Playbook: manufacturing, bakery or kitchen

What you get

The Manufacturing ERP profile adds Production: recipes, production runs and true cost per unit, all on the same stock ledger as your sales and purchases.

Step-by-step setup

1. Administration → Your business → How should the ERP work? Manufacturing.
2. Catalog → Items: your ingredients or parts (bought items) and your finished products (made items). Set costs on ingredients.
3. ERP → Vendors and Purchasing so ingredients come in at their real cost.
4. ERP → Production → Recipes: what it makes, one batch makes N, ingredients per batch, labor and overhead per batch. Example: "Sourdough loaf" — one batch makes 24 from 10 kg flour, 200 g salt, 6 kg water, $35 labor.
5. Items with a shelf life: turn on expiry in Inventory → Expiring soon so lots carry dates.

Running production

1. Production → Plan a run: recipe, number of batches, due date.
2. The run shows what is needed vs on hand — buy or transfer the shortages first.
3. Mark as made with how many actually came out.

Ingredients leave stock at their average cost; finished goods come in at the full cost (ingredients + labor + overhead), so margins in your reports are real.

Selling what you make

Sell finished goods at your own register, to business customers through Wholesale, or online through the web shop.

Related guides

Manufacturing · Inventory · Purchasing · Accounting