Assemblified

Assemblified is production. It owns recipes, work orders and the decision to build. It does not walk around your building collecting parts — that is picking, and picking is Floormode’s.

The connection turns a build plan into warehouse work, and reports back what the warehouse actually managed to supply.

On this page

• Work orders become production picks
• What the picker sees
• What goes back to Assemblified
• When the plan changes or the build is cancelled
• Finished goods coming back
• What you can see about production
• See also

Work orders become production picks

When a work orderWork orderAn instruction to build something — the document in Assemblified that names what is being made, how many, and which components it consumes, and which asks Floormode to pick those components. Read more → in Assemblified is ready to build at a location Floormode picks for, it announces the components it needs. Those appear on the Floor home as a Production picks section, and open as a Production pick job.

The job names the work order and lists its materials, which come in three kinds:

Kind	On the floor
Ordinary stocked parts	Picked normally, pointed at the best bin holding stock
Sub-assemblies	Parts your production makes rather than buys. Real, binnable and pickable here — but they do not exist on Shopify and are never pushed to it
Non-stocked lines	Things on the recipe that never sit in a bin — a licence, an instruction. Shown so the plan reads completely, picked by nobody

Note

Quantities can be fractional. A recipe calling for 1.5 metres or 0.25 kg is a normal work order, not a rounding error, and the floor is asked for exactly that.

What the picker sees

Deliberately, the same loop as any other pick: scan the bin, scan the item, confirm the quantity. A picker who knows the ordinary pick knows this one.

Two things differ:

• Where it ends. Components go to a work-order staging binStaging binA bin holding goods marshalled for a next step — components waiting for a build, or parcels waiting for despatch — rather than stock available to pick. Read more → , not a pack bench. They are no longer freely available, but they have not shipped either — they are committed to a build that has not happened yet.
• What “short” means. If a component cannot be supplied, the picker records a shortage and it is reported to the work order. Nothing is silently re-allocated — the shortfall is production’s decision to make, not the warehouse’s.

The picker finishes with either “Components staged” or “Staged with shortages”, and in the second case is told how many lines were reported back.

What goes back to Assemblified

Progress, at the three moments that matter to somebody planning a build:

Report	Means
Picking	The floor has started on your work order
Staged	Everything requested is staged and ready to build
Short	The pick closed with lines that could not be supplied

This is what lets Assemblified stop a build run from starting before its parts are physically staged, rather than discovering it at the bench.

Caution

If the connection is switched off, the pick still works — but nobody is told. The goods are staged and the pick is recorded here, and Floormode says so plainly on the completion screen rather than pretending the message went out. See Parked and held.

When the plan changes or the build is cancelled

Both are handled, and both protect work already done:

• A revised plan reconciles the lines not yet picked against the new plan. Anything already picked and staged stays exactly as it is.
• A cancelled work order closes the pick batch and clears it off the floor, so nobody keeps collecting parts for a build that is not happening. Components already staged for it walk back to the bins they were picked from, on their own. Only when Floormode cannot tell where a unit came from — or the staging bin is missing — does the batch wait on the Production tab for a supervisor to resolve it, which returns the materials the same way.

Finished goods coming back

When a build completes, the finished goods come back to Floormode to be put away into real bins, arriving as a receipt whose Source reads “Assemblified work order”. They are put away like any other goods, and from that moment they are ordinary pickable stock.

The interesting question is who tells Shopify about them, and the answer depends on the kind of bundle — Assemblified says which on every batch, so the two apps never both write and never both stand down. The receipt itself tells you which happened, in plain words:

Assemblified owns the Shopify write — putaway does not push.

or

Assemblified deferred the Shopify write to Floormode — putaway pushes these units.

Who writes Shopify has the full split per bundle type.

Once the goods are in bins, Floormode reports back what was put away, so Assemblified’s picture of finished stock matches your shelves.

What you can see about production

The Production tab under Fulfillment shows a pipeline with one row per work order, tracking it across the stages the warehouse can witness: announced, picking, staged, in production, awaiting putaway, and put away. The stage is derived from the freshest evidence Floormode has — the announcement, the pick’s own progress, and the finished goods arriving — so a delayed status message never moves a work order backwards on screen.

Assemblified remains the home of the build itself: recipes, scheduling, and the detailed production status live there, and every pipeline row links across for that view. What you get in Floormode is the warehouse half, complete: what has been asked of the floor, what the floor has staged, what it could not supply, and what has come back.

See also

• Production pick — the floor job in detail.
• Bundles and kits — the other half of Assemblified’s recipes, on customer orders.
• Holds — the “Waiting for production” reason.
• Bins — the staging bin type.

Last updated: 23 October 2026