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Manufacturing Operations

Manufacturing at Opulo is broken into three main parts:

  • Sourcing: Ordering inventory, tracking inventory, communicating with vendors, removing inventory as builds complete.
  • Production: Deciding what should get built this week, building product, performing QC checks
  • Fulfillment: Packing individual orders, printing labels, handling customs

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The weekly flow is structured as follows:

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    title One Week in Opulo Manufacturing
    section Monday
      Sourcing : Sourcing Manager Finalizes last week's `BATCH-0001` build, plus any extra / replacement parts that were not part of the original Build List
               : Sourcing Manager makes `BATCH-0001` build in Aligni based on Build List from Production Manager last week, scheduled completion this Friday
               : Sourcing Manager provides Build number for Production to use for serial numbers
               : Purchase Forecasting is run with `BATCH-0002` based on Shopify export of last 90 days of sales.
               : Purchasing for any short items begins.
      Production : Build begins
    section Tuesday
      Production    : Build continues
    section Wednesday
      Production    : Build continues
    section Thursday
      Production    : Build continues
    section Friday
      Production    : This week build completes, packout begins
                    : Production Manager generates next week's Build List (either from ShipStation or their brain, depending on if we're ahead or behind)

While we have a lead time, we treat production and fulfillment as one branch, because they happen together and need to inform each other. Whatever gets built in a week also gets shipped that week.

Without a lead time and with inventory on the shelf, production just provides finished stock to a shelf awaiting packout. Fulfillment is then just reacting to orders as they come in.

This section of OHAI has SOPs for each of these sections of Manufacturing.