Items

Start with the basics — name, type, method — then the item page opens with tabs for everything else.

Open any item and a guided walkthrough explains each tab — Overview, BOM & Routing, Costing, Production docs, Revisions — and how they feed each other. No items yet? Tour a ready-made sample instead.

Stock levels and movements for these items live under Inventory, tracked per location.

As you type a name or SKU on the new-item form, the workspace looks for items that already exist under a similar name, a matching reference or the same SKU. Matches are listed with links so you can open the existing item instead. An identical SKU is blocked outright; a similar name asks you to acknowledge it before Create unlocks.

The bulk CSV upload runs the same check at the preview step — rows whose SKU already exists are marked “already exists, will be skipped” so an import never creates duplicates.

Every item is one of two things, and the choice decides the tabs you see and how low stock is topped up. Purchased — bought from a supplier: stock, spares, consumables — has a Supplier tab and reorders by purchase order. Manufactured — made to your drawing — has BOM & Routing, Costing and Production docs; its standard cost is the frozen roll-up of BOM plus routing taken on the Costing tab, never typed in, and the item says so when the roll-up has drifted since it was last taken.

A manufactured item also says how it is made: in-house, where low stock raises a work order, or subcontracted, where an outside shop makes it to your drawing and low stock raises a purchase order to that supplier — so a subcontracted item has a Supplier tab too.

Switching the type hides tabs but clears nothing until you save.

The Supplier tab holds the default supplier, lead time and minimum order quantity. The MOQ is a soft floor: the reorder suggestion and the replenishment draft PO never propose less than it, but a buyer can still key any quantity on a PO by hand. Replenishment — reorder point, safety stock and the optional Kanban card — is its own tab on every item and saves itself.