operations
Live stock across warehouses, bins and the shop floor, valued at landed cost. Orders reserve it, work orders consume it, and the ledger moves with every scan.
order → reserve → make → pick → ship
THE PROBLEM
Stock lives in one system, the shop floor in another, and the true value of what is on the shelf is worked out at year end. A sale is promised before anyone checks a location. Work orders consume parts that were never issued. Landed cost is an estimate, and margin is wrong until the accountant corrects it.
HOW SOLONOMOUS DOES IT
Inventory & Manufacturing keeps one quantity and one value per item, per location, updated by every receipt, issue, move and count. Sales orders reserve stock where it sits; shortages raise purchase or work orders. Bills of materials drive consumption, and every step posts to the ledger at the cost it actually carried. Scanners confirm the physical movement so the record and the shelf agree.
WHAT YOU GET
Every unit is where the system says it is, valued at what it cost to get there. Margin on every order is known when it ships, not when the books close.
Capabilities
9 capabilities
Define an item once with its variants, units of measure and conversion factors. Choose whether it is tracked by quantity, batch or serial, and the system carries that identity through every receipt, move, consumption and shipment.
Stock is held per warehouse, per bin, and per vehicle or consignment location, with one live quantity for each. Transfers move stock through an in-transit state, so nothing is in two places or nowhere. Reservations hold stock for the orders that need it without moving it.
Replenishment rules watch cover per item and location and draft purchase orders before stock runs out. A purchase order goes to the vendor, the receipt confirms what arrived, and the vendor bill is matched to both in Finance. The Replenish agent drafts; a person approves.
A bill of materials lists what an item is made from and a routing lists the operations that make it. A work order takes both, reserves the components, and shows the shop floor which operation is next. Consumption posts as each step completes, or is backflushed when the order closes.
Freight, duty and handling are allocated to the goods they brought in, by value, weight or quantity, so the unit cost on the shelf is what it cost to get there. Open work orders carry their consumed materials and labour as work in progress on the ledger until the finished goods are received. Valuation runs FIFO or weighted average per entity.
Define the checks an item needs on receipt, during production or before it ships. A failed check puts the batch or serial on hold, which blocks picking and consumption until it is released or written off. Every result is kept against the item's history.
Every receipt, move, pick, count and consumption can be confirmed by scan, from a phone camera or a handheld scanner. The scan updates the record at the moment the stock moves, so the shelf and the system agree. Labels print from the same item and batch data.
Schedule full or cycle counts per location and count with a scanner while the warehouse keeps operating. Variances are shown before they post, and an adjustment above the threshold you set needs a second approval. Every adjustment is a journal with a reason.
A confirmed sales order reserves stock and raises a pick, alone or in a wave with others. Picking, packing and the carrier label happen on the scanner. When the shipment leaves, stock is issued, cost of goods sold is posted, and the invoice is raised in Finance.
Capabilities
9 capabilities, one card each. Open any card to read it in full.
Workflow
Five events, one record. The quantity on the shelf changes only when a scan says it did.
A signed quote in CRM confirms the order. Stock is reserved at the location that can ship it, and anything short raises a purchase order or a work order.
The work order reserves components from the bill of materials and the shop floor works through the routing. Consumption posts per operation and the finished goods are received into stock.
The pick is released to a scanner, alone or in a wave. Each scan confirms the item, batch or serial and the bin it came from.
Any pre-shipment quality check runs before the carton is closed. Packing and the carrier label are done on the same device.
The shipment leaves and stock is issued at its landed cost. Cost of goods sold posts to the ledger and the invoice is raised in Finance without re-entry.
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Questions
No. Items, locations, procurement, counts and fulfilment work without a bill of materials in sight. Manufacturing is switched on per entity when you need it, and nothing changes for the warehouse when you do.
FIFO or weighted average, chosen per entity. Landed cost is included in the unit cost under either method. Changing method is a ledger event with a posted revaluation, not a setting that rewrites history.
An item is marked as batch or serial tracked and every movement from then on names the batch or serial. You can trace a serial forward to the customer who received it, or a batch backward to the vendor receipt and the work orders that consumed it. Holds and recalls act on that trace.
Any browser on a phone with a camera, or a handheld scanner that behaves as a keyboard. Labels print to any printer the browser can reach, using the item, batch and bin data on the record. No dedicated terminal is required.
By default a movement that would take a location negative is blocked and the reason is shown. You can allow it per location for cases like a receipt that is physically on the floor before the paperwork arrives. Negative balances are listed until they are resolved.
Open work orders hold their consumed materials and labour as work in progress on the ledger, so the balance is already there when you close. There is no manual WIP journal to compute. Finishing the order moves the cost to finished goods, and shipping it moves the cost to cost of goods sold.
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