The Inventory provides information on inventory items and raw materials that will result from disassembly of the finished goods.

Generally, the tab is automatically populated from the finished goods's disassembly specifications. However, you can add or remove specific items to or from the list.

The "Production Order (create)" form. The Inventory tab

To add an inventory item, click the Add or Pick button (refer to Using the pick operation). In the Item column, select an item from the Items list or create a new item. For more details, refer to Items. Alternatively, you can import the list of items with all the details from an Excel document. For this, click the  button on the table toolbar and follow the step-by-step instructions in the appeared window. The imported list can be edited in the Administration module.

You can use the Up and Down (  ) arrows to rearrange the items in the list.

The Characteristic column is available if the Enable Item Characteristics option is selected on the Administration > Settings > Purchasing and Warehouses form. In this column, you can specify additional properties of each item if the Use Characteristics option is selected for the item in its master record (see Items).

In the Quantity column, you can specify the item quantity and in the Unit column, you can select an UOM for the item if the Multiple UOMs per Item option is selected on the Administration > Settings > Purchasing and Warehouses form.

The Cost Percentage column shows the proportion in which the cost of finished goods is shifted to the resulting items.

The Specification column is populated automatically with the default specification assigned to the items that are requiring additional disassembly.

The tab toolbar buttons

Click the Fill by Specification button to populate the inventory Items list with items and raw materials listed in the specifications of the finished goods to be produced in the quantities required by specifications.

For other button descriptions, see Document Toolbar.