Additional Manufacturing Capabilities Overview

GoldFinch provides additional manufacturing capabilities for organizations that need more than basic work-order and production-journal processing.

These capabilities help manufacturers coordinate warehouse activities, report production progress, manage rework and by-products, plan work-center capacity, support batch production, and connect outside processing with supply planning—all on the Salesforce platform.

Available capabilities can be adapted to each organization’s products, facilities, and production processes.

Work Order Pick Tickets

Work-order pick tickets help warehouse and production teams prepare the materials required for manufacturing.

A pick ticket can communicate:

• Components required
• Planned quantities
• Warehouse and bin locations
• Lot information
• Barcodes
• Related work-order information

This gives warehouse personnel clear instructions for gathering and moving materials to the production area.

Production Reporting by Routing Operation

Manufacturers that use item routings can report production activity by operation or work center.

This provides greater visibility into:

• Which production steps have started
• Which operations have been completed
• Output reported at each stage
• Remaining production activities
• Work-center progress
• Production delays or exceptions

Operation-level reporting is useful when products move through multiple departments, machines, or processing stages.

Rework Work Orders

Rework work orders help organizations manage items that require repair, correction, inspection, repackaging, or additional processing.

A rework process can help track:

• The item being reworked
• Materials added or replaced
• Work performed
• Production output
• Inventory changes
• Rework-related costs
• Completion status

This creates a clearer production history than handling rework through undocumented inventory adjustments.

By-Products

Some manufacturing processes create secondary outputs in addition to the primary finished product.

GoldFinch can support by-products such as:

• Recoverable materials
• Secondary food products
• Scrap with resale value
• Reusable production outputs
• Other inventory generated during manufacturing

Recording by-products provides a more complete view of production output, inventory, and manufacturing cost.

Work-Center Capacity Planning

Work-center capacity planning helps manufacturers compare production requirements with available resources.

Organizations can use work-center information to evaluate:

• Planned production load
• Available labor or machine time
• Potential capacity shortages
• Scheduling conflicts
• Bottlenecks
• Alternative production timing

This helps planners make more informed scheduling decisions and identify capacity constraints before they disrupt production.

Register Production Work

GoldFinch can capture work performed against production operations.

Depending on the organization’s requirements, production teams may use this capability to record:

• Operation progress
• Completed quantities
• Time spent
• Work-center activity
• Employee or resource involvement
• Production status

Registering work provides more detailed operational visibility than reporting only final production output.

Daily Production Reporting

Organizations with recurring or high-volume production can report output regularly—for example, by shift or production day.

Daily production reporting helps teams:

• Record completed quantities promptly
• Monitor progress against the work order
• Update inventory throughout the production cycle
• Identify production differences earlier
• Provide current information to planning and customer-facing teams

A single work order can support multiple production entries when output is completed over time.

Backflushing Materials

Backflushing records expected component consumption based on the quantity produced.

This can reduce manual data entry when:

• Component usage is predictable.
• Materials are issued consistently.
• Recording every component transaction individually would add limited value.
• Production volume is high.
• Appropriate controls exist for reviewing material differences.

Organizations can compare expected and actual usage and adjust their process when significant differences occur.

Batch Production Output

Batch manufacturing often requires flexibility because actual output may differ from the planned batch quantity.

GoldFinch supports reporting for batch-manufactured items where:

• Finished yield varies
• Ingredient usage differs from planned quantities
• Lot tracking is required
• Manufacturing and expiration dates must be recorded
• Production is completed in multiple stages
• Process loss or additional output must be recognized

This is particularly useful for food and beverage, chemicals, personal care products, supplements, and other formula-based manufacturing.

Outside Processing and Supply Planning

Include outside processing when evaluating supply requirements.

This helps organizations coordinate:

• Production performed by external vendors
• Materials required for outsourced operations
• Outside-service purchasing
• Expected production dates
• Inventory held at partner locations
• Finished goods expected from outside processors

Connecting outsourced production with supply planning gives teams a more complete view of future supply and material requirements.

Connected Manufacturing on Salesforce

Because GoldFinch is native to Salesforce, these manufacturing capabilities can be connected with:

• Sales and customer demand
• Inventory availability
• Purchasing and replenishment
• Warehouse activities
• Production planning
• Quality-related information
• Inventory costing and accounting
• Reports, dashboards, automation, and approved AI capabilities

This gives operations and customer-facing teams shared visibility without relying on disconnected applications or spreadsheets.

Business Benefits

• Greater production visibility: Monitor work orders, operations, output, and remaining activity.
• Better warehouse coordination: Prepare and move materials according to production demand.
• More accurate inventory: Record primary output, by-products, rework, and material consumption.
• Improved capacity decisions: Compare production demand with work-center availability.
• Flexible production reporting: Support daily, partial, routing-based, and batch reporting.
• Reduced manual effort: Use pick tickets, backflushing, and connected production records.
• Improved exception management: Identify delays, shortages, rework, and capacity constraints earlier.
• Unified operations: Connect manufacturing with sales, purchasing, warehouse management, supply planning, and accounting.

Signed-in customers can access detailed instructions for configuring and using these manufacturing capabilities.