Manufacturing
Object: Production orderAll industries
The production order is where the operation becomes real.
Materials, people, machines, quality, time, documents, and cost all meet in the work that has to be completed.
Production orderThe production order is where it all meets
It carries a required output, a cost, a place on the floor, the people assigned to it and the documents that support it.
Planning and execution rarely live in the same record
The systems
ERP and MRP hold plans and transactions. Quality has its own records. Shop-floor reality, supplier issues, documents, and exceptions appear elsewhere.
The context
The order moves forward while its context fragments.
One production order, one record
The materials, the people, and the cost belong to the same order.
So the plan and what is actually happening on the floor can be read side by side.