Inventory and orders for export manufacturers
A made-to-order export job is never finished when it is agreed. The buyer revises it, half of it is sitting with three different makers, and the quote you gave in March has to survive whatever the steel costs in June. That is a tracking problem long before it is a stock problem.
What you get
What changes for this trade
The buyer revises after the work has started
A revision is recorded against the original order, so what changed, what was already made and what still has to be bought are three separate answers rather than one argument.
Half the order is out with the makers
Processes are the shop floor steps, wash, check, polish, pack, each with a named worker. They sit alongside the stock count rather than inside it, so work in progress never pretends to be finished goods.
What you can ship is not what you hold
A planning sheet works an order line by line: take what is in stock, then raise one consolidated purchase order per vendor for the rest. The plan is the document, not somebody's memory of the meeting.
raise the order before the rate is agreedThe quote only holds if the cost is real
Purchase orders go out before the rate is agreed, which is how this trade actually buys, and the real price is captured at goods receipt and backfilled to the vendor ledger. Margin on an export order is measured, not estimated.
Included
- Revisions recorded against the original order
- Work steps with a named worker per step
- Shop floor steps kept out of the stock count
- Planning sheets worked line by line
- One consolidated purchase order per vendor
- Cost captured at goods receipt, not estimated
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When this is the wrong plan
If you are not holding stock yet, selling made-to-order, or only through Instagram DMs, start on the free OrderLink page instead. It costs nothing and you can move up when the volume is real.
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Inventory
Raising a purchase order before the rate is agreed
Import buying rarely has a price on the day you raise the order. Guessing one puts a number that was never real into every report you own.
Read the guideInventory
When the delivery does not match the order
Short, extra and damaged each need a different answer at the door. Signing for the paperwork instead of the goods is how stock records start lying.
Read the guidePricing
What inventory software really costs in year one
The monthly fee is the number everyone compares. The first-year total is usually two to four times bigger, and almost all of the difference is your own time.
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Asked and answered
Yes. The revision is held against the original order rather than replacing it, so you can see what the buyer first asked for, what changed, and which of it had already been made or bought by the time the change arrived.
Yes. Each process step, wash, check, polish, pack, records the worker who did it. When a piece fails inspection you can see where it went through and who handled it, without turning the stock count into a job card.
Not in the ERP sense. There is no bill of materials and no production scheduling, so if you need MRP, this is the wrong tool and we will say so. What it does cover is the part most export workshops actually lose money on: the order and its revisions, the work sitting with makers, the buying, and the real cost of what came back.
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