Having a Manager noble assigned allows you to create jobs, which obviously saves time in finding the appropriate workshop.
However, there appears to be a maximum of thirty items in a single "job/order", is there any way around this? Aside from the obvious of just ordering multiple times?
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EDIT: As of a recent update (0.43.04) the hard limit of 30 items has been removed entirely.
Currently, no -- the 30 unit maximum seems to have been hardcoded, fairly arbitrarily.
As to why, you'd probably have to ask on the Bay 12 forums -- Toady is generally pretty good at communicating with his players.