Stock Management Guide pt. 3: Linking Ingredients to Items for Stock Control

Step 1: Navigate to Item's Stock Management Options

1. Navigate to Products > F&B Products > Master Stock List
   
   
2. Find the Item you want to configure in the Items tab.
   
   • You can search or use the filtering tools to help find your item
3. Click the Pencil icon under the Stock column (it will say No by default or if stock management is not needed).
   
4. The Stock Management Options will appear for your item.
   

Step 2: Linking Ingredient Stock to an Item

1. Select your Stock Management option:
   • Not Needed - This indicates that you don't require the stock management functionality on this item.
   • Basic (Countable Units) - Basic Stock is intended for tracking individual, countable units. It isn't suited for items that consist of multiple ingredients.
   • Advanced (Linked to Ingredients) - This allows you to create an item's recipe by accurately linking and managing the various ingredients and their respective quantities.
2. Select Advanced (Linked to Ingredients). This will allow you to select which Ingredients are linked to this Item.
   
   
   • Type in the text field to search for your ingredient faster.
   • Click the Add button once an ingredient is selected.
   • Do this for each ingredient as necessary.
3. Adjust the Unit Used of each Ingredient for the Item.
   
   
   • This dictates how much the stock level will reduce per item sold.
   • You can opt to use 'Apply Full Unit' to use the full unit you set at ingredient level
4. Once you have added all your ingredients and measurements, click Save. You item will now say Linked under the Stock column on the Master Stock List.