Manufacturing connects bills of materials and routings to production orders and shop floor execution, so plant teams work from the same numbers Finance uses for costing — instead of reconciling two versions of the truth after the fact.
Key Capabilities
Everything Manufacturing covers out of the box.
BOM & Routing
Multi-level bills of materials and operation routings by product.
Production Orders
Order release, scheduling and material issue tracking.
Shop Floor Execution
Operator-facing tracking of operations, time and scrap.
Capacity Planning
Work center capacity against the production schedule.
Costing
Standard and actual production costing rolled up from BOM and labor.
Work-in-Progress
Real-time WIP visibility across active production orders.
Subcontracting
Outsourced operations tracked back into the production order.
See Manufacturing in Action
Product screenshots are being finalized as Manufacturing nears general availability — the frames below stand in for them.
Manufacturing — Production Schedule
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Manufacturing — Shop Floor Execution
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Manufacturing — BOM Editor
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AI in Manufacturing
Part of the Spark ERP AI Platform, applied to Manufacturing.
Schedule Optimization
Suggests production sequencing to reduce changeover time and meet due dates.
Yield & Scrap Insights
Surfaces operations and shifts with abnormal scrap or yield patterns.
Predictive Bottleneck Alerts
Flags work centers likely to become the schedule constraint before they do.
Workflows
A sales or forecast demand becomes a scheduled production order, executed on the shop floor and quality-checked before it posts as finished goods.
Example flow
- 1
Demand Triggered
From a sales order or the supply plan.
- 2
Production Order Released
Materials reserved, schedule assigned to a work center.
- 3
Shop Floor Execution
Operations logged, materials consumed, time tracked.
- 4
QC & Finished Goods
Quality check passed, stock posted to finished goods.
Integrations
Manufacturing connects to the systems this domain typically runs alongside — see the fullIntegration Platform for the complete picture.
- PLC / SCADA & shop-floor IoT
- CAD / PLM systems
- Barcode & label printers
- Quality lab systems (native)
Industry Applications
How Manufacturing is typically configured for a sector.
Country Support
Manufacturing runs on Spark ERP's Country Packs, so local tax, statutory and compliance rules apply automatically.
Security
Manufacturing inherits Spark ERP's platform-wide identity, tenant isolation, encryption and audit — the same security model every application runs on, not something rebuilt per module.
Customer Stories
Customer stories are being collected and will appear here.
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Pricing
Manufacturing is available standalone or as part of a bundled Spark ERP plan. See current plans and what's included.
Frequently Asked Questions
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