Manufacturing & Work Orders: Key Features

This video shows how to create a manufacturing order and walks through each part, including materials, work orders, quality checks, and costing.

A manufacturing order (MO) is a production job in Sutton. It tells your team what you're making, how much, where, and with which materials. Use MOs to plan production and track each job from start to finish.

Each MO generates work orders (WOs), one for every step in the item's routing. MOs can also link to sales orders, purchase orders, and other MOs, so you can trace every job back to the demand behind it.

To open the table, go to Production and click Manufacturing orders. The table lists every MO in your organization, so it's the best place to see what's planned, what's running, and what's done.

Each row gives you a quick snapshot of the job.

Across the top of the page, you'll also find these tabs:

Creating an MO takes four steps: select the item, set up the job in the modal or skip it, fill in the details panel, and save.

The New manufacturing order modal opens next. Use it when you want to set up the job and its sub-assemblies in one place.

In the modal, you'll fill in the Location, Job type, BOM version, Target quantity, and

Packing type. Turn on Make sub-assemblies to create MOs for the sub-assemblies in the item's BOM at the same time. Then click Save.

To set up each detail yourself in the details panel instead, click Skip.

You're now on the new MO page. In the middle, the Overview previews the materials the job will need, pulled from the item's BOM. On the right, the Details panel holds the rest of the MO settings.

When everything looks right, click Save at the top of the details panel. Sutton creates the MO and its work orders, and opens the new MO.

Once you save, Sutton opens your new MO. The header at the top shows the key facts about the job:

The Settings tab in the details panel holds the defaults for all manufacturing orders. Here you can change the MO number prefix and set how Sutton handles picking alerts, output reservations for linked sales orders, lot numbers, and backflush inventory.

The Overview tab holds two tables: Materials and Work orders.

The Materials table lists everything on the BOM needed to complete the job. Use the Not picked and Picked filters to see what's left and what's done.

Each row in the table shows:

From this table, you can:

The Work orders table has two tabs:

The Quality tab lists every quality check logged on this MO, with its checkpoint and whether it passed or failed.

To add a new check, click Log quality check.

The Costing tab shows what the job costs as it runs. It has three sections.

The cost summary breaks the job's cost into materials, labor, external cost, and total, shown in your organization's currency. It updates as materials are picked and labor is logged, and it flags any cost overrun.

The Material cost table shows the cost of every material picked for the job. You can also pick materials from here. Use View picked items to switch between what's been picked and what's left to pick.

The Labor cost table shows the labor logged on this MO by routing step. To log time, click + Add labor.

You now know how to create a manufacturing order and where to find everything inside it. With materials, work orders, quality checks, and costs in one place, you can track each job from planning to completion and catch issues before they slow production.