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Production managers, finance teams and shop floor supervisors

Manufacturing user manual

Recipes, production orders, IAS 2 batch costs, quality and cure, trace and FDA recalls, customer jobs, month end, piece rates, excise and the phone shop floor.

21 articles

Workflows and guidance

  1. Getting Started Welcome to the SikaBooks Manufacturing module. It helps a Ghanaian workshop or factory turn Inventory materials into finished products, keep a complete batch record, and know what...
  2. Turning Manufacturing On Manufacturing is a paid module. It needs Inventory. Accounting is optional: production is recorded and costed with or without it. This chapter covers switching it on and giving you...
  3. Settings Settings decides how batches are made, costed, numbered and posted. Set it up before your first production order and review it with your finance lead. Recipe approval defaults to O...
  4. Recipes A recipe is the bill of materials plus the work needed to make one batch of a product. Every saved change creates a new version, and each production order keeps the version it was...
  5. Production Orders A production order is one run of a recipe. It holds the materials, the work, the output and the cost of that run. Where to find it: Sidebar > Production > Production orders 5.1 Ord...
  6. Batch Cost and Accounting Each finished batch has a final unit cost worked out under IAS 2. This chapter explains the method with a real example and shows what posts to Accounting. Who can see it: View prod...
  7. What to Make and the Buy List What to make compares demand with stock and suggests whole batches. Nothing is made or bought until you confirm. Where to find it: Sidebar > Production > What to make 7.1 Where Dem...
  8. Customer Jobs A job keeps a customer's make-to-order work together: the requirements, private materials, production runs, deliveries, deposits and the balance invoice. Where to find it: Sidebar...
  9. Batches and Trace Trace shows what went into a batch and where its output went. Use it to investigate a complaint, prepare for an inspection or start a recall. Where to find it: Sidebar > Products >...
  10. Quality and Cure Quality keeps a batch off sale until its checks pass, its cure time is over, and an independent quality lead releases it. Where to find it: Sidebar > Products > Quality and recalls...
  11. Recalls A recall pulls a batch back from the market. SikaBooks keeps the deadlines, notices, returns and decisions together and produces the FDA recall report. Where to find it: Sidebar >...
  12. Reports and PDFs Reports lists finished batches with their actual cost against the recipe, and links to the month-end, Payroll and excise reports. Where to find it: Sidebar > Insight > Reports 12.1...
  13. Month End Month end compares the factory costs you booked with what batches took in, and lets finance close the month for manufacturing. Where to find it: Sidebar > Insight > Reports > Month...
  14. Piece Rates and Payroll Piece rates pay workers for good units on a step. Approved counts become Payroll earnings, so Payroll pays them through its normal process. 14.1 Setting Up a Piece-Rate Step In the...
  15. Outsourced Steps An outsourced step is work a supplier does for a batch, such as cutting, printing or laboratory testing. Its cost joins the batch once, alongside materials and internal labour. 15....
  16. Excise and Tax Stamps Excise tracks duty on excisable products that leave the plant, and the GRA tax stamps you put on them. Excise rates for 2026 are not confirmed in SikaBooks. Every rate and start da...
  17. The Phone Shop Floor Shop floor staff can start orders, run timers, use material lots and record output from the SikaBooks app. The office still finishes and costs each batch. The phone screens come wi...
  18. Working With Other Modules Manufacturing shares products, stock, documents and journals with other modules. Each link checks that the other module is enabled and skips quietly when it is not. 18.1 Inventory...
  19. Troubleshooting and FAQ 19.1 Common Messages Message What to do Choose the workshop and finished products locations in Settings first. Set Workshop and Finished products go to in Settings, or choose them...
  20. Glossary Term Meaning Abnormal loss Loss beyond the recipe's normal loss. Written off to 5170, not added to stock cost Backflush Issuing materials automatically from the recipe when output...
  21. Work-Centre Capacity Work-centre scheduling is optional. Manufacturing Settings has an Off / Warn / Block capacity policy, initially Off. It measures simultaneous operation units, not normal monthly ou...