Foudra MRP reference
New here? Start with the user manual — a narrative from an empty company to running production, opening with what MRP and MRP II are.
This is the reference manual: one page per screen, reachable from the ? button in the top bar of every page. It says what a page is for, what each field means, what values it accepts, and what the buttons do. It is not a tutorial — a step-by-step guide will be built from these pages later.
Sections
| Area | Pages |
|---|---|
| Dashboard | Dashboard |
| Catalog | Parts · Part page · New / edit · Import · Categories · Locations |
| Engineering | Bill of materials · Routing · Sourcing · Custom data · Change category · Merge |
| Stock | Stock · Record a movement · Movements · Transfers needed |
| Purchasing | Purchase orders · Order page · Receive goods · Replenishment · Suppliers · Sourcing list |
| Planning | Planning · Demand · New demand |
| Selling | Channels · Listings |
| Production | Work orders · Work order page · Workstations · Workstation page · Groups |
| Administration | Users · API keys · Webhooks · Companies |
| Integration | The API |
| Signing in | Login · Forgotten password |
Conventions used everywhere
Quantities are decimals with up to four places (2.5 metres of tube, 0.012 kg of filament). Money is a decimal with up to four places plus a currency; it is never a float. A dash (—) on a page means not set; the same field is simply blank on an edit form.
Roles. What you can do depends on your role:
| Role | Can |
|---|---|
| viewer | Read everything |
| operator | …and record stock movements, act on tasks, start and complete work order steps, set workstation status |
| planner | …and create or edit parts, categories, locations, BOMs, routings, sourcing, suppliers, purchase orders, work orders |
| admin | …and manage users and API keys, and approve purchase orders |
| owner | Everything, including billing (when it exists) |
Buttons you are not allowed to use are hidden; the server enforces the rule regardless.
Find a part is the box in the top bar of every page (press / to jump to it). It searches part numbers, names, descriptions and notes; a search that matches exactly one part, or names a part number exactly, opens that part directly, otherwise it shows the matching list.
Part fields on forms filter as you type: type part of a number ("504") or a name ("bearing"), then pick from the list that appears. The text you leave in the box must be one of the list's entries, or the form says "choose a part from the list".
Part numbers are category-stock-version — 902-000123-00 — and are structured data: the three pieces are stored separately and formatted per company. Stock numbers are allocated automatically within a category.
Nothing in the stock ledger is ever edited or deleted. A mistake is corrected by a new, opposite movement.