Create variant-specific product recipes, simplifying custom product features such as size and color. This functionality enables more efficient production setups by allowing the assignment of different ingredients or materials to specific product variants within the same product card, streamlining setup and updates.
Each variant of a product can have a product recipe created for it. This article focuses on how to create variant-specific recipes. If you're unfamiliar with variants, check out what are variants and how to set up variants.
Note: If the option to create/edit a product recipe isn't available, take a look at this article regarding user permissions.
Using the variants feature together with a variant-specific product recipe setup is more powerful than creating separate product cards and separate recipes for each variant as this makes:
Initial setup of variants and recipes easier
Changes to recipes faster and more convenient. If you need to replace an ingredient that is used for all product variants, you can change it with a few clicks on a single product card rather than replacing the same ingredient for each variant separately on individual item cards.
If you enable variants for a product in the General info tab of a product card, you can enter relevant variant options (e.g. type, size, color) and option values (e.g. small, large, green, blue).
For example, if you enable variants for a product and insert "Hair type" and "Color" as variant options:
In the Product recipe / BOM tab:
Variant options can be chosen from the Active variant dropdown
The rows of the table represents the recipe/BOM for that variant
Initially, a product recipe for a variant may look something like this:
In most cases, you'll use different ingredients for each variant.
Creating variant-specific product recipes
Choose the variant you want to add a recipe to from the Active variant dropdown
Add materials (or subassemblies) to the product recipe by clicking + Add row at the bottom of the table. You can start by entering all of the ingredients required for all of the product variants and then use the Copy to... button to add this recipe/BOM to the other variants -or- you can just add the specific recipe for this variant. Learn more about the Copy to... function.
Tip: You can create variants for materials to use in the product recipe. However, you can't create material variants through the quick-add feature in the table. To create material variants, navigate to the material card.
In the table, you can choose the quantity of each ingredient (or subassembly) and add notes by row.
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