Recipe Templates

Recipes Templates in Augtool are simply formulas or ratios for items (raw materials) being converted by production into finished products.

Please note (very important), the recipe is not the output item, it is a formula that can be used to create output or finished goods items. Like a recipe for a cake. The recipe in the book is not the cake, it can be used to make a cake. 

The above recipe, as you can see has one output product and 3 input products. You can use more than one product that has different types of units of measure. The above example has two input products that are set to Tons and the bag product set to quantity (each) unit of measure.

Please consider this next explanation carefully. when you set the unit of measure for a particular item to force integer (which you can set in the unit of measure setup) and use this recipe on a production order or sales order. The quantity you change your output product to will force the input products quantity to change based on its recipe formula. However, if the increase or decrease of the output product forces the inputs to increase with a fraction, the items that have force integer will round up to the nearest integer.  This can be used when you add for instance 500kg bags to the production line. This means that if the output product requires 2.4 bags it will always round the bags up to 3 because you cannot have half bags.  

Recipes can have multiple output items (Finished products), and multiple input items (raw materials). Some companies want to unbundle products and some companies want to assemble products in production. You may have a recycling company that runs production to sort one product into multiple products. You may also have a chemical company that wants to take multiple input items and mix them together to form one output product. 

Recipes are not currently linked to a site/warehouse or production plant. So when you have created a recipe, you will be able to use this recipe for any warehouse and any machine provided there is enough stock input for the raw materials. 

Please note that recipes have output and input products. These products have to exist before you configure the recipe. Only configure to order recipes create their output products on the fly or without an existing output product. Do not confuse the output product of a recipe with the recipe itself. However, once you have linked an output product to a recipe under the linking tab of an output product, it cannot be used again as on output product within a recipe. For instance, if an item called Table already exists and is used in a recipe as an output product with wood, screws and glue as input products for example. Then you will not be able to use that product as an output product in any other recipe, even if you wanted to produce a table with different items. In this case, you would have to create two table items for the output products. 

When adding recipes to sales orders or production orders you can use predefined recipe templates to do so. Please see above. Once you select the recipe with an autocomplete you can load the template and click submit to add it to the sales and production orders.

Should you want to edit this template you can unlink the recipe from the template and customise with the top left button. This will mean that no output product will be defined until you post the sales and production order. When you do this, you convert the recipe into a CTO (configure to order) recipe. In this case the output products are created on the fly and are categorised into the CTO enabled category. Please see the CTO section of this guide for more details on this. 

When creating a recipe, there is a raw materials ratio check that the system performs. It is not overly complicated and serves a basic function. 

If you add a table for instance (example above) to the output section and three other products as inputs. The output product is compared to the sum of the input products that have a check box next to it. In the case above, the 1 compared to the 1.5 is not the same so the system warns the user that the input is not the same as the output. You should only compare the output to the main input product such as table and wood in this regard. You can compare to multiple items but the units of measure should be the same. If the table is 1 and is set to quantity unit of measure and you require 3 meters of wood then this check will not work for you. However, if you are producing fertiliser as an output and use multiple fertiliser components as an input all in the same unit of measure, this warning will work for you. 

Please consult with us should you require more advanced unit checks and more advanced recipes. Our recipes do not add a production cost to the output product as a setting, but you can add non inventory items to the inputs to inflate the output product. Our recipes are also not linked to stages and routes but we will happily enhance the system with a design we already have for this.