Build tomorrow's production plan

The production plan tells the bakery what to make tomorrow. Pick a production date and the department that bakes, and it adds up every finished item the customers need that day — from sales orders, from standing orders, and from the shelf stock you want to keep for walk-in sales — takes off what is already in stock, works out how many recipe batches cover the rest, costs them, and lists the raw materials to buy by the evening.

When you are happy, Approve turns the suggestions into Draft production runs. Nothing is consumed and nothing is posted until someone releases and completes those runs in the ordinary way.

You can rebuild and approve the same date and department as often as you like. The plan updates its own Draft runs instead of creating new ones, removes its Drafts that are no longer needed, and never touches a run that has already been released, completed or cancelled — those are reported under Skipped so you can decide what to do.