Your first week: a setup checklist
The order that gets you from an empty workspace to a planned order fastest.
You can do these in any order, but this sequence lets each step build on the one before it.
- Company and currency. Fill in Settings → Company. (Create your workspace)
- Locations. Create your storage locations and bins in Settings → Locations, then print their labels. (Locations and bins)
- Products and BOMs. Add parts and assemblies, build each assembly's bill of materials and release them. (Products and BOMs)
- Opening stock. Record what is on the shelf with a stock adjustment or a first receipt.
- Suppliers and customers. Add the suppliers you buy from and the customers you sell to.
- Production lines. In Production Control, open Configure lines and add each line or cell.
- Work instructions. Write and release instructions for your assemblies. (Work instructions)
- Printers and carriers. Connect label printers in Settings → Documents & labels and carriers in Settings → Integrations.
- Phones. Install the shop-floor app on the devices your team uses. (The shop-floor app)
- A real order. Enter a sales order and confirm it. Watch the planner reserve stock and plan the work. (How the planner works)
Already have parts in SolidWorks PDM or orders in a webstore? See Integrations and the REST API to bring them in instead of typing them.