Manufacturing requires Products and Inventory — recipes and stock are its raw materials — and cannot be switched on without them. Before the first work order can run, a company needs:
- Manufactured products with an active BOM (§6.9) — a work order is a recipe, executed; no recipe, no release.
- Component stock in a warehouse (Chapter 5) — production consumes the real shelf, at the real moving average.
- Two flagged accounts in the chart (Chapter 7): the work-in-progress account that holds value while it is on the floor, and the manufacturing variance account that receives each order's difference at close. An issue or a close that finds its account missing is refused, naming the gap (§10.10).
Manufacturing has one workflow at every depth: the work order's lifecycle in §10.5 is the same whether the company runs Simple or Standard elsewhere. The depth choice shapes the sales and purchasing documents around production — never the work order itself.