Production & Manufacturing

Production is more than a warehouse: it’s the stage on which material becomes a product. Tubach gives you the tools to run that stage in a planned way.

Bills of materials as a living blueprint

For each end product you define a multi-level bill of materials (BOM). Components can themselves be semi-finished goods, which in turn have their own BOM. Variants are mapped via BOM versions: the red variant uses the same BOM as the blue one, only with a different paint component mapping. Changes to a BOM are versioned: old production orders stay linked to the historical BOM, new orders use the current version. You keep traceability for repairs, complaints and audits.

Production orders with target/actual logic

From a customer order, a stock disposition or manually you create a production order. Tubach reserves the required components from stock, blocks them for other sales and moves the order through the statuses: planned to released to in progress to completed to invoiced. On completion, Tubach compares target material to actual consumption (over-consumption, scrap) and target time to actual time. Deviations flow automatically into post-costing: you see immediately whether the margin holds.

Semi-finished goods as a standalone stock level

Anyone producing in several steps knows the problem: a workpiece is no longer raw material, but not yet a finished product. Tubach treats semi-finished goods as their own articles with their own stock. You can produce semi-finished goods to stock (pre-production), hand them out to external manufacturers (contract work) or process them further in the next order. The transition between levels is transparent, no “material that disappeared between step 2 and 3”.

Resource planning: machines, people, rooms

Every production stage needs resources. Tubach knows machines, employees, workbenches and rooms as plannable units with capacities and availability. A utilisation heatmap shows at a glance when which machine is busy and where bottlenecks are emerging. Orders are distributed automatically to free slots, or you plan manually via drag-and-drop. Shift models, maintenance windows and holidays are respected: you don’t schedule into downtime.

Batch and best-before inheritance

If your components carry a batch (batch X from supplier Y), the finished product inherits this batch automatically. With several component batches a batch blend emerges with full traceability: in case of a recall you know immediately which end product is affected by which component batch. Best-before inheritance follows the shortest remaining shelf life: the end product inherits the earliest best-before of all components that went in. Mandatory for food, pharma and cosmetics, and Tubach handles it without Excel.

Costing and post-costing in one model

For each BOM you record a target costing from material (current purchase prices), labour (hourly rate by planned time) and overhead (markup per order). On order completion the post-costing runs automatically: actual material at day prices, actual time from the bookings, actual overhead pro rata. The difference shows you where your costing fits and where it drifts, per product, per batch, per order, per employee. The reporting turns “gut feeling” into a number you can show to your tax advisor or to a bank.

Reporting at the push of a button

Utilisation per machine, lead time per product, scrap rate per batch, margin per production order, open orders in progress, material consumption over time, all available as live reports. Bottlenecks become visible before they turn into delivery delays. Seasonal peaks can be derived from the data and built into next quarter’s capacity planning.