There's a gap between "we have a production module" and "we actually know what our products cost." Closing that gap requires the system to track material consumption, labor, machine time, subcontracting, and overhead — and tie them all to specific production orders. Here's how 1C:Drive does it.

Where to Start: Simple vs. Full Production

The system doesn't force you into a complex setup from day one.

For a simple assembly process — you take N components and combine them into one finished product — you just need a Bill of Materials (BOM) with a process type set to "Assembly." No work centers, no operations. The BOM says what goes in; the production document records what came out.

For full manufacturing with multiple stages, multiple departments, and tracked labor and machine time, you build out a more complete structure: work centers within departments, work schedules (how many hours is each machine available per week?), and production operations with time and workload parameters. Then in the BOM, you sequence the operations and match each material to the operation that consumes it.

The key question to ask before setup: do you need to track overheads and allocate them to product costs? If yes, you need the full setup. If you're just tracking materials in and products out, the simple assembly approach works fine.

Make-to-Order vs. Make-to-Stock

These two production strategies work differently in the system, and it's worth understanding the distinction.

Make-to-stock is mass production. You're not tracking which customer will receive which unit. One production order can cover a whole month's output. Sales and purchases don't need to reference specific orders.

Make-to-order is individual production. Every document in the chain is linked — sales order, production order, subcontractor order, purchase order. If a customer orders a table, you can trace every component through every document, see what was reserved, what was bought, what was produced, and what it ultimately cost. Full traceability of one specific sales order.

For make-to-order manufacturing, this chain tracking isn't optional — it's the core requirement.

Bills of Materials: More Than a Component List

A BOM in 1C:Drive does more than list ingredients. It also defines:

• Operations — the sequence of manufacturing steps, each with a work center, time estimate, and workload

• Material assignments — which materials are consumed at which operation

• Calculation methods — how material quantities relate to output quantity

There are three calculation methods: Proportional (material consumption scales linearly with output quantity), Multiple (consumption is a multiple of some parameter), and Fixed (same quantity regardless of how many units you produce). Using the wrong method causes inaccurate cost calculations, so this is worth getting right during setup.

BOMs support multiple nesting levels — semi-finished products that are themselves assembled from components, which might include other semi-finished products. The system handles explosion across all levels for both production planning and cost calculation.

Production Tasks and Shop Floor Reality

At the operational level, production in 1C:Drive splits into work orders (the overall production job) and production tasks (specific operations assigned to people or teams).

Production tasks can be split across multiple assignees or teams. You can track scheduled vs. actual time for each operation. There's a mobile interface for shop floor workers to update task statuses, record actual completion times, and see what they're supposed to be working on without needing access to a desktop.

This matters for cost calculation: if you're allocating overhead by labor hours or machine hours, you need actual time data, not just scheduled time.

How Costs Flow Through the System

Production costs in 1C:Drive fall into two categories:

Direct costs are traced directly to production orders:

• Component costs (from goods issues to work-in-progress)

• Labor costs (from payroll)

• Subcontractor costs (from subcontractor invoices)

Indirect costs (manufacturing overheads) are allocated using predetermined rates. This is where many systems oversimplify, and where 1C:Drive offers genuine flexibility.

You set up cost pools (groups of overhead costs that share a common cause) and cost drivers (the metric used to allocate — labor hours, machine hours, or volume of output). Then you define an allocation rate: planned overhead cost divided by planned labor hours (or machine hours) for the period.

You can use a single rate across the entire company (plantwide allocation) or separate rates per department (departmental allocation). Departmental rates are more accurate when different departments have very different cost structures — a high-automation machining department vs. a manual assembly line, for example.

Month-End Closing: Where Numbers Get Final

Throughout the month, products are costed at standard (planned) rates. At month-end, 1C:Drive calculates actual indirect costs and compares them to what was allocated at the standard rate.

If actual overhead was higher than allocated (underallocated), you either write the difference to cost of goods sold, or apply an adjusted rate that recalculates the cost of all work-in-progress and finished goods in that period.

This isn't optional — without month-end closing, your product costs are estimates, not actuals. The system runs the closing process and posts all the adjustments automatically, but someone needs to trigger it and verify the results.

Subcontracting

Sometimes you don't have the capacity or capability to produce something in-house. 1C:Drive handles subcontracting as part of the production process: you issue materials to the subcontractor, they return finished or semi-finished goods, you receive their invoice. All of this is tracked at the order level, so you can see the cost of subcontracted work alongside your in-house production costs.

What You Can Report On

The production module includes 20+ standard reports. The practically useful ones are production schedules, work center availability (what's booked vs. what's free), cost of goods produced broken down by cost type, and plan-vs-actual for material consumption and labor time.

All reports support drill-down — if a number looks wrong, you can click through to the source documents.