Can I track what batch of material in BOM used in specific product?

sean

Hi, Im trying Multi inventory and Product Levels at the same time in a food factory.
Is there a way for me to assign which raw material inventory to use in the BOM to make the product?
Ex: Batch1 of product A is made of Batch 2 material B and Batch 3 material C.
The preferred way is when adding inventory of product A, can select which batch of materials to use and then deduct the quantity at the same time as the product A inventory is added.

Salva

Hi sean

You can choose the inventory to use but directly from the order.
If you add any product with linked BOMs to an order, you should see the BOM tree below the item. And also, the inventories to be used (if the BOM has MI enabled). If you click the BOM item from the tree, a modal will show up to be able to select the inventories and quantities when deducting the stocks.

I hope this helps.

Best Regards,
Salva.

sean

Hi, Thank you for the swift reply.

As you suggest in the example above, I can choose which inventory to use in the BOM, but here comes another question. It let me choose the inventory of the lowest level of BOM(HopsA and B_wheat). But I have many batches of "velvetDelight_full_tank" and I can not choose those as well. In the production process, we made "velvetDelight_full_tank" first as a semi-product, so we only need to choose which batch of "velvetDelight_full_tank" then can link to lower-level material already.

Salva

Hi sean

I'm sorry but it's only possible to select the inventories to use on the last levels of the BOM tree for now.
As you can read here, the only inventory that is used when any product has linked BOMs and MI enabled at the same time, it's the "Main Inventory".

sean

Noted, thank you, I`ll see how I can make use of it.
Another question is when I create a product and linked BOM materials.
The quantity of product did not calculated automatically from the material stock.
I have to manually input the quantity then will see in manufacturing central showing the "commit" quantity of material.
As in the attached picture, the stock quantity of product is 0, despite there being enough material in stock.

Salva

Hi sean

For automatic stock calculation, you must enable the "BOM Stock Control" option.
I'd recommend you read the documentation:
https://stockmanagementlabs.crunch.help/en/atum-product-levels#bom-stock-control

Best Regards,
Salva.

sean

Thank you very much for the info, it works perfectly now.
One more question, what is the purpose of inventory Logs? it can record material and manually increase/decrease inventory through the button, but the inventory log list provides no info regarding either qty or increase/decrease of material unless click a specific log and see from the log note. Is there a way to show the increase/decrease of inventory stock for each inventory log in a list?

japiera

Hi sean ,

You can read what the purpose is here.

Unfortunately, there is no way to include inventory changes in a list.

You could use the ATUM Action Logs addon to track changes and export the Logs using ATUM Export Pro. That would allow you to exploit data using Spreadsheet Software.

Best Regards,
José Andrés