Manufacturing Overview

GoldFinch Manufacturing helps manufacturers plan, manage, and track production directly in Salesforce. It connects manufactured items, bills of materials, production activities, inventory movements, purchasing, and warehouse operations in one integrated system.

Organizations can use GoldFinch to manage standard, batch, configure-to-order, and outsourced production processes while maintaining real-time visibility into materials, work in progress, and finished goods.

Core Manufacturing Capabilities

Manufactured Items and Bills of Materials

Define manufactured items and the materials required to produce them. Bills of materials can include raw materials, packaging, subassemblies, and other components used during production.

GoldFinch also supports formula versions, phantom bills of materials, and material revisions for organizations with more complex product structures.

Routings and Work Centers

Define the production activities, work centers, labor, and outside services required to manufacture an item. Routings help standardize production processes and provide visibility into how work moves through the operation.

Work Order Management

Create and manage work orders to plan, authorize, and monitor production. Each work order identifies the item being produced, the required quantity, component requirements, routing activities, important dates, and production status.

Work orders can also support material allocation, picking, requisitioning, rework, and capacity planning.

Material Consumption and Production Output

Record the materials consumed and the finished goods produced during manufacturing. These transactions update inventory quantities and provide an accurate record of production activity.

GoldFinch supports both actual material consumption and backflushing, depending on the organization’s production process.

Batch Manufacturing

Manage formula-based or batch production where output quantities, yields, lot tracking, and actual material usage may vary. Batch manufacturing is well suited for food and beverage, chemical, personal care, and other process-oriented manufacturers.

Outside Processing and Co-Packing

Coordinate production activities performed by external vendors or co-packers. GoldFinch can help manage outside-service purchasing, material transfers, vendor-held inventory, subcontracted operations, and the receipt of completed goods.

Production Planning and Inventory Visibility

Connect manufacturing demand with purchasing, inventory, sales orders, and supply planning. Users can identify material requirements, monitor shortages, allocate available inventory, and coordinate production with customer demand.

Business Benefits

• Unified operations on Salesforce: Connect manufacturing with customers, sales, purchasing, inventory, warehousing, and accounting.
• Real-time production visibility: Monitor work orders, material availability, consumption, output, and production status.
• Improved inventory accuracy: Update raw materials, work in progress, and finished goods as production activity occurs.
• Flexible production processes: Support standard manufacturing, batch production, rework, by-products, outside services, and co-packing.
• Better coordination: Give production, purchasing, warehouse, customer service, and management teams access to consistent operational information.
• Scalable manufacturing control: Begin with straightforward production processes and add more advanced capabilities as operational needs grow.

An Integrated Manufacturing Platform

Because GoldFinch is native to Salesforce, it connects manufacturing information with Salesforce accounts, contacts, opportunities, customer service, reporting, dashboards, automation, and approved AI capabilities.

GoldFinch Manufacturing brings production and customer-facing operations together, helping manufacturers improve visibility, respond more quickly, and manage growth without relying on disconnected systems and spreadsheets.