Weird behavior with product levels

DIRECTIVE

Hi, we are using ATUM product levels. Products has parts and raws. For example:
1x DETAILER has:
1x bottle
1x spray
1x label
1x RAW

When we use the Inventory log for increase 1 DETAILER the levels of parts increase too (Reserved Stock and Current Stock). It is not make a sense for me. When I increase=produce 1 piece of DETAILER, stock have to decrease the parts nad RAW. Or how I can do it?

Can you help me with it?

japiera

Hi DIRECTIVE

Thanks for your post.

I think you misunderstood the Product Levels' behaviour.

Stock levels of products and their BOMs are linked. That means with your BOM configuration that if you increase the parent product's stock in 1, you'll have:

2x DETAILER consisting of:

2x bottle
2x spray
2x label
2x RAW

Increasing the quantity of a product doesn't mean that you have produced one and consumed its BOMs.

If you want to work with "produced" inventories and available BOMs you would need also the Multi Inventory plugin. You can read information about how they can work together here.

Best Regards,
José Andrés

DIRECTIVE

japiera Hi, thank you for the answer. But I did not find solution for my case as manufacturer. I can check supplies but I need to check how many pieces of goods I have manufactured on stock. Not just possible (calculated) but really. Can ATUM plug-ins help me with it. It is very important for me. Thank you.

japiera

Hi DIRECTIVE

Please accept my apologies for the late response. I didn't see your message, sorry.

If I understand your needs, They can be achieved with PL and Mi together.

Let me explain:

I've set up a Detailer product with the linked BOMs you described:

Each BOM has a stock quantity of 10, so the calculated stock for the Detailer product is also 10, and it's reflected in the Main Inventory.

That stock is the total available to produce in your case.

Now, we want to produce one Detailer. To do so, we'll discount one unit of each BOM because it will be consumed to create a final product. We can use Manufacturing Central to change the stock faster than doing it BOM by BOM.

The new Main Inventory stock will be 9, and we'll create a Secondary Inventory with the produced item.

You can set the inventories priority order to sell the stock in produced inventories and leave the available to the produce (Main) at the end of the stack.

As you can see, this process needs to be done manually at this moment, but we're working on a "Produce" tool to automatically take stock from BOMs and create/update inventories with the produced products.

Hope this helps,
José Andrés