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Welcome to Ashicore

Ashicore is an inventory-first operations app — a light MRP for small-scale batch manufacturers who buy materials, make products to a recipe, and ship them to customers. One lot-backed, costed inventory core sits at the center, and Purchasing, Manufacturing, and Sales all read from and write to it. This page orients you before you dive into a module.

4 modules1 shared inventory core~5 min read

The model

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Ashicore is event-sourced at its core. Every movement — a receipt, a build, a shipment, an adjustment — is recorded as an event in an append-only inventory ledger. On-hand quantity, demand, expected supply, and available-to-promise are all projected from that ledger, never typed in by hand. The four modules are different lenses onto the same shared core: Purchasing writes stock in, Manufacturing turns materials into products, Sales commits and ships them out, and Stocktakes reconciles the records to what is physically on the shelf.

Modules

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InventoryItems, recipes, the ledger, lots, stocktakes, and transfers — the single source of truth the other three modules build on.Items objectStock & lots objectThe inventory ledger conceptSalesSales orders, customers, and pricing schedules. Orders pull live availability, drive production, and book margin when they ship.Sales orders objectCustomers objectPricing schedules objectPurchasingPurchase orders and suppliers. A draft-to-received workflow with lot-backed receiving and landed cost.Purchase orders objectSuppliers objectManufacturingManufacturing orders and resources. Snapshots a product’s recipe per order and books costed, lot-backed output.Manufacturing orders objectBills of materials objectResources object

Get set up

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A workspace becomes useful once it knows your materials, products, partners, and what you have on hand. The fastest path is to bring your existing records in, then connect the systems you already run your business on.

Import your existing dataUpload spreadsheets and let Ashicore compile a reviewable starting catalog — units, partners, items, opening stock, and recipes.Connect your accountingLink Xero or QuickBooks so sales invoices and supplier bills sync with your books.Add a product or material by handPrefer to start clean? Create the item everything else references, then build its recipe.

Good to know

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  • Built for batch makers. Materials, products defined by a bill of materials, and production in discrete or batch runs.
  • Lot- and cost-aware throughout. Stock is tracked in lots with cost attached; margin on a sale is estimated up front and booked for real when it ships.
  • Not a general ledger. Ashicore syncs accounting documents to Xero or QuickBooks rather than keeping its own AP/AR, GL, or payments — your accounting system stays the book of record.
  • No capacity or auto-MRP planning. You plan and prioritize manufacturing orders directly; there’s no work-center scheduling or auto-generated MRP run.

What’s next

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