Make it, cost it, sell it from the same stock
Most manufacturers in the region run production on paper and sales on software. SaleSprint runs both, so a finished batch leaves the shop floor and lands in the inventory your counter sells from, carrying the cost it actually incurred.
What generic POS software gets wrong here
- ✕Sales software knows what a product sold for and purchasing software knows what the materials cost. Between them sits the conversion — labour, machine time, scrap and overhead — and if nothing records it, your gross margin is a guess dressed as a number.
- ✕A recipe that yields 400 loaves does not yield 400 loaves every day. Without recorded output against planned output, waste hides inside the flour usage and nobody can tell a bad shift from a bad recipe.
- ✕When work goes out to a subcontractor, the material is yours, it is no longer in your building, and it has to come back as something else. Systems with one warehouse and no work-in-progress concept simply lose it.
- ✕The shop floor promises a delivery date the sales counter has already promised to a customer, and neither can see the other because the work order and the sales order live in different books.
Built for the way you actually operate
Every one of these is a real screen in SaleSprint — not a request form or a “coming soon” tile.
Bills of Material & Recipes
Define what goes into a product, including sub-assemblies and by-products. Versioned BOMs mean a formula change is a new version, not an untraceable edit to history.
Work Orders End to End
Raise a work order, issue materials against it, record output and scrap, and receive the finished goods. Materials leave stock when they are issued, not when someone remembers.
Work Centres, Machines & Routing
Route a job through the stations it actually passes: mixing, moulding, curing, packing. Each operation carries its own time and cost, so a bottleneck is visible rather than folklore.
Quality Checks & Scrap
Attach a quality template to an operation or a finished batch. Failures are logged as scrap or rework with a reason, and the cost of that scrap stays attached to the run that caused it.
Subcontracting
Send material out to a third party, keep it on your books while it is away, and receive back the converted item with the subcontract charge rolled into its cost.
Landed Cost Per Run
Materials, labour, machine time, subcontract charges and overhead roll up into a cost per finished unit for that specific run — the number you need before you quote the next one.
How a day runs
Plan the run
Demand from sales orders or a stock target becomes a work order against a BOM version, with a check on whether the materials are actually on hand.
Issue and produce
Materials are issued to the order and the job moves through its work centres. Operators record output, downtime and scrap as they go, on a tablet at the station.
Check and receive
Quality checks pass, fail or send the batch to rework. Passed output is received into finished-goods stock with its lot and its costed value.
Sell and review
The counter, the distributor and the online store all sell from that same stock. At the end of the run you compare planned against actual on yield, cost and time.
Everything included
Typical fit
We found out one of our best-selling lines was losing money once scrap and gas were in the cost. We had been selling it harder every month.
Questions we get
How is this different from the Manufacturing feature page?
That page describes the module. This page is about the fit: if manufacturing is your business rather than a step in it, what matters is that production, stock, purchasing, sales and the ledger are one system. Read the module page for the screen-by-screen detail.
We are a bakery, not a factory. Is this too heavy?
No. Recipe production is one of the supported production types, and you can run it with a BOM, a work order and an output record — no routing, no machines, no quality templates. Turn those on the day you need them.
Can the shop floor use it without office computers?
Yes. The same app runs on Android and iOS tablets, and it works offline, so a station can record issues, output and scrap on a device that only syncs when it is back on the network. Permissions keep operators to their own screens.
What do we do with work in progress at month end?
Material issued to an open work order sits in a work-in-progress account rather than in finished stock or in cost of sales. When the order is received or closed, it clears. That means your stock valuation at month end reflects what is actually on the floor.
Can we move from spreadsheets without stopping production?
The usual path is to import products, materials and opening stock from Excel, build BOMs for your top lines first, and run those on work orders while everything else continues as it is. Nothing requires a big-bang cutover.
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