User manual

The reference pages behind every ? say what each screen does. This manual is the other thing: a narrative, in the order you'd actually do it, from an empty company to running production. Each chapter links into the reference where the detail lives.

1. What MRP is, and what this system is
2. Setting up: company, people, categories, locations
3. Your parts
4. Taking on stock, and keeping it true
5. Buying: suppliers, sourcing, purchase orders
6. Engineering: bills of materials and routings
7. Making: workstations and work orders
8. Planning: demand, the run, and firming
9. Attention: tasks and the alert bar
10. Integrations: the API, custom data, machines
11. A day, a week, a month
12. Glossary

Read 1 for the ideas, 2–4 before you enter anything, and the rest as you need them.