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On this document we'll create an example about Inventory and Cost tracking. First of all I want to talk about key points of SambaPOS inventory system.
Let's see a simple example. We'll start by creating inventory items.
We add new inventory items from Management > Products > Inventory Items list. I'm creating a recipe for Hamburger product so I'll create some inventory items which we'll need. I have to pay attention to Unit definition. Base unit is the smallest unit of the item. Transaction unit is the unit we generally use. For example the smallest unit of the tomato is GR and we purchase tomato with KG transaction unit. If I'll use only base unit I have to leave transaction unit as zero. After saving it I'll create two more inventory items named “Bread” and “Ketchup”.
While creating Bread card I configured the base unit as Piece and there is 10 breads in one pack.
These are the required inventory items for producing Hamburger. Now we'll create a recipe from Products > Recipes > Add Recipe.
I named the recipe as Hamburger. When I write hamburger in “Product” editor and press Tab key SambaPOS will fetch all available portions and fill the portion part if there is only one portion configured for that product. Recipes are portion based. If you have more portion options for hamburger you have to configure recipes for all portions.
It is possible to add inventory items such as salt, pepper or similar small stuff but instead of tracking inventory for these items you can use “Fixed Cost” setting. SambaPOS will add this amount to the cost of all sold portions.
That's all we need to do for tracking inventory.
Next we'll start a new work period and create a new Transaction Document. We use transaction documents for increasing inventory and defining the cost of inventory items. We can only create transaction documents in a work period.