Inventory Items

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 five different 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

Each Product group will have a list of Main Inventory items.

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

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

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

Material (Brand or style)
Material type and
Colour

For more information, click here

Components

Components are add-on items for your main product.

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

Click here for some examples.

Overhead

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

Accounting Fees,
Advertising,
Insurance,
Interest,
Legal Fees,
Labour Burden,
Rent,
Repairs,
Supplies,
Taxes,
Telephone Bills,
Travel Expenditures, and
Utilities

Service

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

Adding an inventory item with a selected installation or dispatch type 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 choices for reports, but there are a few things that don't necessarily get captured simply because it inst always required.

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

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

How Do I get to this area?

Settings → Inventory Items

How do I add an Inventory item?

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

Click here for more information.

Here are some other links that might help you

Information on adding, editing and deactivating Inventory

Click here for the Inventory_Items.pdf

BUZ Documentation