Setting up a product you make

The raw material, the finished product, the recipe that says what goes into one unit, the work centre and the routing — then a production run that proves it.

38 steps

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The whole walkthrough, no narration — the captions are on the screen.

Step by step

1 · The raw material
Everything you buy or make is an item. Start with what goes IN.
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Press New item
Inventory holds one catalogue: raw materials, finished goods, everything.
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Name it and give it a code
"TRN Rock wool slab 100mm", code TRN-RM-WOOL. The code is what a supplier price list matches on.
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What you count it in
Square metres for a slab. Each material keeps its own unit — nobody converts by hand.
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What it costs you
180 EGP per m². This is the figure the finished product's cost is built from.
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Tell it when to reorder
Below 400 m² it appears on the reorder report, so purchasing buys before the line stops.
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Save the material
2 · The finished product
The thing you sell. Same screen — what makes it different is the recipe you give it next.
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Press New item again
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Name, code and sale price
"TRN Sandwich panel 80mm" at 640 EGP. The sale price is what a quotation suggests; the rep can still negotiate.
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Save the product
Leave the cost blank — it will be worked out from the recipe.
3 · The recipe
What goes into ONE finished unit. This is the answer to "how do I build one product from three materials".
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Open the Kit / bundle tab
Every manufactured product has one. It is where its materials live.
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Press Make this a kit
From now on this is something you BUILD, not only something you buy.
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Component 1: choose the material
"TRN Rock wool slab 100mm" — from the same catalogue purchasing buys against.
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How much goes into ONE finished unit
2.4 — never the quantity for the whole order. The work order multiplies it.
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Press Add
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Component 2: choose the material
"MDI isocyanate" — from the same catalogue purchasing buys against.
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How much goes into ONE finished unit
1.2 — never the quantity for the whole order. The work order multiplies it.
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Press Add
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Component 3: choose the material
"Aluminium facing foil" — from the same catalogue purchasing buys against.
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How much goes into ONE finished unit
2.3 — never the quantity for the whole order. The work order multiplies it.
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Press Add
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Three materials, one product
Quantity per unit, stock on hand, and how many you could build right now — all from the recipe.
4 · How it is made
A work centre is a machine or a bench with an hourly cost. The routing is the steps a panel goes through.
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Press New work centre
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Name it and set its hourly cost
320 EGP an hour. Every minute a work order spends here is charged to the job at this rate.
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Save the work centre
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Back to the product's Routing
Under the recipe there is a Routing card — the steps every work order starts with.
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Press Add step
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The step, where it happens, how long
Foaming and pressing: 30 minutes to set the line up, then 4 minutes a panel.
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Save the step
5 · Check it before you rely on it
Bills of materials lists every product you make, what it costs to build one, and how many you could build now.
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The product is in the list
Cost to build one comes from the materials — you never type it.
6 · Put the new material on the shelf
A brand-new material has no stock, so nothing can be built yet. Normally it arrives on a purchase order; the opening balance is entered once, by hand.
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Press Adjust on the material's row
Adjust is for an opening balance or a stock count — never for a delivery you should record properly.
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How much, and why
600 m² as the opening balance. The reason is kept with the movement, so shrinkage can be reported later.
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Save the adjustment
7 · Build some and watch the stock move
The proof: a work order takes the three materials out and puts finished panels in.
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Press New work order
This is also what a confirmed sales order raises for you automatically.
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Which product, how many, from which store
100 panels. Notice you pick ONE product — the materials come from its recipe.
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Press Create
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Start — take the components
240 m² of wool, 120 kg of MDI, 230 m² of foil leave the store: 100 × the recipe. Short of anything and it refuses, naming what is missing.
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Complete when the panels are made
100 finished panels enter stock, carrying what they actually cost to make.
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The stock moved by itself
Materials down, finished panels up — every movement kept, with the work order that caused it.