Create job card without work order

ERPNext Manufacturing
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is it possible to create Job cards without creating work orders?

Generally our BOM is not well defined. So it becomes difficult to create a work order with a BOM. What we want to do it directly create Job Cards and then keep tracking the work done by each employee, operation and workstation with raw material used and scrap generated. I see that we can record everything in the job card itself. Then we want to directly link this job card to the sales order and item.

Is it possible to achieve such a setup?

When I search on the google with the phrase “erpnext create job card without work order”, the AI generated text explains it as if the feature exsists in the system. But when I search for this in the documentation or the forum, I am unable to find anything related to this.

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Have you considered using the Projects module instead of manufacturing?
You can keep track of time and materials per project and create
invoices based on such.

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Thanks for replying volkswagner. First I tried to do exactly that, but then I cannot track operations and workstation times.

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The beauty of ERPNext and Frappe Framework allows you to customize by creating a custom app.
If you’d like to pick and choose which docs are required and/or linked to each other you can do so.

Perhaps create a custom app that allows you to choose a project or work order when creating a job card. Then you can associate job cards with projects.

Alternatively you can create a custom doctype that mimics Work Order but remove the BOM requirements.