💡 With production processes, you can define which steps the production order of a recipe must go through.
💡 In Douano you will find three standard processes: Brewing process, Distilling process, and Bottling process. You can edit these standard processes, or create new ones.
⚠️ Do not make a production process unnecessarily complex, avoid adding more process steps than needed. Each process step must be confirmed individually in a production order. You can always add extra steps later if necessary.
For example: the steps of the mash schedule should not be added as separate process steps, but described in the 'description' field of the recipe.
⇢ Go to Production - Processes. Open a standard process to edit/extend it, or click on the green plus icon to create a new process.
General Information
Name: the name of the process.
Visible in dropdown lists: checked by default so the process can be selected in recipes.
Default: you can mark one process as the default process. The default process will automatically be selected when creating new recipes.
Description: an optional field for additional explanation.
Automatically consume all ingredients: use this checkbox to indicate whether, when confirming a step, the ingredient quantities according to the recipe should automatically be pre-filled for immediate confirmation.
💡 If you want more control, leave this unchecked. Then the person confirming the step must explicitly confirm all quantities.
Process Steps
💡 In this block, you define all the steps needed for the process.
💡 The first step (Planned) and the last step (Produced) cannot be changed or deleted.
By hovering over a step, you can:
Add an extra step (plus icon).
Delete a step (trash can icon).
Drag and move a step.
💡 Clicking on a step reveals extra details you can edit yourself.
Production
Name: the name of this process step. Typical examples: Brewing, Fermenting, Lagering, …
Number of days: the typical duration in days for this step.
Number of hours: the typical duration in hours for this step.
Store semi-finished product: use this checkbox to indicate that the result of this step is a semi-finished product that should be added to inventory.
💡 In the Stock management module, these semi-finished products will appear during production with an automatically generated lot number.
💡 These semi-finished products are also used for creating a semi-finished product stock card in the Customs module. More info in this 👉 guide.
Process Costs
💡 In this optional section, you can enter the costs for this process step. If you use product cost calculation, these costs are included in the total product cost of the finished product.
Cost type: the type of cost you want to record for this step. Typical examples: Cleaning cost, Energy cost, …
💡 You need to create a cost type before you can select it. See this 👉 guide.
Cost: the specific cost for the selected cost type of this step.
Invoice: if the production order belongs to a project (in the Sales module), you can mark this as a cost to be invoiced to the customer.
Optional: if the production order belongs to a project (in the Sales module), you can mark this as an optional cost that may or may not be invoiced. Within the project, you can decide whether to charge this cost.
Equipment
💡 In this optional section, you can enter the equipment used for this process step.
Equipment type: the type of equipment needed in this step. Typical examples: Brewhouse, Fermentation tank, …
Default equipment: you can optionally mark that a specific piece of equipment of the chosen type should always be used for this step.