Manufacturing
Turn raw materials into finished goods, with the stock and cost to prove it.
What it is
Manufacturing lets a business define exactly what it takes to build a finished item - which raw materials, how much of each, plus labor and overhead - and then run real production orders against that recipe. Posting a production order consumes the raw materials from stock and adds the finished quantity to stock in the same step, so 'we built 50 units' is never just a claim, it's a real, auditable stock movement.
How it works
Define the recipe
Build a Bill of Materials for a finished item: which raw materials it needs, how much of each per unit, and a flat other-expenses figure for labor and overhead. The server prices it from raw materials' live cost, not a typed-in guess.
Build a production order
Pick a recipe, set how many units to produce, and choose which store the raw materials leave from and which store the finished goods land in - they don't have to be the same place.
Post to move real stock
Posting consumes every raw-material line from the source store and adds the produced quantity of the finished item to the destination store, with each line's cost tracked for accurate valuation.
Catch negative stock in bulk
A dedicated screen finds every manufactured item that's gone negative on hand - sold or moved faster than it was ever produced - and lets staff manufacture a whole batch of them back to zero at once.
The problem it solves
Without a system tying production to stock, finished goods get sold or promised that were never actually assembled from real materials, and a manufactured item's cost is whatever someone typed in once and forgot to update. Platinum's Manufacturing domain forces every unit produced to actually consume its ingredients from stock, and keeps the finished item's cost grounded in what raw materials cost today, not what they cost when the recipe was first written.
Connects to
A production order is really an Inventory adjustment pair under the hood: posting it consumes each raw-material line's quantity from the source branch/store and adds the produced quantity of the finished item to the destination branch/store, using the exact same Adjustment In/Out documents Inventory uses for its own stock corrections. Saving a Bill of Materials also writes its computed cost and price straight onto the finished item's own barcode record, so Inventory, POS, and invoicing all see the same up-to-date numbers immediately.
Production posting is a pure stock movement, not a financial one: the Adjustment In/Out pair a manufacturing order creates has its valuation and VAT deliberately hardcoded to zero, so turning raw materials into a finished good does not post a GL voucher. Cost is still tracked line by line for accurate item costing - it just isn't booked as a journal entry the way an Inventory write-off or branch transfer is.