How work moves through Workcell
Follow one customer order from a part definition through sale, build, ship, and invoice across every module.
Workcell's modules are not separate apps. They are stages in one flow. The same order passes through each, handing off as it goes. This page follows that flow start to finish so you can see where each module fits.
The flow
It is not strictly linear; purchasing, inventory, and quality run alongside production rather than after it. But a typical make-to-order job moves through these stages in roughly this order.
Stage by stage
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Engineering defines the product. Before you can sell or build something, it has to exist: an item, its bill of materials (the parts it is made from), and its routing (the steps to make it). Changes are controlled with change orders.
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Sales sells it. A customer request becomes a quote, the quote becomes an order, and releasing the order signals the rest of the plant that real demand exists. See Sales.
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Production plans and builds it. Planning reads released demand and the on-hand picture, then proposes the jobs to run and the materials to buy. A job breaks into work orders, and each work order into operations that run at a resource. The schedule sequences them; the live view tracks them as they run.
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Purchasing buys what is short. Where planning finds a material shortage, a requisition becomes a purchase order to a vendor. See Purchasing.
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Warehouse moves the physical goods. Purchased material is received and put away; finished demand is picked and shipped. The warehouse also runs transfers and cycle counts. See Warehouse.
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Inventory keeps the count honest. Every receipt, issue, and shipment posts a transaction, so stock, lots, and serials stay accurate by location, and a finished unit can be traced back to the materials that built it. See Inventory.
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Quality verifies it. Incoming material and finished work are inspected; failures raise an NCR, and recurring problems drive a corrective action. See Quality.
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Accounting costs and bills it. Every job accumulates its material, labor, and overhead into a job cost. What shipped is invoiced, payment is tracked in accounts receivable, and vendor bills flow through accounts payable. See Accounting.
Running underneath all of it: Workforce supplies the people and hours, Terminals are how the floor reports its work, and Analytics reports across every stage.
Where to go next
- Pick the module you work in most and read its overview.
- New to the sell side? Start with Sales.
- Setting up the product catalog? Start with Engineering.