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The Inventory tab provides information on inventory items or raw materials used in production of the specified quantity of the finished goods in addition to specification specifications and how they are distributed over the listed finished goods.

Generally, the tab is filled out manually with by listing the indirect material costs (tools, raw materials, or other items) that were used in production in addition to materials listed in the specification . Also, you can populate the list from the specifications if you need to change the quantities of materials used for manufacturing (in this case, you need to list only the excessive quantities). To populate the list from the finished goods specifications, click Fill > By Standards.and by distributing their costs to the costs of finished goods items. 

The tab includes the following two panes:

• The Inventory Items pane: It contains a list of inventory items used in the manufacturing process in addition to those items listed in specifications, for instance, tools or raw materials. Such items are recorded to the Work-in-Progress account.  You can populate the list from the specifications by clicking Fill > By Standards if you need to change the quantities of materials used for manufacturing (in this case, you need to list only the excessive quantities). 
• The Inventory Distribution pane: It lists the items resulted from manufacturing (from both the Assembly and Disassembly transaction types). Click the Distribute > By Quantity to distribute the inventory items (tools, raw materials) by quantity of finished goods.

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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 Image Removed 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.

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Click the Fill button to populate the inventory Items list with items or raw materials listed in the specifications of the finished goods . You can select one of the following options:

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