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Deleting production operations

Efficiently remove production operations efficiently for a single product or multiple.

Dayvid Lorbiecke avatar
Written by Dayvid Lorbiecke
Updated over 3 months ago

Deleting production operations in Katana is fairly straightforward, allowing for the removal of operations from individual products or in bulk across multiple products.

This process is essential for maintaining an up-to-date production environment, ensuring that only relevant operations are in the system. The guide details the steps for both single and bulk deletion.

Note: If the option to create/edit a production operations isn't available, take a look at this article regarding user permissions.

Deleting the production operations for a single product

To delete operations for a product:

  1. Navigate to the Items screen and select a product from the list. (If a product has multiple variants, any variant you choose will direct you to the product card for all variants).

    Shows the Items screen selected

  2. Inside the Product card, click on the Production operations tab (the product will need to have I make this product checkmarked).

    Highlights the production operations tab on the product card

  3. Find the Delete option under the 3-dot button in the top corner.

Where the delete option is at for production operations

If the product has multiple variants, this will also delete all variants of the product.

Note: If you have open manufacturing orders (MO) for the product, this action won't delete production operations on those MOs. To delete or update production operations on existing MOs, go to the MO card and click Refresh data at the bottom of the screen.

Deleting the production operations in bulk (for multiple products)

To delete Production operations for multiple products:

  1. Navigate to the Items screen.

    Shows the Items screen selected

  2. Select the products you want to delete the Product recipe / BOM from. If no products are selected, the following steps will delete operations for all products.

    Shows some products selected on the items screen

  3. Click the Trash icon and select Operations from the dropdown.

    Shows the delete dropdown with Operations selected

Important! If you selected the variant of a product with has multiple variants, this will delete the operations for all the product variants.


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