Materials to Bottleneck.
Seven steps, one loop.
The workflow isn't a metaphor, it's the literal sequence a small producer already runs in their head. Makeable just does the arithmetic and remembers it for next time.
Materials
List what you buy: eggs, flour, butter, cocoa. Whatever goes into your products.
Inventory
Record what's actually on the shelf right now, in the units you already use.
Recipe
Set how much of each material one unit of a product consumes, once, per product.
Capacity
Makeable divides stock by recipe for every material and takes the minimum. That's your ceiling.
Order
A customer asks for a quantity. Check it against capacity in the time it takes to type the number.
Bottleneck
If you're short, Makeable names exactly which material is holding you back, not just that you're short.
Required materials
The precise amount to buy to fill the gap: forty more eggs, one more kilo of butter.
A bakery, sixty eggs, one Tuesday morning.
On the shelf
- 60 eggs
- 8 kg flour
- 1.5 kg butter
Per cake
- 4 eggs
- 250 g flour
- 100 g butter
The order
25 cakes
Makeable's answer
15 possible, 10 short
Bottleneck: eggs and butter. Buy 40 more eggs and 1kg more butter to fulfill in full.
Not every manufacturer. Makers who work in batches, with recipes.
Bakeries & catering
Batch bakes and event orders where flour, eggs, and time all run out at different rates.
Small food producers
Jams, sauces, snacks: anything with a recipe and a shelf life.
Candle & soap makers
Wax, wicks, fragrance oil, jars. Four materials, one bottleneck at a time.
Craft & small-batch manufacturers
Anyone assembling a physical product from a fixed bill of materials, by hand or by hand-run machine.