For small manufacturers
Nested bills of materials, counted against everything else you have promised. Release a build and the parts are reserved. Come up short and it refuses, with the reason.
One plan, US$149 per month. Five users and every workflow.
What it answers
A build touches finished goods, subassemblies and raw materials at once. As Counted works through the bill and tells you where you stand before anything is committed.
Preview a draft order to see what it needs, what is free and what is short, at every level of the bill. Drafts reserve nothing.
bench × 1 · oak leg short 1
No. A build uses only subassemblies that are free, not the ones another order has already reserved. The other order keeps its stock.
2 on hand · 1 reserved → 1 free
Releasing explodes the bill against what is free now and works out raw materials only for what still has to be built. Purchase orders due in are counted too.
raw needed for 2 B, not 3
Release is refused with an explanation: the item, how many are needed, how many are free and how many are short. Nothing is reserved.
refused · need 4 · free 3 · short 1
Worked example
Assembly A needs 3 of subassembly B. Each B is built from 2 raw material R. You have 2 B on hand, but 1 is already reserved for another order.
Only 1 B is free. The release reserves it, then expands the bill only for the 2 B still to build.
| Step | Item | Need | Free | Short |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Use free | Subassembly B | 3 | 1 | – |
| Build | Subassembly B | 2 | – | |
| Raw part | Raw material R | 4 | 10 | – |
Raw material R, 10 on hand: 4 committed, 6 still free to promise.
Bring your bills of materials from a spreadsheet.
The rules
Built subassemblies that are free are used before anything is built. Ones reserved by other orders are never taken.
need 3 B · 1 free → use 1
Only what still needs building is broken down into its components. A built subassembly and its components are never both reserved.
build 2 B → 4 R
If every raw component is covered, the plan is frozen and reserved from the build date. If one is short, release is refused and nothing is reserved.
refused: components-short
Consumption and production are recorded together in the ledger. A bill that an open order builds from cannot be changed under it.
consume 1 B, 4 R · produce 1 A
Setup is import-first: bring items, opening stock and bills of materials from CSV or Excel, with every row checked before anything is saved. A bill that would contain itself is refused. Stock corrections need a reason and are kept in the ledger.
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