Share one production recipe across many products

One recipe can serve hundreds of products. When a range of products takes the same materials and differs only in its design, those products share one recipe, and you keep one list up to date instead of hundreds.

A production order uses each line's recipe to work out what material to buy and what a batch should consume. A product with no recipe has no material plan and can't be costed from one.

This page covers:

• Write the recipe once
• Point the other products at it
• What changing a shared recipe does

Write the recipe once

1. Go to Production → Recipes and click + New recipe.
2. Pick one product that is made the way you are describing.
3. Add each material one finished unit uses, with the quantity per unit and any wastage. Then save.

Point the other products at it

1. On the recipe page, find the Used by card and click Assign to SKUs.
2. Search for the products that are made the same way:
   • SKU starts with: the code the range shares, for example SKU- for SKU-001, SKU-002 and so on.
   • Leave out SKUs containing: codes that match the start but aren't produced this way, such as seconds or display samples. Separate several with commas.
   • Type stays on Physical. Assembled products are built from other products, so they don't take a production recipe of their own.
3. Check the list. Untick anything that is made differently.
4. Click Assign.

A product that already uses a different recipe starts unticked, so a product made in another size is never moved onto the wrong recipe unless you tick it on purpose. Each product uses one recipe at a time.

Products in different sizes usually take different quantities of material, so give each size its own recipe.

What changing a shared recipe does

The recipe is one list that many products point at. Open it from any of them and you are editing the same list:

• Saving changes it for every product in Used by.
• Deleting it leaves every one of those products with no recipe, not only the one you opened it from.

Production orders that already used the recipe keep their purchase orders and stock movements. A change only affects orders worked out after it.