Supply Chain & Operations
Manufacturing
Manufacturing turns an item on the shared item master into a produced product: a phased bill of materials defines components, planned waste, and cost; a production plan books a facility, assigns an output lot number, and sets phase dates; a guided run then walks each phase from raw material to confirmed output. Every material check reads the same warehouse stock ledger the rest of the platform writes to.
Resolves intoThe production run
The operating model
Production in continON starts from the same item master used by purchasing, warehousing, and sales — a manufactured product is an article with a bill of materials attached, not a separate record in a separate system. Each BOM line names a component article with its required quantity, planned waste, and cost, and lines are grouped into ordered production phases tied to a facility.
A production plan states what to produce, how much, and where: it fixes the quantity, assigns the output lot number, books the facility for the plan window, and lays phase schedules onto start and end dates. Before work begins, the raw material list compares each component’s necessary quantity against what is actually available in the BOM’s warehouse — computed from the stock ledger net of active reservations — so shortfalls surface while there is still time to purchase.
The run itself is a guided sequence per phase: issue raw material, confirm the equipment in use, record waste against the planned figure with justification for the difference, attach documentation, and confirm the produced quantity against a selected warehouse. Phase statuses track progress, and a delay entered on one phase shifts the schedule of every phase after it.
What feeds it
- Bill of materials
- Raw stock
- Resources and machines
- Phases
Resolves into
The production run
Confirmed output, with waste recorded
Define the recipe
A phased bill of materials lists each component with required quantity, planned waste, and cost, tied to a facility and a warehouse.
Raise a plan
The plan fixes product, quantity, and output lot number, books the facility, and sets start and end dates per phase.
Check materials
The raw material list compares necessary quantity against available stock in the BOM’s warehouse, net of active reservations.
Assign resources
Employees, assets, and facility equipment are attached to each phase with their own schedule windows.
Run the phases
The guided run issues raw material, confirms equipment, records waste with justification, and attaches documents phase by phase.
Confirm output
A confirmation record captures the produced quantity, date, and receiving warehouse for the finished product.
Everything inside Manufacturing
6 capabilities
- Bill of Materials
How do you define what a product is made of — components, planned waste, and cost — before production starts? - Production Planning
How do you schedule a production run — quantity, dates, output lot, and facility — before work starts? - Material Availability
Does production planning check whether the required materials are actually in stock? - Resource Allocation
How are people, equipment, and facilities assigned to each production phase? - Production Runs
How does a production order actually run — phase by phase, from raw material to confirmed output? - Production Records
What records does a production run leave behind — documents, waste figures, and confirmations?
Connected through one operating model
Manufacturing does not stand alone.
Records cross module boundaries without being re-entered — these are the relationships continON actually maintains.
- Warehouse Management
Component availability and finished output are read from and recorded against the warehouse stock ledger. - Purchasing & Supply
Shortfall components are bought through the same request-to-order flow, against the same article records. - Task Management
Production work sits alongside the platform task system used across operations. - Asset Management
Facility equipment offered to a plan is read from the assets registered on that facility.
See Manufacturing on your own operations.
A guided walkthrough on a sanitized demo tenant — this module, the shared platform, and a connected workflow end to end.