Manufacturing

The Manufacture Order is designed to be a module where Work Orders, or the Manufacturing of items, takes place. When items are manufactured (whether manufactured, repaired, disassembled, serviced, etc) a Work Order is created. This Work Order may be created by itself or through the demand of a Sales Order. The Work Order is placed on a Manufacture Order where it can be started, picked, and finished all from the few clicks of a button. The Manufacture Module also allows multiple finished goods to be associated with a Work Order, which is convenient for those customers who require multi-level manufacturing. Whether your business process involves simple and basic manufacturing, or more intensity such as multiple finished goods, stages, one time items, price adjustments and substitutions, etc Fishbowl has the features for all your Manufacturing needs.

Bill of Materials

The Fishbowl Inventory Bill of Materials (BOM) module is defined in the Manufacturing Module Group. Fishbowl has no limitations on the number of raw or finished goods that may be associated with a part, and manufacturing may take place as soon as bills of materials have been established with these raw and finished goods. In fact, Fishbowl’s Auto Create and Quick Build features provide the user with a fast and easy way to accomplish manufacturing. Upon manufacturing completion, the finished good is immediately placed either in Inventory or on a demanding order.

Configurable Items

Configurable products are ones that may change from order to order, depending on the customer. Fishbowl allows products to be configurable, meaning they are established with a variety of products a customer may choose from. For example, say you sell bikes. A customer wants your basic Mountain bike; however they wish to switch out both the tires and the brakes for ones a little more heavy-duty. When creating the Manufacture Order, a salesman would have the option to not only replace the tires and brakes, but also add an additional charge to the product for the upgraded items.

Work Orders (Manufacture, Repair, Disassemble)

Manufacture: Simply specify the part to be manufactured, enter the desired quantity and the required fulfillment date and Fishbowl will pull the required components out of inventory based on the previously defined Bill of Materials. The Manufacture Order module includes a variety of printable reports such as Projected Cost, Traveler, Consumption, and Work Order Report. Bill of Material items may include labor, overhead, and inventory or non-inventory.

Repair: Take a part that needs to be repaired, remove the damaged item(s), add labor and replace the item(s) with new ones from inventory. The costs for new parts/labor are added to the cost of the repaired item.

Disassemble: Designed for those companies that purchase used items in order to disassemble them into their component parts. Or, this may also be used for manufactured items that are being returned. Fishbowl’s disassemble function will take the used part and disassemble it into whichever components the user specifies.