Making products from components

If you turn raw materials or parts into a finished product, such as candles made from wax, wicks and jars, Skuvelo keeps a recipe for it on Inventory → Things you make. Unlike a bundle, a made item holds its own stock: recording a build takes the components off the shelf and puts the finished units on it in one step.

Write a recipe

On Inventory → Things you make, choose What it makes, set Type to Made item, and enter how many units One batch makes. Under Ingredients per batch, use Add ingredient for each component and its quantity. You can also enter:

• Waste % for a component you usually lose some of, up to 50%.
• Making cost per batch, such as labour, added to the finished item's cost. Setting it needs permission to see costs.
• Days to make or finish, used when planning when components must arrive.

Then choose Save recipe. Editing recipes needs permission to manage the catalog. If someone else changed the recipe after you opened it, Skuvelo asks you to reload rather than overwrite their change. Once you have recorded some builds, the recipe may suggest a waste figure from what those builds actually used; choose Use beside it to accept it.

See what you can make

Each recipe shows what the shelf can make right now at a location. It counts sellable stock of each component, less what orders have already claimed. Quarantined or damaged stock is not counted. Type a number in To make to see what you still need to get in for that many.

Record a build or production run

Under Record a build, choose What did you make?, Where?, and How many did you make?, then choose Record. The components used come from the recipe. If some were spoiled or you used more or less than the recipe, open Anything spoiled or used extra? and change only those amounts. Recording needs permission to manage inventory or receive stock.

A build posts straight away; nothing is scheduled. It is never refused for lack of stock. If the shelf did not show enough of a component, the build still posts, is marked short, and the Action Center asks someone to receive or count the missing units.

Recent builds are listed under Recent builds. Undo build takes a build back exactly: the finished units leave and every component returns at the cost it left at.

Sending items to a printer or framer

If an outside business finishes your items, add it on Locations as a Printer / framer location, with its supplier and Usual return time (days). Send the blank items there as a transfer linked to a purchase order with a service line for the work. When the finished items come back, record a build at that location and choose the confirmed Printer / framer service line. The service charge, and that line's share of the order's freight, duty and other charges, are added to the finished items' cost. Items the processor spoils are a quality claim against them, so a recipe for processed items keeps its waste at 0%.

How planning orders your components

When Skuvelo plans a finished item, it works out what each component is needed for, including recipes several levels deep, and adds that demand to the component's own sales. The order-by date for a component allows for its supplier's lead time and the recipe's days to make, so suggested orders for raw materials arrive in time for the run.

What Skuvelo does not do

There are no work orders, production schedules or machine and labour routings. A build is recorded when the work is done, not planned ahead as a job.