Manufacturing enables companies that produce their own products on production lines and get external companies to do some production you can see the flow in Working in Manufacturing. Forecasting is based on sales, it can see manufacturing batches that are expected to be completed, purchase orders that are expected to be received and plans the raw ingredients required. The Article has the Bill of Materials (BOM), a link to the type of production room and the related QA tests to complete before, during and after production. The Plan/Review Order is where you create the planned batches. The Manufacturing Dashboard provides a view into all the planned jobs for each manufacturing room and makes it easy to change the order of jobs and the type of clean required between products. See Working in Manufacturing for the high level flow.
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