Production

Production — making pieces for inventory

Production is in-house bench work that builds new pieces for the showcase. Distinct from Repairs (service work on existing pieces) and Custom Jobs (customer-triggered builds). At close-out, spawns one or more StockIDs in inventory carrying the accumulated bench cost as the cost basis.

Production — making pieces for inventory

Production is the third job module alongside Repairs and Custom Jobs. Each module has a single clear purpose:

Module	What you’re doing	Output
Repairs	Fixing an existing piece (customer’s or in-house)	Customer pickup OR cost rolled onto a StockID
Custom Jobs	Building something new for a specific customer	Customer pickup + invoice
Production	Building something new for your inventory	New StockID(s), cost rolled in

Production orders are listed under Inventory → Stock Orders (the shared list of everything coming into stock). The quickest way to start one is from the Style Catalog: open the House Designs filter, tick the designs you want to make, and click Reproduce — that creates a production order per design (you set quantities and stages on the job afterward).

When to use Production

Making a one-off ring for the showcase
Re-casting / refurbishing for stock
(Manufacturer) running a batch of N identical pieces from a saved design

For “just attach stones to a setting with no bench labor to track” — that’s not a job. Open the inventory item and use the SetStones tab instead.

Two modes

Simple mode (everyone)

Free-form description (“14K white solitaire ring, size 6”)
One piece per job
Add stages and stones as you work
Close-out spawns one StockID with the accumulated cost

Style-driven mode

Pick a saved design from your Style Catalog (the House Designs chip)
Set quantity > 1 for batch runs
Cost rolls up from the BOM defined on the style
Close-out spawns N identical StockIDs

Workflow on each job

Intake — describe what you’re making (or pick a design), set the target date, and optionally assign a lead jeweler under Assigned To (you can change the assignee later from the job’s header). Per-stage vendors are set separately on each stage.
Add stages — Casting, Setting, Polish, etc. Each stage has a vendor (in-house jeweler or outside caster), a cost, due date, and status.
Allocate stones — pick stones from inventory; they decrement at allocate and re-credit if you remove them.
Mark stages complete — costs roll up automatically as you go.
Complete & Create Inventory — close-out button spawns the StockIDs and stamps the cost basis.

Workshop Monitor

In-flight production jobs show up on the workshop monitor alongside Repairs and Custom Jobs. The bench sees everything in one queue regardless of which module owns the work.

Vendor Styles vs House Designs

The Style Catalog can be filtered two complementary ways via the chip row at the top of the page:

Vendor Styles — everyone else’s catalogs (Stuller, etc.) you might order from
House Designs — your own designs that you produce in-house

Same underlying table, different filter. All shows both.

Style Catalog — where saved designs live (one row per design or vendor style).
Purchase Orders — when you’re buying a piece rather than making one. Outsourced production POs (request the caster to make N for you) live there too.
Workshop Monitor — at-a-glance kiosk view of every active job across all three modules.