Hello All,

I use (or will use shortly) sales and manufacturing to help me track orders in my business. In my business we provide services and the service is a multistage process. I've almost achieved what I want but the lack of information attached to the manufacturing orders created from sales orders is going to be a massive inconvenience / ruin everything.

I'll explain the process first so it explains the suitation:

An order comes in externally e.g. 2 of product 1 and 5 of product 2

Product 1 and 2 have routing set up in manufacturing, the routing's are almost the same except the first workstation as they differ slightly

I create a sales order for the customer and input the order information > confirm the sale > manufacturing orders are created

The problem arises here, the two separate manufacturing orders have almost no information on them, so if we look at the 1st manufacturing order for product 1, you have no idea that there is another manufacturing order for the same customer. It is important to know this because it only makes sense to start processing in the later stages if both of them are at the same stage. I've tried attaching notes for the order number but this only seems to be local to the exact page that the note is made.

Any suggestions to overcome this. The only thing I can think of is to simply group the products together in areas at work, but this is far from ideal.

Thanks,
Sean