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What do you make?

Find your trade below. Each one names where the work starts and ends, and the handful of things a general ERP gets wrong on that particular floor. If yours is not here, it is a conversation and not a problem — the list grows by one every time somebody asks.

24 trades

Manufacturing

Manufacturing & Supply Chain Planning · Forecast or sales order to finished goods

Plastics

Resin lot to despatched pallet

  • Regrind goes back into the batch
  • Cavities are the capacity, not machines
  • A mould is an asset measured in shots
  • Colour makes a second item from one tool

Chemicals & Specialty Products

Raw batch to certified drum

  • Concentration is not quantity
  • The by-product is inventory, not waste
  • A batch cannot ship without its certificate
  • Shelf life decides allocation

Dairy, Juice & Preserves

Raw intake to coded pallet

  • The intake is priced on what it contained
  • Yield is seasonal and has to be measured
  • Released, or not yet sold
  • The code on the pallet is the recall

Poultry — Farm to Portion

Day-old chick to packed portion

  • One input, many outputs, one moment
  • Three weights for one bird
  • The farm is already in the cost
  • Fresh and frozen are one line and two businesses

Furniture & Joinery

Cutting list to installed room

  • Made to measure is the normal case
  • Panel optimisation decides the waste
  • Finish multiplies the catalogue
  • Delivery is assembly

Metal Fabrication

Plate and section to erected steel

  • Bought by weight, used by shape
  • Offcut and skeleton both have value
  • A route, not a step
  • Everything in kilos

Ready-Mix Concrete

Mix design to poured slab

  • The product expires in ninety minutes
  • The mix design is the item
  • Trucks and pumps are the constraint
  • The cube test arrives a month later

Dry Food Packing

Bulk intake to retail pack

  • One bulk, many retail units
  • Cleaning loss is real and varies
  • Packaging is a bill of materials
  • Give-away is a measurable loss

Ceramics & Sanitary Ware

Body preparation to graded pallet

  • Shade, calibre and grade are stock dimensions
  • The kiln decides the output, not the order
  • The product is named after it is made
  • Metres, boxes and pallets at once

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

API lot to released batch

  • Nothing moves without release
  • The batch record is the product
  • Expiry drives allocation, not first-in-first-out
  • The registration constrains the formula

Paints & Coatings

Resin batch to tinted can

  • The last step happens in the shop
  • A colour is a formula, not an attribute
  • A touch-up from another batch shows on the wall
  • Solvents are regulated stock

Packaging — Carton & Flexible

Reel or board to delivered pack

  • Nesting decides the yield
  • The tool belongs to the customer
  • Make-ready is the real cost of a short run
  • Reels in, pieces out

Marble & Granite

Block to bundled slab

  • The yield is unknown until the block is cut
  • Vein-matched slabs stay together
  • Area, not quantity
  • Grade is decided after polishing

Feed Milling

Formula to delivered tonne

  • The recipe changes with the market
  • Ingredients are bought on analysis
  • Medicated feed leaves residue
  • Bulk and bagged from one bin

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