Manufacturing orders

A manufacturing order (MO) plans and tracks a production run: build a target quantity of one or more items, either in-house or through a subcontractor, using materials that come from your own stock or a supplier’s. It ties together the purchase orders, transfers, stock releases and stock adjustments that actually move the materials and the finished goods, and shows you progress across all of them from one page.

What a manufacturing order is — and isn’t

It’s a plan and a dashboard: target quantities, the materials each unit needs, and how much has actually been built or received, all computed live from the documents linked to it.
It’s not a separate inventory movement. A manufacturing order never adjusts stock on its own — every quantity change happens through a linked purchase order, transfer order, supplier stock release, or stock adjustment. Cancelling or deleting a manufacturing order never touches those documents; it only removes the connections between them.
It’s not a costed document. Manufacturing orders don’t carry prices, and the production PDF you send to a manufacturer never shows one, regardless of your other document settings.

Statuses

Status	Meaning
Draft	The plan is being set up — items, quantities, materials — before any production has started.
In Progress	Production is underway: materials have been staged, work has been recorded, or the order was sent to a manufacturer.
Completed	The run finished.
Cancelled	The run was called off. A cancelled order is archived — it drops out of your active lists but its history stays intact.

Builds: in-house vs. subcontract

Each item on a manufacturing order belongs to a build — the actual production run for that item. A build is either:

Internal — you make it yourself, at one of your own locations, using your own team.
Subcontract — a manufacturer makes it for you. You choose which supplier is doing the work, and can send them a production order by email.

Materials for a build can come from stock already on hand, or be staged first through a purchase order, a transfer, or a supplier stock release — Logistified shows what’s needed, what’s available, and what’s still missing as you work.

Creating a manufacturing order

Go to Supply Orders → Manufacturing Orders and select Create Manufacturing Order. The dialog asks up to three questions, and everything else follows from the answers:

Choice	Options	What it decides
Where	Internal or Subcontracted	Internal asks for a Production location; subcontracted asks for a Manufacturer.
Execution	Manual or Assemblified engine	Manual means you type the materials in yourself and record production by hand. The engine reads each product’s bill of materials from Assemblified.
Materials	Already at the manufacturer or From my stock	Subcontracted builds only — where the materials the manufacturer will use come from.

All four combinations of Where and Execution are allowed: a subcontracted build can use the engine’s bills of materials too. Assemblified engine is offered only when the shop has a connected Assemblified account — without one the option is greyed out with a note, and Manual works the same way except that you enter the materials yourself. Switching Where back and forth keeps whatever you already chose for Execution and Materials.

On a subcontracted build, the Materials answer describes the usual route for that build: Already at the manufacturer means they’re on the manufacturer’s shelf, or arrive there on a purchase order delivered straight to them; From my stock means you ship them out of one of your own locations. See Subcontracting a build for what each one creates.

You can also give the order an optional Name (leave it blank and it shows by number), an Expected completion date — strongly recommended, since it’s what places these units on the forecast timeline — and Notes.

Items and materials

Add one row per product with Add product, and set the Target quantity you want built. Expand a row to see that product’s materials, shown both Per unit and as a Total against the target — change the target and the total rescales.

On an Assemblified engine build, materials are filled in from the product’s bill of materials and marked from BOM; their per-unit quantities are read-only, and a refresh control re-reads them.
On a Manual build — or for a product the engine has no bill of materials for — you add the materials yourself and type how much of each one unit needs.

A build can mix the two: a product with no bill of materials inside an otherwise engine-driven build is labelled Manual and is built and recorded by hand.

You can also start an order from the Forecast page: select rows, then Actions → Create Manufacturing Order, and the dialog opens with each target already filled in from the row’s suggested reorder quantity. Those rows also show MOQ and Pack columns; a target below the primary supplier’s minimum order quantity or off its pack size is flagged Below MOQ or Not a pack multiple, with a Round all up button that fixes every flagged row at once.

The list page

The manufacturing orders list shows one row per order:

Column	What it shows
Manufacturing Order	The order number, its optional name, and how many builds it has.
Status	Draft, In Progress, Completed or Cancelled — with an Overdue badge beside it when an in-progress order’s expected completion date has passed.
Target	Total units planned across the order.
Built	Total units produced so far.
Buildable now	How many more units the materials on hand could actually make.
Progress	Three short badges — materials, building and distribution — summarising how far along the run is.
Created	When the order was created.
Created by	Who created it.

Search by manufacturing order number, and filter by Status, Execution, Production location, Created by, and a Date range on when the order was created or last updated. Any combination of filters and search term can be saved as a named preset that everyone in the shop can reuse — the same way the transfer order list works.

Each row has a checkbox. Select orders individually (selections carry across pages), the whole page, or everything matching your filters, then use Export above the table for a CSV or XLSX — see Bulk-exporting from the list page.

What you can do here

The build card Allocate materials, record production, distribute finished goods, and read the badges on every item.

Subcontracting a build Get materials to a manufacturer, record what they built, and bring the finished goods back.

Documents, exports & manufacturer email Generate a production PDF, attach files, email a subcontractor, export CSV/XLSX, and print finished-goods labels.

Settings Export templates and the manufacturer email template — where they live and what they control.

Day to day, from the manufacturing order list and detail pages you can also:

Edit details — the name and notes stay editable while a run is in progress; the build’s mode, location/manufacturer, and material source can only be changed while it’s still a Draft.
Record production as it happens, and see a live rollup of what’s built, what materials are still needed, and whether anything is overdue against its expected completion date. Select all in the record-production dialog fills every line with exactly what’s left to reach its target.
Leave comments on the order’s activity log for your team, alongside the automatic history of every status change and action.
Delete or cancel an order — deleting removes its attachments and activity log along with it; the linked purchase orders, transfers and adjustments are left untouched either way.

Key concepts

Manufacturing order — the plan for a production run.
Build — one item’s production run within the order: internal or subcontract, with its own location or manufacturer.
Target — the quantity a build is meant to produce.
Built — the quantity actually produced so far, computed from the linked documents and recorded production.
Overdue — a badge shown on an in-progress build whose expected completion date has passed. It’s informational only — nothing else changes automatically.

Where to next

The build card — what the detail page shows and every action on it.
Subcontracting a build — working with a manufacturer end to end.
Documents, exports & manufacturer email — the production PDF, attachments, sending to a subcontractor, and CSV/XLSX exports.
Settings — export and email templates.
Purchase orders, Transfer orders and Supplier stock releases — the documents a manufacturing order links to for staging materials and receiving finished goods.

Last updated: 14 September 2026