Manufactured Items come in many different forms – but the underlying nature of a Manufactured Item is similar from one business to the next. That is, we take some raw materials and assemble them to produce a new product, which itself becomes a stocked Item with a value associated to it.
This article contains an introduction to working with Manufactured Items.
Activating the Manufacturing features
To get started, you must first ensure that the Manufacturing features have been made available on your system. If not, this can be switched on via Administration | System | System Defaults – select the Inventory tab and tick the “Use Manufacturing” checkbox.
An additional tab will now be available on the Edit Stock Items screen (via Administration | Stock). This tab is captioned BOM (for Bill of Materials) and will appear whenever you select a Manufactured Item from the stock list.
Setting up a Manufactured Item
Before creating a Manufactured Item, the components that will make up the Manufactured Item will first need to exist as normal Stock Items. Once these Items have been created, we are ready to setup our Manufactured Item.
Create a new Stock Item, ensuring that you select Manufactured as the Item Type in the Create New Product wizard.
Navigate to the BOM tab. From here, add the individual Stock Items that make up the Manufactured Item. For each component, you must specify the quantity that is required to build one unit of the Manufactured Item.
This now becomes the standard recipe for building this Manufactured Item. Note that the component list may be customised “on the fly” during the manufacturing process.
Learn More
To read the full KB article on Manufacturing, go to our Client Portal.
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