Built Item Quantity To Build
Big Business 7.1.3 adds an optional To Build Quantity for Built Items. The To Build Quantity simplifies conversions:
• from larger unit of measure to smaller
• when repackaging from bulk
• using or breaking a case or pack that yields a fixed amount
This Solution describes enabling and using this feature. (6216)
To enable To Build Quantity:
1. Go to the Item toolbar to Item Prefs
2. Click the checkbox for To Build.
3. Click OK to Save Item Prefs.
On restart, users will see the To Build field on the Built Item Components window as well as Export, Imports, and QuickChange.
Using the To Build Quantity you can then have Built Items where more than one are built at a time. The pictured example is one Can of Coke, where one Case is the Component and the To Build Quantity is 24.
Auto-Build or entering a Build with the Item Adjustment tool automatically rounds up, building 24 even if only ten are needed at the time. This eliminates fractional cases (which are not really cases).
Chapter 309 To Build
To Build lets you set the quantity To Build for components in a kit. This was requested by a drink distributor to solve the problem of stocking and selling cases and sometimes selling singles. Selling one single from a case leaves 23 singles, not 23/24ths of a case.
This is solved by creating an item for singles and setting its Kit to use 1 of the case item To Build 24 of the single item. Big Business automatically converts full cases using Auto Build and updates Cost, Landed Cost, and Ship Weight for single items.
To Build Settings
Here is an example of using To Build settings.
To Build Kit
Here is an example of using To Build in a Kit.
To Build Invoice
Here is an example of To Build in an Invoice with Auto-Build.
To Build Auto-Build
Here is an example of an Auto-Build using To Build