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ERPNext for Manufacturers

ERPNext comes batteries included for all requirements of a manufacturing business like Bill of Materials tracking, Production Order planning and execution, procurement and lot more.

Bill of Material, Production Order and More

The Manufacturing module in ERPNext helps you to maintain multi-level Bill of Materials (BOMs) for your Items. It helps in product costing, production planning, creating work orders for your manufacturing shop floors and planning inventory by getting your material requirement via BOMs (also called Material Requirements Planning MRP).

You can also effectively track operations like:

• Production Orders against customer's Sales Order
• Material Planning
• Purchasing based on Material Planning an reorder level.
• Track actual material transfer against a Production Order
• Despatched manufactured items to the Customers.
• View reports

ERPNext Manufacturing Demo

Check the following video to educate yourself on each feature in the manufacturing module.

User Manual

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