Once a Bill of Materials is set up, Tightly uses your sales data to recommend when you need to produce more stock. Instead of creating orders manually based on guesses, you can draft them directly from these recommendations.
Location: Navigate to Replenishment → Smart Replenishment.
1. Finding Recommendations & Drafting the Order
When a manufacturable product is running low on stock, it will appear in your Smart Replenishment list just like any other product.
On each recommendation row, you'll see a Replenishment Method field that points the recommended replenishment method. For the recommendations that's being recommended for Manufacturing, you'll see Manufacturing Order in that field.
Select these rows and click Draft Manufacturing Order button in the quick actions bar. This action converts the selected manufacturing recommendations into drafted manufacturing orders.
Draft Status means: The order is saved, but Tightly does not yet count this as incoming supply. No raw materials have been reserved yet.
3. Aligning with Batch Size
Production usually happens in specific batch sizes (defined in your BoM). The recommended demand might not match your batch size perfectly.
Example: Demand is for 37 units, but your Batch Size is 10.
Tightly will verify if the quantity fits your batch settings.
If they do not match, you will see a prompt to round the quantity on your Manufacturing Order page. In this example, you would adjust the order to 40 units (4 batches of 10).
4. Confirming the Order
Once the quantity is aligned:
Review to make sure everything looks right to you. You cannot edit the MO quantity after you confirm the MO, you have to cancel the MO otherwise.
Click Confirm on the order timeline.
What Happens Next?
The status changes to Confirmed.
Tightly now considers this order as Incoming Supply, so Smart Replenishment will stop alerting you about low stock for this product.
The system calculates exactly which raw materials are required for this specific quantity.
Next Step: You are now ready to Allocate Raw Materials & Handle Shortages.