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Manage Production Your Way

Wherefour’s work order-driven production module makes it easy to customize your production flow to what meets your needs. From consistent, daily production to production needs that are driven by your daily customer orders, we’ve got you covered.

Plus, Wherefour’s COGS tracking means that your true production unit costs are always just a click away.

Instant Work Orders
Instant Pulls

As your business grows, it becomes even more critical to share production knowledge with teams, and organize that knowledge in a system everyone can use and understand. With Wherefour, your team is able to see the status of each work order and pull inventory and enter (or adjust) results as needed. Our "auto results" button even lets them save time by pre-filling the results of a batch, automatically.

Wherefour becomes the source of truth for your production and inventory activity, so that knowledge doesn’t walk out the door in the event of team changes.

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Stronger Margins Through Smarter Reporting

Quickly generate detailed cost reports for your production runs with breakdowns for raw materials and labor used, include standard cost variances. See what your inventory levels were in the past at a specific date and time, or how much material your business consumed in a certain time period. With our complete set of reporting tools, you keep an eagle eye on the health of your business and whether product costs are in line with expectations.

Effortless
Integrations

Connect QuickBooks®, Xero, and more to sync inventory, orders, and invoices automatically. Reduce manual entry and close your books faster with fewer errors.

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Production Management Software FAQs

Production management software helps manufacturers plan, execute, and track production runs from start to finish. It manages work orders, formulas and recipes, material pulls, labor, yields, and costs, giving operations teams a single system of record instead of disconnected spreadsheets and whiteboards.

A work order is an instruction to produce a specific quantity of a product using a defined formula or recipe. It triggers the reservation of raw materials, tracks production progress, records actual yields, and captures costs, creating an auditable record of every batch your facility produces.

Wherefour tracks COGS in real time at the work order level. Every material pull, labor entry, and overhead cost is captured as production happens so your true unit cost per batch is always a click away. This eliminates the guesswork of end-of-month cost reconciliation and helps you spot margin issues before they compound.

Yes. Wherefour ties every production run to its source ingredients via lot tracking, creating an unbroken audit trail from raw material to finished product. Control Points enforce QA checks at defined steps in the workflow, so production can't advance until each check is completed and recorded, keeping your operation audit-ready at all times.