Production flow

An order of production can come either from a manual encoding, or automatically created by Tiny ERP following a need on a product. For reminder, this product has to be configured in storable product which is made inside. It must at least exist an available nomenclature for this product.

If the request comes from a need, then Tiny ERP seeks a nomenclature which corresponds to the hoped product to determine how it will be done. If several nomenclatures exist, the properties make it possible to make a selection among those. If the properties don't give a satisfactory result, Tiny ERP takes the nomenclature having the smallest sequence. The production orders generated are in draft mode and don't have at this step any influence.

Then it's necessary that a user confirms or cancels this order. If the order is confirmed, thus Tiny ERP will make a request for supply for each necessary goods to the production. With the launching of the needs calculation, then these requests are done and can generate themselves other orders of production (streams), of the purchases, the deliveries or subcontracting. The needs calculation is done in infinite capacity.

For more information on this process, defer to the supply chapter. If the raw materials are available (supply satisfied), the picking list to fill the production is automatically validated to avoid an additional step which would weigh down the process. Thus the raw materials are automatically moved with the wished location for the production.

The production order goes then in the 'ready to produce' state. The workerscan obtain the production list on standby and have to start with the first one because those are sorted by importance/urgency. When the user begins the production, he clicks on the 'Start Production' button. Now the raw materials are consumed and the accounting entries for those are generated.

Lastly, when the production is finished, the user clicks on 'Finished Production' and the finished product is generated and added to stock. The analytical charges according to the ranges definition and charging stations are charged at this step.

We will see in the following chapters that the production module of Tiny ERP is very flexible and bears: multilevel nomenclatures and ranges, cascade productions, phantom and substitution nomenclatures, as well as the configured products.