Guides
Short answers to questions small shops ask about tracking work and material. Each guide says what the practice is, how Simple Industry handles it, and where it stops.
How a ten-person fab shop tracks production
A small shop keeps two things current: where each job is standing and what is on the shelf. This guide covers how orders come in, how the board shows where work is, and what the software does not schedule.
Using QuickBooks with production and inventory tracking
QuickBooks keeps the books, and sales are read in from it. This guide covers what comes in, and why nothing is written back.
Read: Using QuickBooks with production and inventory tracking
What a traveler is and when a small shop needs one
A traveler is the sheet that follows a job through its operations, with a sign-off at each step. This guide covers how a routing becomes a traveler on a job and what the sign-offs connect to.
Tracking plate and tube when remnants float around the shop
Simple Industry does not track individual remnants. This guide covers what it does instead: one count per part with a reason on every change, and material lots as a record of what arrived.
Read: Tracking plate and tube when remnants float around the shop
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