Configure To Order Production

Configure to Order (CTO) "On the Fly" recipes can only be generated directly from a Sales Order. This enables the person who is in contact with the customer to configure or customize the production order units, or raw material ratios required for inputs per order. In the fertiliser industry, this is what you call prescription blends. They are prescriptions, once offs, per farmer. 

What you can see above is the recipe template popup that is presented after clicking Add Recipe on a sales order. This is where you can configure a recipe on the fly (CTO recipe). You can also load a recipe template, unlink and customise it to be a CTO recipe (this is what happened above). 

Please note that the configure to order output items that get created on the fly get their units of measure and account defaults, from the category you select in the header of the CTO recipe. Only categories that have been marked as CTO enabled can be selected here.  Be very careful about this, because the final product created will inherit the unit of measure from the category it is created into not from the input items. 

The CTO Sales Orders are filed with unique output product code numbers (that are created on the fly) that can be viewed under Items with the CTO recipe option set to "yes". This is where all the CTO items are stored after being created. As you can see above, the CTO recipe filter is set to yes and all the items in the list have system generated codes. The code name is based on an Augtool naming convention that builds the product code based on the sales order number. The names on the items above actually come from a recipe template that was previously created, unlinked and customised as a CTO recipe. In the above example, the name of the recipe template remained but could have been changed to whatever the user chose such as the top one in the example.

Just as recipe templates can be created with any input/output ratio so can CTO items be. Once you have defined your ratio on the recipe and submitted it to be added to the sales order, you can then change the output quantities and the input quantities will automatically change to meet the requirements of the recipe ratio. More about adding recipes to sales orders will be explained in the sales process of the guide. 

You cannot create a CTO recipe on a production order because the CTO recipe is by nature a recipe to Order. So you need a sales order to have a CTO recipe because you have to make something to order.