I'm a noob, with a manufacturing mission to get lots of trade goods and ores. Is there an easier way to find what station sells these trade goods without just jumping around all over the place?

I mean where to find which particular trade good

Most people dont want to crash there trade route, best to join a guild and gain some trust and ask them.

Okay, thanks

There are two plugins that come to mind. Catalog and Trade assist, but you'll still have to fly to stations for it to log the inventory. They can be found at voupr.spenced.com . Also, usually the latos stations have everything.

Trade Assist has a much better UI and is less spammy. Also less complicated to use. One point where Catalog has an advantage is that it displays some stats of targetted items as well, which TA doesn't. But that's more useful for a pirate than a manufacturer I think. Regardless, with both plugins you still have to gather your own info on goods and prices. So there's going to be some jumping around all over the place involved.