💡 With a production order in Douano, you create a finished product, such as a beer, gin…, based on a recipe and a production process. Through this process, the required raw materials will be deducted from stock, and the finished product — the beverage — will be added to stock.
💡 You can only create a production order if a recipe for the beverage exists. Need to create a recipe? Follow this 👉 guide.
⇢ Go to Production - Production Orders and click on the green plus sign.
General Information
Company: by default, your own company will be filled in here. However, if you are creating a production order for another company, you can select that company here.
Reference: an optional reference from yourself or from the company for which you are producing. This reference is also shown in the overview of production orders, making it useful for quickly identifying a production order.
Lot/Batch number: will be automatically displayed here if you have filled in the lot/batch number template in the recipe. You can, of course, manually assign a lot/batch number.
💡 Want to add a lot/batch number template to a recipe? Follow this 👉 guide.
Planned Date and Time: the date and time when you scheduled the start of production.
Desired End Date: an optional date that can be taken into account for the planning of multiple production orders.
Pick Locations: stock location(s) where the ingredients will be picked. You can select multiple stock locations if the ingredients are stored in different places.
Production Stock Location: the stock location where the goods will be produced.
Storage Stock Location: the stock location where the produced goods will be stored.
⚠️ Both the production stock location and the storage stock location must be excise-suspended stock locations.
Recipe
Recipe: the recipe you want to produce.
Quantity: the amount, expressed in the unit of the product created with this recipe (pieces, liters, kilograms, ...).
Document notes
💡 In this section, you can add notes that should be shown on certain documents related to this production order.
Document type: the type of document on which the note should be displayed.
Note: the note that should appear on the selected document type.
Links with other transactions
💡 In this section, you can create links with other transactions such as other production orders, filling orders, repackaging, purchase orders, … In this way, you can, for example, indicate that a filling order is waiting on this production order. You can create multiple links.
Waiting on: the transaction(s) this production order is waiting for.
Requested by: the transaction(s) waiting on this production order.