If you have different costs for raw materials and make costs from sampling to production, you might want to separate sample production from bulk production into separate seasons.
If you have inventory, it is essential to separate the sampling season from the production season to ensure you have an accurate product stock and raw material stock for your raw material sampling orders before you start bulk production.
Inventory Module is an optional add-on. For more details contact us at HELLO ZEDONK.
Create a new Season for Sampling
For more information on how to create a new season, review the Create a New Season lesson.
Run through usual processes to create Products
You can add multiple manufacturers for each Product. You may use a different manufacturer for sampling or have higher sampling costs in your production factory.
Create Product Costings via bulk import or single entry.
We have assigned two manufacturers to our sample product
You have to assign one manufacturer to create the product and the second one can be added at any stage.
- Select the Manufacturer
- First Cost/Make Price for making samples - goes to costing and production order
- Lead time for making samples
- Notes re Minimums for this manufacturer
- Internal comments - only for this product/manufacturer
You can add the production manufacturer with production price which can be useful for checking projected wholesale prices/margins etc.
The manufacturer ticked as default will be the one on any production orders you've created
You can switch between manufacturers/make prices on the costs page to check overall costs/margins for your bulk. When switching manufacturers, all historical data will be replaced with the details of the manufacturer selected as default.
To prevent this, we recommend you use the Product Versioning feature as each product version will retain the manufacturer's details.
Raise Production Order from Production Book Out/Book In for your samples
For more detailed information on raising a Production Order from Product Book Out / Book In
- Add products to the Production Order
- Add quantities
- Enter the delivery windows for each product line
Book In Production Order once samples are received
For detailed information about Book In when Received - read this.
From Production Order click on the Pending button.
Click on the Book In tab, then click on the '+Add' button.
Populate with what you have received
- Auto-populate quantities for the whole production order
- Auto-populate quantities for the single product line
- Manually populate quantities
Samples quantities will display in the 'Received' column in the Product Stock Inventory module.