Work orders, bills of materials, routing and quality checks, sized for a shop that builds real things without an ERP consultant on retainer. Material tracking consumes the specific component units, so cost and traceability come free.
We will let you know the day it goes live. If you want to start now, Inventory ships today, so your components, stock levels and reorder points are already in place when Manufacturing arrives.
What you get
Work orders
Material tracking that consumes specific component units from stock, so you know which lot went into which build.
Bills of materials
Multi-level bills of materials on composite products define what goes into a build, down through every sub-assembly.
Work centers and routing
Work centers with cost per hour and operations routing, so labor is part of the cost picture, not a guess.
Quality checks
Checks attached to work orders, recorded where the work happened.
Production schedule
Schedule, material availability and work-in-progress views show what can start and what is stuck waiting on parts.
WIP reporting
A WIP report keeps partially built value visible instead of vanishing between stock and sales.
The stock that is neither raw nor finished
A shop that builds things has a category of inventory that pure distributors never deal with: material that has been consumed but has not become a product yet. Six hours of labor and four hundred dollars of components are sitting on a bench in a state your stock report has no word for.
Most small shops handle this by pretending it does not exist. Components come out of stock when the build starts and the finished item appears when it is done, and the gap between is invisible. That works until the gap gets long enough to matter, and then two things go wrong at once. The value on the bench is missing from your numbers, and nobody can tell you what is actually buildable right now because the component counts are already wrong.
Work orders close that gap. Components are consumed against a specific build, the partially finished value stays visible as work in progress, and material availability is calculated against what is genuinely free rather than what the shelf appears to hold.
Because components are tracked as individual units, the lot and serial data travels into the finished item. A supplier tells you a batch of bearings was bad, and you can name the builds those bearings went into and the customers who received them. That is the same traceability chain Inventory maintains, extended across the assembly bench rather than stopping at it.
Kits and builds are different things
Inventory ships today with kits, and a kit is not a build. It is a bundle of products you sell, loan or rent together. Its parts stay ordinary stock until the kit goes out, and each kit shows how many complete sets your current stock can make.
Building ahead is what this module is for. When separate parts become a finished product that sits on the shelf as one item, whether that is a machine or a pre-built kit, it is a composite product with a bill of materials, built by a work order.
The dividing line is simple. If the parts are picked together when the order ships, kits already handle it today. If you put them together beforehand, you want work orders.
What this will not be
Knowledge ERP will do work orders, routings and BOMs well. It does not attempt enterprise finite scheduling, capacity planning or MRP-II, and we say so on the pricing page too.
If your planning needs are that deep, you likely need a bigger system. If they are not, you get to skip paying for one, and skip the implementation project that comes with it.
Materials have to come from somewhere, so most shops will run this alongside Inventory, and add Purchasing when component buying picks up.
$79 a month, plus seats
Flat module price on every tier, the same as the rest. See pricing for the full picture, or the modules page for what is available today.