Operations

Manufacturing

Production management — from BOM to finished goods with capacity planning and traceability

End-to-end production management with multi-level BOMs, production scheduling via Gantt chart, capacity planning heatmaps, quality inspections, and full batch/lot traceability. Supports make-to-order and make-to-stock strategies, subcontract manufacturing with vendor tracking, shop floor barcode scanning with OEE metrics, and real-time cost variance analysis across material, labor, and overhead.

Manufacturing is included free on Deelo — no credit card required. One platform with 50+ integrated business apps.

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Cut production costs 20% with real-time cost tracking and actual vs standard variance analysis

Catch quality escapes early with pass/fail checks, defect counts, and a live pass-rate trend

Trace any defect back to its source lot in seconds with full forward/backward traceability

Balance shop floor load with capacity planning heatmaps and auto-schedule suggestions

Everything You Need in Manufacturing

Powerful features designed to help you work smarter, not harder.

Production Work Orders

Full lifecycle tracking (draft/scheduled/in-progress/completed/cancelled) with priority, quantity, due dates, and work-center assignment.

Shop Floor Operator Interface

Simplified operator view with a work order queue, persistent punch in/out per operation, recorded barcode scan start/stop, and OEE metrics. One operator can only be clocked in once, and a work center refuses more concurrent jobs than its capacity allows.

Routing & Operations

Give a bill of materials its operations — work center, sequence, time per unit, setup and cleanup. Releasing a work order copies them onto it, and the shop floor works them in order: each step unlocks only when the one before it finishes.

Multi-Level & Kit BOMs

Nest bills of materials and see the whole structure as a tree, with a where-used lookup for any part. Mark a BOM as a kit and every work order using that product consumes its parts instead of the product itself; stocked sub-assemblies are still drawn from stock, so nothing is consumed twice. A BOM that contains itself is refused rather than half-built, and releasing a work order records the BOM revision it was planned against.

Partial Production & Backorders

Complete a work order for what you actually made. The remainder can be closed short or split into a new work order that keeps the same product, bill of materials, routing and dates — created exactly once, even if the completion is retried. A bill of materials can also declare a process loss, so units destroyed by the process are never added to stock while their material cost is carried by the units that survive; an overproduction allowance, so completing above plan is either permitted or refused outright rather than silently reduced; and a consumption policy that can warn about, or refuse, a completion that has drawn more material than the BOM requires.

Production Scheduling (Gantt)

Gantt chart for production orders with work-center allocation, drag-to-reschedule, and highlighting for urgent and high-priority orders.

Capacity Planning Heatmap

Daily utilization per work center with bottleneck detection, color-coded heatmap, and auto-schedule suggestions to balance load.

Material Allocation

BOM-based inventory allocation with stock availability checks, automatic deduction on consumption, and shortage alerts.

Quality Inspections

Quality checks against a product or work order with sample size, defect counts, parameter lists, pass/fail recording, and a pass-rate dashboard. Turn on mandatory QC and a work order cannot be completed until its most recent inspection has passed; turn on auto-generated reports and completing an order raises its final inspection for you.

Batch/Lot Traceability

Completing a work order records its finished lot automatically, listing every component the run consumed and every supplier lot recorded against it. A supplier lot traces forward to the finished lots it went into; a finished lot traces back to what it was made from. Plus recall management and certificates of analysis.

Cost Tracking & Variance

Material, labor and overhead cost per order — labor priced from recorded operator hours at each work center's hourly rate — with actual vs standard variance analysis and BOM cost roll-up.

Make-to-Order / Make-to-Stock

Per-product production strategy — MTO auto-creates work orders from sales orders, MTS triggers reorder points from inventory levels.

Subcontract Manufacturing

Vendor management for outsourced operations with material send/receive tracking and inbound quality inspection.

Equipment Registry & Maintenance

Machine and equipment registry with specs, location, status, preventive maintenance schedules, service history, and downtime tracking.

Rework & Scrap Tracking

Log rework requests with reason codes, track scrap quantities per batch, and report rework/scrap rates by product and reason code.

Standard Work Procedures

Attach step-by-step procedures and documents to operations with version history so operators always follow the latest instructions.

Production Analytics

Track cycle time per product, scrap trends, top failure reasons, and downtime causes to drive continuous improvement.

Capacity What-If Simulation

Model a scheduling change in a draft overlay to preview new bottlenecks, due-date fit, and material shortages before committing.

Bulk Work-Order Import

Create hundreds of production work orders at once from a BOM-validated CSV upload.

Why Deelo Manufacturing vs Alternatives

See how Deelo stacks up against the most popular manufacturing software on the market.

Feature	Deelo Manufacturing	Katana	MRPeasy	Fishbowl	NetSuite
Production Work Orders	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
Multi-Level & Kit BOMs	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
Production Scheduling	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
Quality Inspections	Included	Not included	Not included	Not included	Included
Batch Traceability	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
Cost Variance Analysis	Included	Included	Included	Not included	Included
Built-in Inventory	Included	Included	Included	Included	Included
50+ Integrated Apps	Included	Not included	Not included	Not included	Not included
Price	$19/seat/mo	$179-799/mo	$49-149/user/mo	$349/mo	$999+/mo

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Who Is Manufacturing For?

Built for teams of all sizes across industries.

Perfect for Small Shops

Kit BOMs that explode into their parts when an order completes, with a structure tree and where-used lookup
Shop floor interface with recorded barcode scan start/stop, operator time logs and OEE metrics
Real-time cost tracking with actual vs standard variance analysis

Perfect for Food Production

Full batch and lot traceability for recall management
A quality gate that refuses to complete an order until its inspection passes
Certificates of analysis linked to production batches

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Perfect for Contract Mfg

Make-to-order auto-creates work orders from sales orders
Subcontract manufacturing with vendor send/receive tracking
Equipment registry with preventive maintenance schedules

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Works Seamlessly With Your Other Apps

Manufacturing integrates with other Deelo apps so your data flows automatically.

Inventory

Inventory made simple

Accounting

Books that balance themselves

Planning

Intelligent shift scheduling with auto-scheduling, labor forecasting, and compliance built in

Simple, Transparent Pricing

Manufacturing is included in every Deelo plan. No hidden fees, no per-feature charges.

Free

For individuals getting started

Manufacturing included

Starter

$19/seat/mo

For small teams getting started

Manufacturing included

Business

$39/seat/mo

For growing teams that need more

Manufacturing included

Enterprise

$69/seat/mo

For organizations at scale

Manufacturing included

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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about Manufacturing.

Yes, Manufacturing is included free on all Deelo plans. There are no limits on the number of work orders, BOMs, or products you can manage.

Yes. Nest bills of materials, view the full structure as a tree, and look up where any part is used. A BOM can be marked as a kit, meaning it is never stocked — work orders that use it consume its components directly, while ordinary sub-assemblies are still drawn from stock so material is never consumed twice. Work orders record the BOM revision they were released against.

Deelo includes MRP/manufacturing plus 50+ other apps (inventory, accounting, invoicing, CRM) in one platform starting at $19/seat/month. Katana starts at $179/month and MRPeasy at $49/user/month for manufacturing alone.

Yes. Completing a work order records its finished lot for you — the quantity that reached stock, every component the run consumed, and every supplier lot your operators recorded against it. From there a supplier lot traces forward to the finished lots it went into, and a finished lot traces back to what it was made from, for recall management and compliance. You can still create and edit batches by hand; a batch you already opened for a work order is adopted by the completion rather than duplicated.

Yes. Record quality checks against a product or work order with an inspector, sample size, defect count, and parameter list, then set a pass or fail result that drives automation and a pass-rate dashboard. Full non-conformance reports and CAPA workflows live in the Quality app.

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