Recipes & Bill of Materials

Define the materials and standard wastage needed to make one unit of a product, then reuse it for every production batch.

A Recipe (bill of materials, BOM) lists the materials needed to make one unit of a product. Production batches use it to fill in material quantities for the amount you plan to make. Recipes are available on the Growth plan and above.

What Is a Recipe?

  • Recipe name and an optional description
  • Finished good - the product the recipe makes
  • Ingredients - each material with the quantity needed per one unit of the finished good, and an optional standard wastage
A product can have more than one recipe, for example different formulations. You choose the recipe when you create a production batch.

Creating a Recipe

1

Go to Manufacturing → Recipes & BOM

Click "New Recipe".

2

Name it and choose the finished good

Use a name your team recognizes, such as "Standard batch".

3

Add ingredients

Click "Add Ingredient", choose a material and enter the quantity needed for one unit of the finished good.

4

Enter standard wastage (optional)

The material you normally lose per unit, for example trimming or spillage.

5

Click "Create Recipe"

The recipe can now be selected when creating a production batch.

Bill of Materials

When you choose a recipe in New production batch and enter the quantity to produce, IEMSuite multiplies each ingredient quantity and its standard wastage by that quantity. You then pick the lots to consume and can adjust quantities before saving.

Standard Wastage

Standard wastage is the expected loss per unit. It pre-fills the wastage on each material line of a batch; the actual wastage you record on the batch is what is stored as WASTAGE stock movements.

Multi-Step Production

If an ingredient is itself made in-house, give that semi-finished product its own recipe and produce it in a separate batch first. Its output lot is then available as a material for the next recipe, and its cost flows into the next batch.

Editing Recipes

Editing a recipe changes the formulation used for new batches. Existing batches retain their material quantities, but their displayed operator instructions use the current recipe steps. Completed batches keep the lots and quantities they actually consumed. Recipes have no version history; if you want to keep an old formulation, create a new recipe instead of editing the existing one.

Costing

A batch's cost comes from the lots it consumes, not from the recipe. See Cost Tracking & COGS.

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