How to produce: order, issue and receipt from production

A production order says which product you will make, how much and by when. It goes through three statuses: Planned, Released and Closed (or Cancelled). Issues and receipts are always made from the order.

Create the order

1. Go to Production › Production orders and click New order. You can also start from the bill of materials with New order.
2. Choose the type:
   • Standard: copies the lines of the bill of materials and scales them to the planned quantity.
   • Special: you enter the lines by hand, for a product without a recipe or a different run.
   • Disassembly: the other way around; the product goes out and its components come back.
3. Choose the product, the planned quantity and the warehouse. Enter the order date, start date and due date. If the order is for a customer, enter the customer's sales order. Priority sorts the work: lower number, more urgent.
4. Review the components: you can change quantities, warehouses and issue method while the order is planned.
5. Click Save as planned or Save and release.

Why: as in SAP, the order copies the recipe when created. If you change the bill of materials later, orders already created don't change.

Release

On the planned order, click Release. Releasing:

• Fixes the order's unit cost (the standard cost the product will come in at).
• Reserves stock: components become committed and the product becomes ordered.
• Locks the lines.

Only a released order issues, receives and closes.

Issue the components

1. On the released order, click Issue.
2. Each component defaults to what is pending. Change Quantity to issue if you issue part of it.
3. In Batch, Nori suggests the first to expire. You can choose another batch; an expired one is flagged.
4. For resources, enter the hours.
5. Click Issue. The issue is a document with its own number, its stock exit at average cost and, with accounting on, its journal entry.

Components with Backflush issue are not issued here: they go out on their own when you receive.

Receive the finished product

1. On the order, click Receive.
2. Enter the good quantity and, if any, the Rejected quantity with its reason. Rejected goods don't go into the warehouse and their cost stays in the order.
3. If the product is batch-managed, Nori suggests the Batch number and works out the Expiry from the item's shelf life; if the item has no shelf life, enter it. If it uses serial numbers, enter one per piece.
4. If the recipe has by-products, enter what came out under by-products.
5. Click Receive.

Before saving the receipt, Nori backflushes the components that use it: what the recipe asks for the good plus the rejected quantity, never more than what is pending.

You can receive in parts: each receipt creates its batch. The order shows what was produced, rejected, the yield and the batches produced.

The order record

• Per component: planned, issued and pending, and the actual vs standard consumption.
• Work in process: what was issued minus what was received.
• Issues and receipts: each document with its number. In More actions you open the relationship map (order, issues, receipts and sales order) or print the order.

Cancel

• A Planned order is cancelled with Cancel order, and its reservations are released.
• A Released order can only be cancelled if it has no active issues or receipts. If it does, close it or cancel those issues and receipts first.
• An issue or receipt can be cancelled while the order is released. A receipt can't be cancelled if part of what came in has already gone out.

When you finish producing, close the order: see How to close a production order.

If you don't see…

• Issue or Receive: the order isn't released. Click Release.
• "The ERP keeps the stock": your connected ERP keeps inventory. Record issues, receipts and closings in the ERP; in Nori you plan with bills of materials, orders and MRP.
• A Standard order says there is no bill of materials: create the product's bill of materials or use a Special order.
• It won't let you issue more than you have: your company doesn't allow issues without stock. Record the component's receipt first.
• Permission: you need the Production, Supervisor or Administrator role.