Manufacturing orders
The documents that authorise and track the production of finished goods from raw materials in an ERP.
Manufacturing orders — called production orders in Business Central and Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management — authorise and track the production of finished goods from raw materials. A typical production order references a production BOM (the components needed), a routing (the operations performed and on which work centres), and a quantity. As work progresses, consumption journals record material usage and output journals record finished quantities, scrap, and operation time. Cost flows into work-in-process and lands on the finished item when the order is fully finished. Production orders transition through statuses: planned → firm planned → released → finished.