Warehouse Kits can also be referred to as a Bill of Materials. It is a facility which enables you to define a parent item as being made up of variable quantities of component items. For example you may have a parent item of a First Aid Kit which is made up of components such as Bandages, Aspirin, Band Aids and so on.
The Warehouse Kits facility enables you to define those parent items with this definition then being available for use in other parts of the system.
A Warehouse Kit consists of some header fields and multiple lines of details relating to components. The header fields are;
Type This will be set by the system to “Warehouse” and cannot be altered. The Bill of Materials facility is used in other modules of TLP and the Type differentiates these.
Parent Item This is the unique identifier of the kit and is set by the user at time of creation.
Product This is the product code of the parent item and if used must be a valid product in the Warehouse system. If used the product should have the Kit field set to link to the Parent Item.
Description A free form description of the item.
Units The unit of measure of the parent item
Quantity The quantity of the parent item that this kit represents.
Cost Price This is calculated by the system and is the cost of one unit of the parent item.
Sale Price This is calculated by the system and is the sale price of one unit of the parent item.
Kit Lines
A grid view displays all components of the parent item. Basic descriptive and valuation details are shown with totals at the bottom of the screen.
The system will automatically calculate the Cost and Sale Prices however if you want to force a calculation click on the button labelled “Prices” and a recalculation will be carried out.
A new kit line can be added in one of two ways.
- Use the green search button on the top right to open up a product search. Any selected product will have details fed into a new kit like.
- Use the blue + button on the top right to manually add the component details.
Component details can be viewed or edited using the blue edit button to the right of the line. There are three types of component that can be added to a kit. Firstly there are Products but you can also add Equipment to cover the use of any plant items you may use and Labour to recover your labour cost in building the kits.
Product Component
When adding a product component you should first select your product item which can be done by either using the green search button and selecting an item or by typing in the code and selecting your item from the drop down list.
Once the product code has been entered the system will return the Description, Units, Cost Price and Sale Price from the product record. To complete the line the user must enter;
Quantity The quantity required for this kit.
TLP will calculate the Cost and Value figures for this line.
Equipment Component
To add an Equipment Component you must select the equipment item using the green search button. This will result in the Description, Cost and Sale Prices being returned as well as the equipment code. The Units will be set by default to Hours but if this is not correct it should be changed.
The user should then enter the quantity required which will enable the valuation calculations to take place.
Labour Component
To add a Labour Component you must select the labour item using the green search button. This will result in the Description, Cost and Sale Prices being returned as well as the Employee Code. The Units will be set by default to Hours but if this is not correct it should be changed.
The user should then enter the quantity required which will enable the valuation calculations to take place.