Ability to track material components....
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Marleena Barran
... that can affect multiple listings, turning listings off if the material stock runs out.
Say, several pendants with individual SKU's use a single type of jewelry box as a material component. There are 30 boxes available, but only 5 pendants. If either type of pendant sells then then that removes one box from the 30.
At the moment using normal components syncs the quantity based on the box and vice versa. So if I link the pendant with the box, I end up having 30 pendants, instead of 5.
So the BOX quantity would only adjust with a sale, not the inventory quantity of the pendants its connected to. Likewise adjusting the BOX stock levels doesn't adjust the levels of the linked pendants.
If the quantity of the boxes is then lower than the quantity of the pendants, then the stock level could adjust to the boxes. If the box quantity reaches zero, then it also turns the connected pendant listings off, even if their quantity is higher. This part could be optional.
This would allow me to get an inventory alert when the jewellery boxes are running low to order more.
This would allow me to keep track of other components that aren't tied to one listing like leather cords, shipping boxes, business cards etc.
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Arturo Aubry
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Already supported through bundling / kitting feature.
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Danila Shephard
I would like to be able to manage the inventory of my materials without making listings, for my products that we produce in bulk, so I know when to order more. I will probably get AIMS360 for this, but only because I'm already trained in it and can get it for free after my certification.
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Cynthia Kay Schmidt
Danila Shephard: I use Craftybase.com to track all my materials, create "recipes" for my products, and much more. I sell handmade jewelry, so lots of material inventory to track across many products for both individual "manufacturing" and bulk.
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Sheena Mays
Cynthia Kay Schmidt: so you use CraftyBase for materials and Trunk for actual inventory?
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Cynthia Kay Schmidt
Sheena Mays: Yes, exactly. Here’s more detail if you are interested…
I make/sell handmade jewelry. Selling retail, I make each product to order using the materials I have on-hand.
I use Craftybase (CB) to track all of my materials used to make my final products. CB does more than that, though. For each product, I have “recipes” in CB so that I can “manufacture” a product in CB and it will automatically adjust my material stock based on the product's recipe. CB also has components, so I can make a product out of multiple components - e.g. I might sell a pair of earrings as a product, a necklace as a product, and then have a set with both as a third product. So the earrings and necklace could be made as components and they would be used to make the set as a product. I mention that since the original posted question is related to that type of thing.
CB also connects to some sales channels (i.e., Shopify, Amazon, Etsy). This connection will sync orders from those channels so each product’s orders are also updated and you can use auto-manufacture and let CB automatically adjust your materials per the orders.
Given that all of my material info is tracked in CB, to know how many products I can offer to sell, I must look at my product on CB. E.g., if I have enough to make 20 of a product, I have to manually split that number up across my sales channels so I don’t oversell. That’s where Trunk comes in for the product level inventory management.
If I could, I’d have Trunk connect to CB and that would be a perfect end-to-end solution. But that won’t happen cuz (1) CB doesn’t offer API access and (2) not enough people use CB for Trunk to want to do that and (3) not enough people use Trunk for CB to add support for Trunk. Bummer!
cheers,
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Sheena Mays
Cynthia Kay Schmidt: OR, if Trunk would implement a way to track raw materials. They try to push you to the material component aspect, but I do paper goods and I need to know levels for reordering purposes, for example, I have 25 dark purple envelopes left - it's time to reorder, or I have 50 card cello sleeves left, time to reorder, etc. I really love Trunk, but I just truly want a system that does it all. I agree. Bummer.
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Danila Shephard
Make the pendant a seperate component of the finished product?
James Hu
Marleena Barran This should already be supported. Could you please reach out to support with which example SKUs you're trying to do this for? More info here: https://help.trunkinventory.com/en/articles/4594092-example-material-component-dependencies