The Material Inventory (Experimental)
- Andres Repcik
- Dominik Lindenberger
Disclaimer: Experimental Functionality
This feature is experimental and may be subject to change or removal in future updates. It is provided "as-is" without guarantees of performance, stability, or compatibility. Use at your own discretion, and please provide feedback to help us improve. For critical applications, we recommend relying on stable features.
The material inventory is an experimental feature that introduces the ability to create material lots and view a stock level overview. This feature can be activated via a switch in the admin panel and accessed through the navigation menu element Inventory.
Activating the Material Inventory
To enable the experimental Inventory functionality, navigate to Home › B3_Migration › Switches and create the switch EnableMaterialInventory.
Creating Material Lots
To create material lots:
Access the material inventory page.
Click Create Lot above the inventory lot table.
After opening the lot creation drawer:
Select the Material for which you intend to create a new material lot. The dropdown includes all materials configured in the material settings, whether offered or for internal use only.
For more details, visit the General Material Settings section.Provide an internal Lot ID (required). Other fields are optional.
Upload attachments, such as quality documents or delivery notes, by editing the lot after it is created.
Configured material lots can be assigned to jobs via their Accessing Job Details .
Inventory Lot Table
The inventory lot table displays all created material lots and provides options to edit or delete them via icons that appear when hovering over a table row.
For an explanation of the individual columns see the following overview:
Column | Description |
|---|---|
Material | Material which the material lot object belongs to. All existing material lots for a material are taken into account to calculate the overall stock level of this material. |
Lot ID | Internal identifier given to the material lot upon lot creation. The Lot ID will be used and displayed when assigning a material lot to any print job for traceability. |
External Lot ID | Additional optional lot ID to reference the lot number provided by suppliers. |
Current stock | Current stock amount of the respective lot, can be updated via edit lot functionality. |
Updated at | Timestamp of the last update made to this material lot. |
Updated by | User who performed the last update to this material lot. |
Created at | Material lot creation timestamp. |
Created by | User who initially created the material lot. |
Attachments | Counter indicating the number of attachments uploaded to this material lot. |