Recipe outputs, materials, leftover handling and substitutes

For a recipe's outputs you set the quantity and the allowed yield variance; for its materials the quantity, unit, leftover handling and substitute products. Open the recipe and click Edit Recipe to change them.

Outputs

A recipe can produce several finished products. For each you set the quantity per batch. In Yield tolerance you enter, as a percentage, how much difference between planned and actually produced quantity is acceptable. When completing production and on the order page, differences beyond this are highlighted.

Materials

For each material you set the quantity per batch, the unit and a note. You can also add a service (for example subcontracted work): it counts towards the cost but is not taken from stock.

Leftover handling decides what happens when less of a material is used than planned:

• Reusable – the leftover goes back to stock.
• Scrap – the leftover does not go back to stock.
• Decide per order – you decide when completing production whether the leftover goes back to stock. The Default: leftover returns to stock checkbox sets what is preselected.

Substitutes

With Add substitute you can assign one or more substitute products to a material:

• Ratio – how much substitute replaces the original quantity. For example, 1.2 means 20% more substitute is needed.
• Priority – the order: lower numbers come first.

If there is not enough of the original material when production starts, the system offers the first substitute that has enough stock. It only offers substitutes with the same unit as the original, of the same kind (service or product), and with the same batch-tracking setting.