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Managing production orders with AI: a complete guide

Last updated: February 28, 2026

For manufacturing companies, Ledger Botje is particularly powerful. You can manage the entire production process via your AI assistant — from looking up shop orders to completion reports and time registration. New to MCP? Read what MCP is and how it works first.

Looking up shop orders

Simply ask: "Which production orders are open?" or "What is the status of shop order WO-2026-0042?" Ledger Botje shows all details including the bill of materials, planned quantities and progress.

Viewing bills of material

Before you start production, you may want to check the BOM: "Show the bill of materials for item FP-100." You'll see all required materials, quantities and available stock.

Issuing materials

During production, you issue materials to the shop order: "Issue 50 units of item RM-200 to shop order WO-2026-0042." The stock is immediately reduced in Exact Online.

Made a mistake? No problem: "Reverse the material issue of RM-200 on shop order WO-2026-0042."

Reporting completion

When production is complete: "Report 100 units as finished on shop order WO-2026-0042." The produced items are added to inventory.

Routing steps and time registration

Do you work with routing steps (operations)? Ask: "Show the routing steps of shop order WO-2026-0042." You'll see all steps with their planned and actual times.

Time registration is also possible: "Register 2.5 hours on operation step 10 of shop order WO-2026-0042."

By-products

Does your production process yield by-products? Report them: "Receive 20 units of by-product BP-050 on shop order WO-2026-0042."

Assembly orders

In addition to production orders, Ledger Botje also supports assembly orders. Search them with "Show all open assembly orders" and finish them with "Finish assembly order AO-2026-0015 with 25 units."

Find more production prompts in the prompt library. Also read how to check stock levels and create orders via your AI assistant.

LB
Ledger Botje Team
The Ledger Botje team writes about AI, MCP and Exact Online. We help businesses manage their administration smarter with AI assistants.

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