Sheet-metal, machining and welded-assembly shops make to order against a customer OA. Fast Production Software gives each job its own order-specific BOM and route sheet, prints job cards to the floor, issues material against the work order, and tracks WIP good vs reject from raw material through to finished goods.
Each order lives in an Excel sheet and a printed traveller that walks the floor. When the traveller is lost or out of date, nobody can say what stage the job is at or how much is left to make.
A make-to-order part has its own drawing, its own cut list and its own process, but there is no order-specific BOM. Material planning is guesswork and the actual consumption is never checked against a bill.
The store hands out material with a slip on a hook. Nothing is reserved for a job, so two orders draw on the same stock, and by month-end the physical count and the ledger no longer agree.
Half-finished parts sit between machines with no record of how many are good, how many were rejected, or which operation caused it. Rework happens off the books and reject reasons are never analysed.
Fast Production Software models the way a job shop actually runs a make-to-order job — order, material, route, WIP, finished goods and the rejection loop, with every movement posted to the shared stock ledger.
Fast Production Software carries a make-to-order job through the full shop-floor cycle — the traceability a serious job shop needs, without the spreadsheets and paper travellers.
A make-to-order job is only controllable if the system knows exactly what to make and against which order. Fast Production Software raises each job as a work order — a Sales Work Order against the customer OA or an internal WO — and attaches its order-specific BOM and route sheet, so the drawing, cut list and process for that job are all in one place. See work orders & job cards and BOM & Bill of Resources in detail.
Material moves in two controlled steps so a job never quietly overdraws stock. First it is reserved against the work order to earmark it; then it is issued — the real stock deduction charged to the job. The production requisition explodes the order BOM to drive the issue, a wrong issue can be reversed, and unused material returns to store. See material issue & WIP in detail.
A fabricated part passes through laser or shear, bending, welding, machining and paint — each at its own work center. Fast Production Software drives the job through its route/process sheet with operation standard times, process specifications and an in-process inspection branch, so every operation is defined, timed and checked. Read more about process & route sheets.
WIP that sits invisibly between machines is where job shops lose money. Fast Production Software books good and reject quantity at each operation as material moves through the route, with production slips carrying WIP from one operation to the next. Good, reject and scrap are all captured against the work center, so reject reasons can finally be analysed. Explore material issue & WIP.
When the route completes, finished goods transfer into stock — lot-tracked where it matters — and the work order closes. Line rejections open a self-contained rework route that salvages parts back to finished goods or into the main flow. FG, rejection & rework covers the loop; Dhruv AI then clusters reject remarks by work center and item and answers plain-English questions.
Each make-to-order job carries its own order-specific BOM against the OA — child items, quantity-per and scrap allowance — plus the Bill of Resources of machines and operations it consumes.
SWO against the customer OA or internal WO, generated from the plan, with printed job cards, WO specifications and live status from draft to closed.
Reserve then issue against the job (RES/WO → ISS/IWO), with good and reject WIP booked at every operation and process scrap tracked out of the route.
Operation sequence per work center with standard times, process specifications and an in-process inspection branch on each operation completion.
Finished-goods manufacture and transfer to stock (FGM/FGM, FGP/FG), lot-tracked where relevant, with line rejection and a full rework salvage loop.
Work-order follow-up, live job-card status and process rejection MIS; Dhruv AI clusters reject remarks by work center and answers production questions in plain English.
Yes. Alongside master BOMs, each make-to-order job holds an order-specific BOM against the customer OA — its own material lines, quantity-per and scrap — plus its own route/process sheet, released for production and rolled into an estimated job cost.
Operators book good WIP (WIP/OKPLUS) and reject (WIP/OKNOTOKMINUS) at each operation, plus any process scrap, so you can see how much of the job has passed each work center and where rejects came from.
Yes. Once a work order is released it prints job cards and shop packets — the operation sequence, work centers and specifications — and shows live job-card status so supervisors know each job's stage without walking the floor.
Material is reserved against the WO (RES/WO) to earmark it, then issued (ISS/IWO) as the real stock deduction. The requisition explodes the order BOM, a wrong issue can be reversed and unused material returned.
Yes. A make-to-order job opens as a Sales Work Order tied to the customer OA, or an internal WO from the plan, carrying its own BOM, route and specifications, and moving through a controlled draft-to-closed status.
Yes. Issues and FG transfers post to the same stock ledger Fast Inventory uses, and in-process checks and rejections flow into Fast Quality.
APQP/PPAP-governed parts with work-center routing, in-process inspection and line rejection and rework tracked per work order.
Learn moreMulti-level structural BOMs, sub-assembly manufacture and kit or component issue to the line, SFG feeding higher-level FG.
Learn moreMake-to-order and make-to-stock plants running work orders from a sales or production plan through to MIS-tracked finished goods.
Learn moreThe feature behind this page — work orders against the OA, job cards to the floor and live status in depth.
See the featureA 30-minute demo — we walk one of your own make-to-order jobs from order BOM to material issue to WIP and finished-goods transfer on screen. No slides, no generic walkthrough.
