Manufacturing enables companies that produce their own products on production lines and get external companies to do some production. 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.
The Low Stock Dashboard highlights priority when planning, then manipulate batch sizes and ingredients (by looking for equivalent items) and scale to use full bags of ingredients. When ready mark the job as planned. The job start will float in the dashboard as other jobs are completed early or late so the expected start/end times update as work progresses. Production jobs are Picked for Manufacturing with materials checked prior to production starting. Detailed production QA Tests are grouped into QA Test Groups to Produce an Order, Produce Labels and Cleans. Once production is completed enter quantity completed, returns, waste and time in the room then the production cost will be calculated. If you Produce Labels or print bags or other JIT items prior to production a linked job for the relevant production centre scales as you adjust the quantities during planning.