Work orders are where manufacturing happens. P4 Books lets you create work orders from BOMs, issue components to production, track progress, and receipt finished goods - all with complete traceability.
When work orders are paper-based or tracked in spreadsheets, you don't know what's in progress, what's consuming components, or what's actually being produced.
Proper work order management connects your BOM to your inventory to your financial records. Components are consumed with documentation. Production is tracked in real time. Costs are captured accurately.
From creation to completion with full traceability
Create work orders from BOMs instantly. Component lists pre-populated from product structure. Set quantity and date.
Issue components to work orders from inventory. Track what's been pulled. Handle shortages and substitutions.
Record production completions as they happen. Track partial completions. See progress against plan.
Receipt finished goods to inventory when production completes. Serial/lot assignment if applicable.
Record scrap and rework separately from good production. Track reasons for quality analysis.
Accumulate actual costs - materials, labor, overhead - against each work order for variance analysis.
Work order created from sales demand or forecast. Quantities and dates established.
Released to production floor. Components can now be issued. Work can begin.
Materials issued, production underway. Completions being recorded.
All quantities produced and receipted. Costs finalized. Work order closed.
Track lots through production
Print work instructions
Auto-consume on completion
Visual schedule view
Turn BOMs into finished goods with full visibility and traceability.