Make to order

Use make-to-order when a sales line needs production before it can be delivered. Sales previews makeable lines, creates manufacturing orders, and links them back to the sales order lines.

bridges sales to manufacturingplanned date defaults from ship dateone linked MO per selected line

Make to order vs. make to stock

Make to order links the manufacturing output to the sales line demand. Make to stock creates manufacturing work for the same product without earmarking it to the sales line.

Both paths create real manufacturing orders. The difference is how the output relates to the sales demand queue.

1. Find a line that needs production

A sales line’s Production cell shows Make when the line can be manufactured and needs production. You can open the manufacturing dialog from:

Place	Action
Order menu	Create manufacturing order(s) when the order has manufacturable lines.
Line Production cell	Make to order or Make to stock for that line.
Orders list Production cell	The same production options and linked-order status.

2. Review the preview

The dialog loads a preview of creatable and skipped lines. It includes a planned date that defaults to one day before the order’s shipping date when a shipping date exists.

For batch-mode products, the editable quantity can represent batch count and is converted into planned output. For normal lines, the make quantity follows the remaining demand.

3. Create the manufacturing orders

Confirm the selected lines. Sales creates linked manufacturing orders with salesOrderId and salesOrderLineId, then refreshes the order.

Skipped lines show a reason, such as:

Reason	Meaning
Non-product	The line is not a manufacturable product.
Inactive product	The product cannot currently be made.
No active BOM	There is no current recipe for the product.
Existing active MO	An open linked manufacturing order already exists.
No remaining demand	Nothing remains to make for the line.
Order not open	The sales order is no longer open.

Track the link

After creation, the line’s Production cell follows the linked manufacturing order: Not started, Work in progress, Blocked, or Done. When manufacturing completes and records output, allocation can use that expected or available supply for the sales order.