A base product is the item that must be made to produce the sell-by unit. So if you sell multigrain bread sliced in a variety of ways, your unsliced loaf would be the base product. Or, if you sell a cupcakes in single, 4-, 6- and 12-packs, the base product would be a single cupcake.
Setting up your products this way allows FlexiBake to streamline the production process for you by focusing on the base product until it is processed into the different sell-by units. Taking again the example of multigrain bread, it is more efficient to make all the dough at once, bake all the loaves together, then slice them in the various ways required, rather than making a batch separately for each slicing variety.
When using Base Products, we suggest trying the Base Product on Order, or Base Product by Route reports which display the total number of base product required per day/route to meet order requirements.
To set a the base product for a sell-by unit:
- Access the Inventory Centre then click the Maintain Products button.
- Find the product entry corresponding to the sell-by unit and double click on it to open or click on it once and click Edit at the bottom of the screen.
- In the field beside where it says Pack Size enter in how many units are in the sell by unit. (eg. For a 4-pack you would enter 4.)
- Click on the Production Tab of the product.
- From the Base Product drop-down select the unit that must be produced to make this product.
- If the sell-by item is a sliced item, slicing instruction can be added from the Slicing Instr. drop-down
- Click OK to save.