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Light manufacturing
A business that makes goods from materials in batches, such as soap, furniture parts or packaging. Kila runs it as production with Kila's standard rules.
A light manufacturer turns materials into finished goods in batches: soap and detergents, plastics, furniture parts, printed packaging. Kila runs it as a production business with no extra rules.
What is special
Link to this section: What is specialNothing is added to the production screens. Each product has a recipe or parts list with its batch, good output, labour and overheads (Set up a recipe or parts list); each run is a production order that reserves and issues the materials and puts a costed batch into stock (Plan a production order). The lines and machines, their maintenance and the shift log are in the Make menu as for every production business.
No demo business runs as light manufacturing; Shamba Fresh Foods shows the same production screens.
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 | Light manufacturing |
|---|---|
| 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.