Production: material check and shortages

On the production order page, Check stock in the Stock Check section tells you whether there is enough material. The system works out the requirement from the recipe and the batch multiplier, compares it with free stock and, if something is short, suggests a substitute product or producing a sub-recipe.

What the system calculates:

• Only physical products count; service items are skipped.
• It uses stock in the production order's Source warehouse, or the Target warehouse if no source is set.
• Available means stock minus the reserved quantity.
• The Missing materials list shows the required, available and missing quantity per product.

Suggestions:

• Substitute product – if the recipe has substitutes, the system checks them in the order given: same unit, same type (physical or service), same batch tracking, and enough stock. If one fits, you can choose the swap when you start production.
• Sub-recipe – if the missing product is the output of an active recipe, the system also suggests the batch multiplier to produce it with.

Resolve Shortages: for each missing item you choose Produce (a new production order from the sub-recipe), Purchase (a purchase order is created) or Manual (you handle it yourself).