Handling external manufacturing steps

Learn how to use components to manage and track external manufacturing stages.

Some steps in your manufacturing process may involve external services.

An example of this would be electroplating, where an item in your inventory is sent to another company to transform it into an electroplated version. The item is then returned to you for use as a material in your own products.

The best way to handle this situation is to use components.

Using the scenario above, to create a manufacturing flow in Craftybase, you'll need to have a material for the non-electroplated item. This should be added the usual way (via a purchase or a starting adjustment).

Next, you'll want to create a component representing the electroplated material. This component will have a recipe containing the non-electroplated item.

When you receive your electroplated item back, you'll manufacture the component, which will increase the stock on hand of the electroplated item and decrease the stock on hand of the non-electroplated item.

Any internal labor time you spent on this step can be incorporated into the component manufacture if required.