Brytebuild blog
Practical guides on MRP, stock control and manufacturing for UK manufacturers.
A blanket order fixes price and quantity for a period and is drawn down by call-offs. Where a spreadsheet loses track, what the agreement has to…
Read more: Blanket orders and call-offs: how to run a twelve-month agreement without over-releasing it →
Supplier-owned consignment stock and customer-supplied free-issue material both sit on your racking and both break a stock system that assumes everything on the shelf is yours.…
Read more: Consignment stock and free-issue material: stock on your shelf that is not yours →
ATP answers "is it on the shelf"; CTP answers "can we make it by then". Why a make-to-order shop needs the second, what a promise has…
Read more: Available-to-promise vs capable-to-promise: giving a delivery date you can keep →
A short note on what actually shipped this quarter: ISO 9001 clause 9, the quarantine register, forecasting into MRP, landed cost, and what did not ship.
Read more: What shipped this quarter →
A standard cost typed in once goes stale the day a component price moves. What standard and actual cost each answer, how a BOM and route…
Read more: Standard cost vs actual cost: why your quotes drift and how a roll-up fixes it →
One licence rate for everybody assumes an operator and a production manager use the system the same way. Where that assumption breaks, and what it costs…
Read more: Shop-floor seats, and why per-user pricing stops at the office door →
Booking freight and duty to overhead makes every product look like its invoice price. What that distorts, how allocation works, and how to size the problem.
Read more: What landed cost hides, and what changes when you track it →
First expired first out is not a stricter version of first in first out. Where the two diverge, what FEFO requires to work, and the failure…
Read more: FEFO in plain English, and why FIFO is not the same thing →
The obligation follows the product, not the company. What the DPP requires, when the deadlines land, and the groundwork that takes longest.
Read more: What UK manufacturers need to do about the Digital Product Passport →
A recall asks a narrow question your records either answer or do not. What forward and backward traceability actually require, and a rehearsal worth running first.
Read more: Lot traceability in a recall: what your records have to survive →
