage and product cost

Keep the economic view connected to production execution.

Machine / manpower utilization views

Support capacity and operational review with relevant production data.

Factory visibility

Production is a chain of states.

Demand → PlanSales / forecast / MRP
Plan → ExecuteBOM / work order / material
Execute → ValidateOutsource / QC / receipt
Validate → AccountWIP / cost / FG / finance

Show us the manufacturing exception that standard software struggles with.

Multi-location demand, outsourced operations, unusual material flows, complex approvals or costing logic — these are exactly the conversations we are built to have.