The work order is a hub with three spokes, all navigable:
- GL Postings — an action on the order's record lists every journal batch the order has posted: issues, receipts and the closing variance, each narrated with the order's code.
- Stock movements — every issue and receipt is a movement in the ledger of Chapter 5, carrying the work order as its source; from any movement you can walk back to the order that caused it, and from the order outward to the movements it made.
- The BOM Explosion enquiry (§10.9) is the planning print of this module — what a make would need — and exports the way every report does (Chapter 1).
- The work order traveller — the work order's own paper: Print / PDF on the order prints a job card with the order's header (product, warehouses, target quantity, what has been received) and one line per component with the quantity required, the quantity issued so far and the quantity remaining — every quantity with its unit of measure. A released order prints the requirements it snapshotted at release; a draft prints the plan exploded from its bill of materials, marked as planned, so the floor can see what a release will ask for before anyone commits to it.
There is no customer-facing document in manufacturing: what the order produces re-enters the commercial world as ordinary stock, and its story from there is told by sales and inventory documents as usual.