Only in case ‘3’ above will there be production jobs that require time and material.
Many MIS systems can only work with ‘
jobs’: they can define the different products within a job but they are stuck with partial production/take out of stock and with the purchase of products.
So the function of creating a label or package printing job is to:
Group all sales orders with products ‘
to be produced’, based upon the same estimate
Find the cheapest production route among the production alternatives within the estimate
Combine (gang) labels on frames
Create new job-ID’s
This means that it is sometimes not one estimate that is ‘