The recipe lives on the item
An assembly is an item like any other — it is sold, shipped, counted and transferred — except that it is built, not bought. Its recipe is written on its own form: each component with its quantity per unit and a scrap allowance, the standard labor for one, and the sales price.
As you add a component or change the labor, the material cost, standard cost, margin and markup recalculate on the spot. Type a margin and the price follows; try a cheaper component and see what it does to the cost before anything is saved. Sub-assemblies roll up into the assemblies that use them.
Builds that pull the right parts
Build at a location and the components come off that location's shelves at their real cost while the finished units go on, priced with the material, the run's labor and any overhead. The ledger moves the value within inventory, with labor and overhead held in a clearing account until payroll posts.
A component that is not stocked — labels, a consumable you do not count — is costed into the build and never counted off. Void a build and everything goes back exactly as it was used.
A build queue that waits for what is short
A build that cannot be made right now is never refused: it becomes a build order that holds the components it needs and says what it is waiting for. Sales orders and build orders are served in the order they were entered, so a build never takes the parts an older order was promised.
A sales order short of an assembly queues the build for exactly what it lacks, and an assembly at its reorder point queues one by itself. One click raises draft purchase orders for what a build is short of; when the receipt lands, the build is ready — and can complete by itself if you choose.
Every unit traceable
An assembly tracked by serial number gets a unit for each one built, stamped with its build and its cost; one tracked by lot gets its lot and expiry. The serial-numbered and lot-numbered components that went into it are recorded as they are consumed.
So when a supplier recalls a part, the unit's trail shows every finished unit it went into.
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