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What are inventory

Inventory items are an integral part of BUZ, you may not see them very often, but any time there is a price, calculation or a change in behaviour, there will be an inventory item in the background.

Types of Inventory items

When it comes to inventory items, there are 5 five different groups

  • Fabric and/or materials (Main Group)

  • Components

  • Overhead

  • Service

  • Reporting

Fabrics and or Materials

types:

  • Product (main inventory item) - Primary material or key component used to create a finished product. E.g. for Roller Blinds this could be Material, Material Type and Colour.

  • Manufactured - Components or parts used in the manufacturing of a product but isn’t charged to a customer. E.g. screws, washers, motor brackets.

  • Component - Components that are charged and required to manufacture a product. E.g. Motors, Pelmets, Brackets.

  • Service - Services such as installation, delivery, cleaning, warranty etc.

  • Overhead - Primarily added to Groups or Job Sheets to add additional costs to products that is not charged to the customer.

Product (Fabrics or Materials)

The most common Inventory item in BUZ

We generally refer to this as the inventory items for the Main Group this is because every product will have its own material listEach Product group will have a list of Main Inventory items.

Setting up Materials is a little different to the other types of inventory items.

These There is a benifit benefit to utlising utilising the material list as they can be updated easily in the order process, and there is a few reporting tools that link to the material list, such as this one - If you are logged in to BUZ, click here.

Material lists have 3 main three fields, which are customisable so that you can change the name of the type of question, but as a default we populate

  • Material (Brand or style)

  • Material type and

  • Colour

For more information, click here

Components

Components are add-on items for your main product.

Generally anything Anything that has a cost associated to with it will be required to be entered in to into BUZ as an inventory item , so that you can link it to a price co-efficient, cost and or cost & price grid to the item.

Click here for some examples.

Overhead

This can be added to a group or Jobsheet Job sheet to add costs to making a product.
Overhead expenses include 

  • accounting feesAccounting Fees,

  • advertisingAdvertising,

  • insuranceInsurance,

  • interestInterest,

  • legal feesLegal Fees,

  • labor burdenLabour Burden,

  • rentRent,

  • repairsRepairs,

  • suppliesSupplies,

  • taxesTaxes,

  • telephone billsTelephone Bills,

  • travel expendituresTravel Expenditures, and

  • utilitiesUtilities

Service

Inventory Items can also be used to set a particular Dispatch type or adding add a second installer.

By adding Adding an inventory item with a selected installation or dispatch type you can add some automation to the setup.

For help with setting up a Service, Click here.

Reporting

You can also use inventory items to help with reporting.

BUZ has a large variety of choice choices for reports, but there are a few things that don't necessarily get captured , simply because it inst always required.

Adding They are adding an inventory item to a product as a way to create a report. A lot of questions that a sales person salesperson asks does do not require its own report, and BUZ has a few dedicated reports builtin Reports built-in, but they are generally for Fabrics and materials.

If you want a report on how many motor, motors or tracks are sold then , you need to create an inventory item so BUZ can calculate something.

How Do I get to this area

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Settings → Inventory Items

How do I add an Inventory item?

There is 2 are two different ways to add inventory, either Inventory: by creating a list in Excel and using the Import function or using the BUZ interface.

Click here for more information.

Here are some other links that might help you

Information on adding, editing and deactivating Inventory

View file
nameInventory_Items.pdf

Click here for the Inventory_Items.pdf