Work Centers, Routings and Capacity

Work Centers and Routings let Udyot cost the labour and machine time in your products, and plan how much your factory can produce. Together they turn a material-only BOM into a full-cost recipe and a schedulable capacity plan.

Work Centers

A Work Center is a machine, line, or workstation with an hourly machine rate, an hourly labour rate, and a daily capacity. Set these up under Manufacturing → Work Centers. Example: “Stitching Line 1 — 8 hours/day”.

Routings

A Routing is the ordered list of operations to make a product — each operation runs on a Work Center with a setup time and a per-unit run time. Udyot uses the routing to calculate labour + machine cost for any run quantity. Routings are versioned, so you can improve a process without losing the cost history of past production.

Attaching a routing to a BOM

Open a BOM and select a routing. The BOM cost breakdown now shows material, labour, and overhead per unit. If you enable overhead absorption, those labour and overhead costs are capitalised into finished goods when you post a Manufacturing Journal.

Capacity planning

The Capacity Planning calendar (Manufacturing → Capacity) spreads each released Production Order’s operation minutes across its scheduled days and shows utilisation per Work Center — green up to 80%, amber to 100%, red when overbooked. Non-working days from your holiday calendar and weekly offs are skipped automatically, so the plan reflects real working days in Nepal.

Tips & common questions

Do I need routings to manufacture? No — they are optional. Without a routing, production is costed on materials only. Add routings when you want labour/overhead costing and capacity planning.

Related: Costing & Variance, Production Orders.