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V9 - Waste product and yield percentage

For any output of a process, you can specify the output item as waste.

Based on the percentage of waste items and non-waste items, the system will calculate a yield for your process. This helps you to evaluate materials from different suppliers, for example, to determine which gives you the best outputs in your manufacturing. Waste items go into inventory like any other inventory item, so that they can be tracked and used later as needed.

On the Process templates list, the Expected yield column displays the anticipated yield percentage of any process. The actual yield of a process can be viewed in the Yield column of the Process transactions list.

edit_noteNOTE: SOS Inventory uses the following formula to calculate yield:
Yield = 1 - (Waste quantity/Total input quantity)

If you discard waste product, use an adjustment transaction to remove the waste item quantities from SOS Inventory.

infoTIP: For a waste item, we recommend including some designation in the item name to indicate it is a waste product. For example, if you use an item called Cod as one of the input items for a process, but some of it is wasted during the production process, create a second item called Cod - Waste to represent the waste product. This keeps waste product from getting returned to the Cod inventory and being included with its quantities. A separate waste item also makes searching and accounting for the waste via an inventory adjustment easy.

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