Handling external manufacturing steps

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

Some steps in your manufacturing process may be completed by an external service rather than in-house. A common example is sending leather straps out to be embossed - the straps leave your inventory, are worked on by another company, and then return to you ready to use as part of your finished products.

The best way to handle this process in Craftybase is by using components.

Example: Embossed Leather Straps

Using the example above, fully accounting for this process can be done like this:

Create a material for the non-embossed leather strap (How can I create a material?)
Create a component that will represent the embossed leather strap, when creating its recipe, include the non-embossed leather strap.
When you receive the embossed leather strap back from the external service, create a manufacture for the component.

This will increase the stock for the embossed strap
...and decrease the stock of the original non-embossed strap

Costs charged by the external service (e.g. embossing, electroplating, engraving) aren't included automatically in this workflow. Since you're converting one material into another using a manufacture, the unit cost of the new component will remain the same as the original material.

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Still have questions about accounting for external manufacturing steps within Craftybase? Please get in touch, and we'll be happy to help.