The build card

Opening a manufacturing order shows the Build card — everything about that production run in one place, one row per item you’re making. Manufacturing orders are an Elevate plan feature.

On this page

• The three page tabs
• The card header
• Warnings
• Items to build
• The toolbar
• The documents table
• The Materials tab and claims
• Header actions

The three page tabs

Tab	What’s on it
Plan & Progress	An Overview card with the headline numbers, then the Build card itself.
Notes & Activity Log	Internal Notes you can save, plus an Activity feed of every status change and action. You can leave comments there for your team, and edit or delete your own.
Attachments	Files, generated documents and the manufacturer email history — see Documents, exports & manufacturer email.

Everything on the Build card is worked out from the documents linked to it each time you load the page. Nothing is stored, so receiving, reverting or cancelling a linked document shows up here immediately.

The card header

The header names the build — Internal or Subcontracted, Manual or Assemblified engine, and the location or manufacturer it runs at — with the expected completion date underneath. If no date is set, it says so: a build without one doesn’t appear on the forecast timeline.

Below that, three badges say where the build stands:

Phase	Badges
Materials	No materials required · Unallocated · Partially allocated · Allocated · Materials arrived
Building	Not started · In progress · Built
Distribution	Not started · In transit · Partially distributed · Distributed

Then a one-line roll-up: how many units are buildable now, how many are built against the target, and — once anything has been made — how many have been received back into a location out of what was built.

Note

A unit counts as distributed only once it has been received. Units on their way are counted separately as in transit and never folded into the distributed figure.

Warnings

A warnings strip sits above the items table whenever something is worth a second look. It’s always one summary line — how many materials aren’t fully arrived, how many other warnings there are, and which items can’t be built yet — with a Show details toggle.

Expanded, material shortfalls become a small table: the material, how much has Arrived, how much is Needed, and how many of each item’s remaining units that pile covers if it’s used on them first. Other warnings read as one line each, for example:

• an item built past its target (not an error — the numbers simply stop treating the target as a ceiling),
• a material or item claimed on more documents than it needs,
• work orders planning more units than the target,
• an item with no bill of materials being built by hand inside an engine build,
• an expected completion date that has passed.

Nothing here blocks anything, and the same warnings put a marker on the item rows they’re about, so the strip and the table never disagree.

Items to build

One row per item, with:

Column	What it shows
Item	Product name and SKU, plus a Manual badge when the item has no bill of materials, and a warning marker when the row has one.
Target	How many units this item is meant to produce.
Materials	A badge: None needed, Needs allocation, Arriving, Ready, or Built — the number in brackets is how many units the arrived materials can make.
Building	Built against target with a progress bar, how many are buildable now, and a chip per work order on engine builds.
Distribution	How many finished units have been received, and how many are still in transit.
Documents	Chips for the documents feeding this item — select one to jump to its row in the documents table below.

Expand a row to see that item’s own materials and how much of each it still needs. Each row also has its own menu, grouped Materials / Building / Distribution, that runs the toolbar actions below scoped to just that item.

The toolbar

The actions sit on the tab row above the table and act on the whole build; the same actions appear on each item’s row menu scoped to that item. They’re available while the run is live — once an order is Completed or Cancelled the card becomes read-only.

Link document attaches a document that already exists — either an Allocation document (a purchase order, transfer order or supplier stock release bringing materials in) or a Distribution document (a transfer order or supplier stock release moving finished units out). Search by number and pick it.

Allocate materials turns a shortfall straight into a new, already-linked document. The Source is the only real choice; the kind of document follows from it and from how the build is set up:

Source	What it creates
Order from a supplier	A purchase order — delivered to your production location, or straight to the manufacturer on a subcontracted build.
Release supplier-held stock	A supplier stock release out of a supplier’s shelf. Internal builds only.
Transfer from a location	A transfer order out of a location you pick.

Quantities open pre-filled with what’s still missing, rounded up to the supplier’s minimum order quantity and pack size where they apply — the same rounding you’d see creating a purchase order from the forecast. The rounding is advice, not a lock: lower a quantity and you get a Below MOQ or Not a pack multiple flag rather than a refusal.

Build opens a menu whose contents depend on how the build runs:

• Record production — enter how many units were made. On an internal build this prepares a stock adjustment that draws the materials and adds the finished units; because inventory is tracked in whole units, fractional material draws are rounded to the nearest whole number and the dialog tells you when that happened. On a subcontracted build it draws and credits against the manufacturer’s stock instead — see Subcontracting a build. Select all fills every line with exactly what’s left to reach its target.
• Add work order — internal engine builds only. Creates a work order in Assemblified for the items that have a bill of materials, or links one that already exists; its progress then flows back to the build automatically. A build can carry several.
• Track a work order — subcontracted builds only. Links the manufacturer’s work order so you can see its status, for reference only.

Distribute finished goods sends built units onward. It’s called Send finished goods on an internal build (a transfer order out of the production location) and Release finished goods on a subcontracted one (a supplier stock release out of the manufacturer’s stock). Pick a destination location; quantities pre-fill with what’s been built but not yet sent, so running it again after a partial send suggests exactly the remainder.

Refresh requirements appears on engine builds and re-reads the bills of materials in case they changed — only while the order is still a Draft.

Note

Which build action an item offers depends on how it’s made. An item with a bill of materials on an internal engine build is driven by a work order; everything else — manual builds, items with no bill of materials, and all subcontracted production — is entered by hand with Record production.

The documents table

Under the items table, every document linked to the build is listed with its number, type, Phase (allocation, execution or distribution), status, the items it carries and what it contributes. Selecting a document chip on an item row highlights its row here.

Cancelled or deleted documents stop contributing numbers but stay listed, so the paper trail is never lost.

The Materials tab and claims

The Materials tab lists every material the build needs, with Needed, Allocated and Arrived quantities plus a stock column — Available at your production location on an internal build, or At manufacturer on a subcontracted one — alongside SKU and barcode.

Under the table, each material has a collapsible Documents panel showing the documents bringing it in: how much is On document, how much is Allocated and Arrived, and a Claimed figure you can edit.

A claim is how you say what share of a shared document belongs to this build. Order 500 metres of webbing on one purchase order for three runs, and the claim is where you record that 200 of them are this build’s. Leave it blank — it reads Auto — and Logistified works the split out for you. A claim larger than the document carries is flagged rather than blocked.

On a subcontracted build the tab also keeps a history of everything recorded at the manufacturer, with a Reverse action per entry.

Header actions

At most two actions sit directly in the header; the rest are in the Actions menu, grouped Change status, Export & tools, then the destructive ones.

Action	What it does
Edit details	Change the name, dates and notes. The build’s mode, location or manufacturer, and material source can only change while the order is a Draft.
Start production / Mark as Completed / Cancel / Reopen	The status transitions. Completion is never automatic — when everything is built and received, the page suggests it and you confirm.
Send to manufacturer / Resend	Email the production document to a subcontractor.
Quick PDF export and Export…	The production PDF and CSV/XLSX exports.
Print labels	Finished-goods labels, with a preset that sets each item’s label count to its target.
Revert to Draft	Undo a mistaken send, while nothing has been produced yet.
Delete	Remove the order and its attachments. Linked purchase orders, transfers and adjustments are left untouched.

The email, PDF, export and label actions are covered in detail on Documents, exports & manufacturer email.

See also

• Manufacturing orders overview — creating one, and the list page.
• Subcontracting a build — recording production and getting finished goods back from a manufacturer.
• Purchase orders → Receiving and Transfer orders → Shipping and receiving — what happens on the documents a build links to.

Last updated: 14 September 2026