Create production operations specific to product variants to enhance operational efficiency. This guide details how to tailor operations to different product attributes such as size or color, simplifying production management by enabling modifications from a single product card.
If you are unfamiliar with variants in Katana, you may want to read what are variants and how to set up variants.
Note: If the option to create/edit a production operations isn't available, take a look at this article regarding user permissions.
Using our variants feature together with variant-specific production operations is more powerful than creating separate product cards and separate operations for each variant because this offers:
A more straightforward initial setup of variants and operations
Makes changes to operations faster and more convenient. If you need to change an operation, Resource, Time, or Cost per Hour used for a product variant, you can change it with a few clicks on a single product card, rather than replacing the same value for each variant on each product card separately.
How product variant options are displayed on the Production operations tab
If you enabled variants for a product in the General info section of a product card, you can enter relevant Variant Options (e.g. type, size, color) and Option Values (e.g. small, large, green, blue).
If you enabled variants for a product and added "Color" and "Size" as Variant Options:
In Production operations, each variant option value will appear in the dropdown as a different variant:
The Production operations section may look something like this (in this example, 5 operations are added to this particular product variant):
Assigning operations to variants
From the Production operations tab, you can select a variant and start adding operations by clicking + Add new operation. You can also copy operations from another product/variant or copy these operations steps to a different product/variant using Copy to... or Copy from....
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