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SeroPOS back office help: Manufacturing

Manufacturing lets you build recipes and bills of materials for the items you make. Recording a production run updates stock and cost, and the manufacturing report shows what was made and what it cost.

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Build a recipe in SeroPOSBuild a recipe, or bill of materials, at Manufacturing › Recipe (/manufacturing/recipe). Choose the product the recipe makes, add its ingredients with quantities and units, and set the wastage percent, any extra production cost and the total output quantity. SeroPOS works out the ingredient cost and the cost per unit from your ingredients' purchase prices. To save time, start from Copy from recipe and change only what differs.Record a production run in SeroPOSRecord a production run at Manufacturing › Production (/manufacturing/production). Pick the location, the product and the manufacturing date, and SeroPOS pulls in the ingredients from that product's recipe. Adjust quantities if the batch differs, enter any wasted quantity, and tick Finalize. Finalized production takes the ingredients out of stock, adds the finished goods to stock and records the production cost per unit.Update product prices from recipe costs in SeroPOSWhen ingredient costs change, update your products' cost from their recipes in one step. On the Manufacturing › Recipe list, tick one or more recipes and click Update product price. SeroPOS sets each product's purchase price to its recipe's current unit cost, worked out from the latest ingredient purchase costs. Your selling prices are not changed, so you can then review margins and adjust prices yourself.Read the manufacturing report in SeroPOSOpen Manufacturing › Manufacturing Report (/manufacturing/report) to see what you've produced and what it cost. Pick a location and a date range to get the total production, the total production cost and the current stock of your manufactured products, meaning the stock left from what you've made.Choose manufacturing settings in SeroPOSManufacturing › Settings (/manufacturing/settings) controls how production behaves. Set the Production Ref No. prefix for new runs, choose whether staff can edit ingredient quantities when recording production, and decide whether finalizing a run updates the product's purchase price from its production cost.