Downstream (manufacturing)
Term in manufacturing
title: "Downstream (manufacturing)" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["manufacturing"] description: "Term in manufacturing" topic_path: "general/manufacturing" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downstream_(manufacturing)" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Term in manufacturing ::
Downstream, in manufacturing, refers to processes which occur later on in a production sequence or production line.
Viewing a company "from order to cash" might have high-level processes such as marketing, sales, order entry, manufacturing, packaging, shipping, and invoicing. Each of these could be deconstructed into many sub-processes and supporting processes.
The manufacturing process consists of such sub-processes as design, tooling, inventory management, receiving, assembly, and so on. The products being manufactured are created in a sequence of processes: any process occurring after another is considered to be "downstream".
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