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Open the master BOM authoring screen, select the parent item, and add the child-material lines with quantity-per and any scrap or yield allowance. You can build it level by level, import a BOM from Excel, and attach the operations that make each level. Save it as a draft, then release it when it is ready for production. See BOM & Bill of Resources.

Use the work order entry screen: choose the item, enter the quantity and due date, and pick whether it is an internal work order or a sales work order against a customer order. The work order is born at Draft status with an auto-number, and once released it can requisition material and print job cards. See Work Orders & Job Cards.

Yes. Where Fast Planning is in use, work orders can be generated directly from the sales or production plan, so what the plan says to make becomes a live work order without re-keying. Planning and MRP also create the stock reservations production later issues against. See Fast Planning / MRP.

A Bill of Materials lists what a product is made of — the child items, quantity-per and scrap allowance for each level. A Bill of Resources lists what it takes to make it — the machines, labour, tools and operations each level consumes. The BOM drives material requisition and issue; the BOR drives the process route, work-center loading and resource costing. See BOM & Bill of Resources.

A structural BOM explodes a finished good down through its sub-assemblies to raw material — an indented tree of FG to SFG to RM. It lets you see the full make-up of a product at every level, cost it up, and run where-used checks to find every parent an item feeds. Assembly manufacturers rely on it to manage sub-assembly manufacture and kit issue. See assembly & sub-assembly manufacturing.

A BOM is not usable by production until it is released — it moves from draft to released status, and only then can work orders explode it to requisition material and drive the route. Releasing the BOM together with its process list makes the engineering definition official. Later changes go through an engineering change so revisions stay controlled and traceable. See BOM & Bill of Resources.

Reserving earmarks stock against a work order so it cannot be double-committed — but the material is still in stores and stock is not yet reduced. Issuing is the real stock deduction: material leaves store stock and is charged to the work order. It is a deliberate two-step discipline, and the key principle is that stock only truly moves at issue, not at reserve. See Material Issue & WIP.

A production material requisition is generated against the work order by exploding its released BOM. Reserved stock is then issued to the line through the issue/return slip — this is the point at which store stock is deducted and the material is charged to the work order. Consumption is tracked against BOM so you can see actual usage versus the standard. See Material Issue & WIP.

A wrong issue can be reversed, putting the stock back as if the issue had not happened. Unused material returns to stores through the same issue/return slip. Cancellations of a reserve or an issue post as cancelled reserve or cancelled issue documents, so the audit trail keeps a clean record of what was reserved, issued, returned and cancelled. See Material Issue & WIP.

A route or process sheet is the ordered sequence of operations a work order passes through, each on a work center, with standard times and any process specifications. You can hold a master process sheet per item and generate an order-specific sheet, print it for the floor, and record operation completion and status as work progresses. See Process & Route Sheets.

As material passes each operation, the operator books the good quantity and the reject or not-OK quantity separately, and process scrap where material is removed from the route. Production slips move work-in-progress from operation to operation. This gives a running yield picture per operation, so rejection is visible where it happens rather than only at the end. See Material Issue & WIP.

A work center is a machine or station where operations are performed. Each operation on a route carries a standard time, and those operation-time records feed process costing and capacity views. An in-process inspection branch lets an operation hand off to quality before the next step, and defects can be mapped to the work center that produced them. See Process & Route Sheets.

When the route is complete, the manufactured quantity is transferred to finished-goods stock — a manufacture event plus a transfer-to-stock posting — and the work order moves to completed or closed. This is the second true stock-commit point: finished goods land on-hand in inventory, ready for dispatch and finished-goods inspection. See FG, Rejection & Rework.

Yes. Finished goods can be transferred by lot, so each batch carries its own lot identity into inventory. That keeps traceability intact from the work order that made it through to dispatch — useful for automotive and other regulated parts. Over-production can be handled as an excess finished-goods transfer. See FG, Rejection & Rework.

Semi-finished goods — sub-assemblies — transfer to stock the same way finished goods do, so a completed sub-assembly becomes on-hand stock that feeds the next-level assembly's work order. That is how multi-level assembly runs: each level is manufactured, transferred and then issued into the level above. See assembly & sub-assembly manufacturing.

Line rejection records parts rejected on the production line, as distinct from incoming-material rejection. You can book rejection of the manufactured part, at child-part level, and against the specific work order. Rejected output can raise a purchase requisition for replacement material or feed the rework loop. See FG, Rejection & Rework.

Yes. Defects can be mapped to the work center that produced them, and process rejection analysis shows reject and scrap rates by operation. That turns a single end-of-line reject total into an actionable picture of where quality is really lost, so improvement effort goes to the biggest recurring cause first. Dhruv AI can cluster reject remarks into recurring themes on top of this. See Dhruv AI Analytics.

Rejected parts can feed a controlled rework sub-process: a rework process sheet defines the salvage operations for the rejected quantity, rework status tracks execution with its own good and reject, and salvaged parts either transfer to finished goods or return to the main work-order flow. Scrap that cannot be salvaged is written off. See FG, Rejection & Rework.

Fast Planning tells production what and how much to make. Work orders are generated from the sales, component and raw-material plan, and MRP reservation creates the stock earmarks production issues against — so plan, work order and material issue form one continuous chain instead of three disconnected steps. See Fast Planning / MRP.

Material issue and finished-goods transfer post to the same stock ledger the warehouse uses, so raw-material depletion and finished-goods receipt are immediately visible to Fast Inventory and dispatch. Process and finished-goods inspection branch into Fast Quality, and line rejections and rework decisions flow into the Quality module's non-conformance handling. See Fast Inventory & Quality.

Dhruv AI is our AI analytics layer. It adds a production role dashboard over live data with AI insight summaries, answers plain-English questions through a safe read-only query sandbox, and clusters rejection and defect remarks into named recurring themes by work center or item — so the biggest quality problems name themselves. See Dhruv AI Analytics.

Access is role-based: each user sees only the menus and screens their role allows — planners raise work orders, stores issue material, operators book WIP, supervisors handle rejection and rework, managers see the dashboards and MIS. Every user's activity is logged, so the record shows who did what and when.

Yes. Every work order, issue, WIP posting and finished-goods transfer is a document with a status history and audit trail, and every write is logged. Because material issue and FG transfer ride the shared stock ledger, you can trace which material and lot went into which work order and which lot of finished goods came out — the traceability regulated parts require.

Fast Production is rarely deployed alone — it is normally licensed with Fast Planning, Fast Inventory and Fast Quality to form the manufacturing core of a Fast ERP install. It consumes plans and stock upstream and feeds inspection and finished-goods stock downstream, all on one shared document and stock engine. See integrations.