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General production
Any other business that makes things. Kila runs it as production with its standard screens and rules.
General production is for a business that makes things and fits none of the other kinds. It gets the production screens as they are, with no extra rules.
What is special
Link to this section: What is specialNothing is added or taken away: recipes or parts lists, production orders, the plant’s screens in the Make menu and the production home page. See Production for how they fit together.
How Kila sets it up
Link to this section: How Kila sets it upThe main screen is Production orders.
Rules it follows:
None. Kila's standard rules apply.
Its words:
| Most businesses | General production |
|---|---|
| branch | site |
Its set-up steps
Link to this section: 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
Link to this section: 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
Link to this section: 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
Link to this section: Where to go next- Production: everything a business that makes things needs.