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 ‘