Manufacturing reports

Where

Reports → Manufacturing Reports

Plan

Professional and above

Permission

Reporting → Manufacturing Report

All thirteen need the Professional plan. On a lower plan the group shows as a single locked row with an upgrade badge rather than disappearing.

They are not tied to the Manufacturing module

Unlike the Manufacturing menu itself, these reports are not switched off when the manufacturing module is off. A Professional business with no manufacturing will see all thirteen and get empty results from every one.

The thirteen

Report	One row is	Dates filter on
Work Order Summary	one work order	its planned start date
Work Order Cost	one costed work order	no date filter
Work Order Yield	one work order with a planned quantity	its dates
Production Output	one output record	its dates
Material Consumption	one consumption record	its dates
Scrap	one scrap record	its dates
Work Order Labour	one work order, hours totalled	the labour date
Work Centre Utilization	one work centre on one day	its dates
Machine Maintenance	one maintenance log	its dates
BOM Cost	one bill of materials	no date filter
Quality Summary	one quality check	its dates
WIP	one work order still in progress	no date filter
Production Plan	one plan line	the plan start date

Work Order Summary filters on the planned date, not the actual one

A job planned in January but run in March will not appear in a March range. Production Plan behaves the same way.

How to see what production cost you

1. Go to Reports → Manufacturing Reports → Work Order Cost.
2. Pick a Location if you want one site.
3. Click Run report.

You get material, labour and overhead cost, the total and the cost per unit.

A work order is missing from this report until somebody recomputes it

This report reads stored cost summaries, and a summary only exists once someone has used the Recompute cost action on that work order in the Work Orders screen.

Work orders nobody has recomputed are absent altogether — not shown with zero, simply not listed. A quiet month on this report may just mean nobody pressed the button.

Two reports that fill themselves in from nothing

Work Centre Utilization is typed in by hand

The planned, actual, idle and downtime hours behind this report are entered manually through a dialog on the Work Centers screen. Nothing derives them from your time logs, and there is no capacity or scheduling data anywhere in the app.

Efficiency and utilization percentages are then calculated from those hand-entered figures. Unless somebody is keeping that dialog up to date, this report is permanently empty.

Machine Maintenance is the same in kind: it lists maintenance logs somebody recorded. There is no maintenance schedule engine, so nothing generates a log on its own — though at least the report shows the next scheduled date from each log.

Work Order Labour needs labour to have been booked against the work order.

Reports that work straight away

Work Order Summary, Work Order Yield, WIP, Production Plan, Production Output, Material Consumption, Scrap, Quality Summary and BOM Cost all read your live production records and populate as soon as those documents exist.

Quality Summary only counts checks attached to a work order; a standalone check does not appear.

WIP lists work orders that are released, in progress or on hold.

No downloads

There is no Export button on any manufacturing report

Not CSV, not Excel, not PDF. Nothing on the screen says so — the button is simply absent, on all thirteen.

The only way to keep a manufacturing report is a screenshot, or to widen the columns and read it off the screen.

Related

• Work orders
• Quality
• Exporting a report