A manufacturing order records something your store makes itself from a recipe, for example baking bread or batching a sauce. Running one takes the ingredients out of stock and puts the finished item in.
1. Open Manufacturing Orders
Open Stock Activity from the Home screen, then tap Manufacturing Orders under Manufacturing.
The tabs are Draft, Pending, Partially produced, Completed, and Canceled.
Partially produced holds runs where some of the batch is made but not all of it.
The chips above the tabs set the date range, starting on Last 14 days, and sort the list, for example Newest first.
2. Choose what to make
Tap Start manufacturing. The Manufacture recipe menu opens, listing the recipes available to your store grouped by category.
Tap a category chip along the top to jump to that group, or scroll the whole list.
Use the magnifying glass to find a recipe by name.
Tap the recipe you are making.
If a product is hidden in your store, its recipe is not listed here, so the menu only offers what you actually sell.
3. Read the recipe
A recipe opens on two tabs.
Ingredients: what the batch needs and how much.
Instructions: how to make it.
4. Set the batch size
On the Ingredients tab, use the Total batch to produce box. One batch is the recipe as written, and everything scales up from there in proportion. On the device that box reads Base recipe = 1 Batch escalates proportionally.
Tap a quick pick of 1, 2, 5, or 10, or type the number of batches you want.
The Yield line tells you what you will end up with, stated in the recipe's own unit, for example Iced Caffe Latte 5 ea.
Every ingredient quantity moves with the batch size as you change it, so the list always shows what this run needs.
Check the Yield line before you start, not just the batch number. Five batches of a recipe that yields 5 each is 25 finished items, which may be more than you can sell that day.
5. Start the run
Submit the order when you are ready to make the batch. Save it as a draft instead if you are setting up ahead of time.
If something the recipe needs is not stocked at this location, the order will not go through. A red message names the ingredient and tells you it is not stocked at this location, so you know what to order or request before you try again.
If an ingredient is short, sort that first with a Stock Request or a Purchase Order. Starting a run you cannot finish leaves the figures wrong.
6. Complete the run
Mark the order Completed when the batch is made.
Completing it takes the ingredients out of stock and adds the finished item.
If only part of the batch was made, the order sits under Partially produced.
To abandon a run, cancel the order. It moves to the Canceled tab and no stock moves.
7. Print a production sticker
Once an order is completed you can print a sticker for the batch, so the team can see what it is and how long it keeps.
Open the completed order and choose to print stickers.
Tap a quantity row to open the number pad, then enter how many stickers you need.
Print. Each sticker carries the manufacturing order number and the expiry date.
The order number on the sticker is what ties a batch on the shelf back to the run that made it. Keep the sticker on the container until it is used up.