Manufacturing Jobs & Work Orders

Two closely related screens:

• Manufacturing Jobs (Production → Jobs) — the master list of production jobs.
• Work Orders (Production → Work Orders) — every operation of every job, in one place.

Manufacturing Jobs

Create a job

From Sales Order (recommended):

1. Click From Sales Order.
2. Pick the order — only sales orders with a linked BOM appear.
3. The job (JOB-2026-0001) is created with the product, quantity, BOM and customer carried over for full traceability.

New Job (manual): pick a product, quantity and dates. Note that a manual job has no sales order — it can never be dispatched or invoiced from dispatch, so use "From Sales Order" whenever the job is for a customer.

When a job is created, ZAPTIZ automatically:

• Seeds five standard work orders — Fabrication (4h), Assembly (6h), Wiring (8h), Testing (3h), Quality Check (2h) — per-unit hours × quantity.
• Reserves the BOM materials in stock (never more than what's available), so other jobs can't double-book them.

Issue materials

On a Planned / Material Issued job with a BOM, click Issue:

1. Choose the warehouse to issue from.
2. Review the list — each BOM line × job quantity.
3. Click Issue Materials — stock is reduced, the reservation is consumed, and the job moves to Material Issued.

Other actions on the list

• Status dropdown — inline on every row; you can jump to any of the 11 statuses (the Kanban board offers guided forward-only moves instead).
• Print — a Job Card (always available) and a Material Issue note (once materials are issued), both with print/email via your templates.
• Filter chips for every status, plus a List / Kanban tab toggle.

Work Orders

The Work Orders page groups operations by job, with a progress bar and "x/y done" per job.

Action	When shown	What it does
Start	Operation is Pending	Sets it In Progress — and if the job was still Planned/Material Issued, the job starts too.
Complete	Operation is In Progress	Marks it done.
Log hrs	Always	Records actual hours (with an optional "mark as completed" tickbox).

Log hrs overwrites

The number you type in Log hrs replaces the operation's actual hours. If you want to accumulate time across sessions, use the Shop Floor timers instead — they add elapsed time.

Tips

• The default filter is Active only — jobs that have passed QC disappear from this page until you switch to All jobs.
• Estimated hours are per-unit standards × job quantity, so they scale with big orders.
• Starting any operation is what starts the job clock (actual start is stamped).