From bill of material to finished cost, without a spreadsheet in the middle.

A production order is an argument between three numbers: what the bill of material said it would consume, what the floor actually consumed, and what the finished item therefore cost. Most systems only settle that argument after the fact.

Chikito treats consumption as it happens. Components leave stock against the order that consumed them, and the finished item carries the cost it actually accrued — not the cost it was supposed to.

Manufacturing

What gets in the way

Costs that drift from the BOM

Substituted components and over-issues are normal on a real floor. They only become a problem when the system pretends they did not happen.

Stock committed but not consumed

Material allocated to an open order is not available to sell. Keeping allocation and availability on one record stops the same stock being promised twice.

Traceability after the fact

When a customer asks which batch went into their order, the answer should be a lookup, not an investigation.

One record, end to end

How the work moves

The same record travels the whole way. No export step, no re-keying between stages.

  1. 01

    Bill of material

    The recipe: components, quantities and the item they produce.

  2. 02

    Production order

    Raised against demand, allocating the components it needs.

  3. 03

    Consumption

    Components leave stock as they are used, with the variance visible.

  4. 04

    Finished goods

    The item enters stock carrying its true accrued cost.

Questions

Manufacturing, specifically

Does it support multi-level bills of material?

Yes — sub-assemblies are items in their own right, produced by their own orders and consumed by the level above.

Can we run this on our own servers?

Yes. Every Chikito product runs in the cloud, in your private cloud, or on hardware you own, with your data staying in your database.

Tell us how your manufacturing business runs

We'll show you the product working against your processes, not a slide deck.