Assembly

A business that puts products together from parts, such as solar kits, bicycles or furniture. Kila runs it as production, with a parts list for each product.

An assembler builds finished products from parts it buys: solar kits, bicycles, furniture, electrical panels. Kila runs it as a production business with no extra rules: each product’s parts list is its recipe.

What is special

The parts list is set up like a recipe: what one batch takes, how many it makes and how many come out good (Set up a recipe or parts list). A production order reserves the parts, issues them by batch where they carry batch numbers, and puts the finished products into stock with their cost (Plan a production order).

No demo business runs as an assembler; Shamba Fresh Foods shows the same production screens.

How Kila sets it up

The main screen is Production orders.

Rules it follows:

None. Kila's standard rules apply.

Its words:

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Its set-up steps

Business details and KRA PIN
Sites and stores
Licences and permits (KEBS, county, DOSHS)
Materials, packaging and finished products
Lines and machines
Recipes or parts lists with yields
Quality checks for each product
Pre-start checks and logs
Suppliers
First production order

Its home page

Yesterday at the plant
Production orders today
Lines now: running and stopped
Intake today: received and rejected
Shift handover
Output against plan; yield and scrap
Batches waiting for QC release
Shift log today: output, scrap and downtime
Materials short for planned orders
Finished goods and days of cover
Cost per unit against standard
Machines: maintenance due and breakdowns
Checks and logs today
Orders to make and dispatch
Payments waiting for confirmation
Approvals and reviews waiting
Licences, permits and returns due

Roles it starts with

Production supervisor: Runs production orders at their site: plans, issues materials, records output, scrap and downtime on the shift log, completes checks and closes orders. No costs or recipes.
QA officer: Quality checks, holds and releases, recalls, the HACCP plan and its records, audits and issues, and tracing batches. No costs.
Operator: Works on the line: records output, scrap and downtime on the shift log, in-process checks and their checklists. No costs.
Plant manager: Runs production across the sites: plans and orders, recipes and their approval, costs and variances, machines and maintenance, quality and the shift log.
Storekeeper (materials): Receives, stores and counts materials and packaging, and issues them to production orders. No planning, output or costs.
Maintenance technician: Machines and their maintenance: plans, work orders, spares used and downtime. No stock or costs beyond spares.

Where to go next

Production: everything a business that makes things needs.