Get started with Manufacturing

Start Manufacturing, add your first bill of materials and make your first order.

Ellibo Manufacturing is for businesses that make things. You list what goes into each product, make orders from that list, and your stock and cost follow by themselves. It runs on the same items, stock, customers and books as your other Ellibo apps.

Start Manufacturing

Open Manufacturing from All Apps and choose your business, or create one. The business owner starts it and becomes its Admin. Every new business gets a 14-day trial with every feature, and no other app has to be started.

Set up production in three steps

Home shows these steps until you have made your first order:

1. Add a bill of materials - what goes into your product. You can add items while you do it. See Bills of materials.
2. Add your work centres - your machines or lines, with what an hour costs. This is optional. See Work centres and work orders.
3. Make your first manufacturing order - stock and cost follow by themselves. See Manufacturing orders.

Have your list in a spreadsheet? You can import items, work centres and BoMs. See Settings.

What Home shows

Open orders, what is waiting for components, what is past its deadline, blocked work, what was made in the last 7 days, and the next orders due. Click a number to see the list behind it.

Plans

Manufacturing is priced per office user. Admin, Planner, and Quality & maintenance count as office users. Operators and viewers are free. See Users and roles.

• Free - 2 office users and 30 orders a month, with bills of materials, kits, manufacturing orders and buying for production.
• Standard - adds work centres and work orders, multi-level BoMs, by-products, batches and serial numbers, scrap, unbuild, real cost and reports.
• Professional - adds the shop floor screen, planning, the master schedule, reorder rules, make to order, job work, quality and work-in-progress entries.
• Business - adds maintenance, repair orders, engineering changes, OEE and control charts, the API, custom roles and the audit log.

See Free trial and plans.

What it doesn't do

We'd rather tell you now:

• No offline use. The shop floor needs an internet connection, because stock and cost have to reach the server.
• No measuring devices or machine links. Measures are typed in by hand.
• Ellibo POS follows only with shared stock on. What you make always shows in Inventory and Accounting. It reaches POS once shared stock is on in POS, usually within about five minutes, and not for items with batches or serial numbers, kits or restaurant recipes.