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Because the quote is priced from a standard cost set months ago. Component prices have moved, the standard has not, and the margin on the order is fiction from the moment it is accepted.
Then the order is re-entered into production and again into accounts, each time an opportunity to lose a line or a discount.
Quotes price from the catalogue and the bill of materials in Books, so the margin shown is against real component cost rather than a stale standard.
An accepted quote becomes a sales order that reserves stock and drives the delivery challan and the invoice from the same lines.
It will not schedule production. It reserves stock and records the commitment; sequencing the floor is a different job.
It also will not forecast component prices.
The order production works to is the order that was sold, including its dates and its exclusions.
Margin per order is real, so the pattern across a product line — where discounting has quietly outrun cost — becomes visible.
Products, not integrations. Each one reads the same record, so a join is a permission rather than a sync job with a mapping screen behind it.
Yes, availability by location from Books.
Yes, priced at current component cost.
The order tracks the balance and the reservation.
Half an hour on your own numbers is usually enough to say whether Flow is the right place to start.