Overview

Once you have reviewed and saved your production numbers, you can plan your benches—assigning what each bench will be making during the productions.

Planning Benches

Pre-Filling Benches

Pre-filling benches takes the hard work out of bench planning by automatically distributing products across your benches.

Navigate to Production > Production Planner
Click the 'Plan' or 'Edit' button for the day you'd like to plan your benches for
Within this page click ‘Plan Benches’ - you’ll be taken to the Bench Planner
From the dropdown in the top right select which production you would like to plan
Click ‘Prefill Benches’
You’ll be prompted to set the number of benches. This will be automatically filled with the default number of benches, but you can change this if needed.
Click ‘Ok’.

Your planned products will be automatically allocated across your benches in line with bench rules.

💡Tip: You can drag and drop products to change their order on the bench

Assigning Users to Benches

Before you navigate away from the Bench Planner page you will need to assign a user to each bench.

Click the dropdown by 'Assignee'
Choose the User to assign to the Bench

You can also manually enter a name and click 'Set' for instances where someone will be working on the bench that does not have an Edify account.

You can edit who is assigned to the bench at any time.

Editing Products Assigned to Benches

If you'd like to make an adjustment to the pre-filled benches:

Click 'Edit' on the relevant bench
Remove products by clicking the - symbol (this will move the product to the 'unassigned products' table. They can now be reassigned to another bench.)
Add unassigned products into a bench by:
- Clicking the + symbol to assign the entire quantity of a product, OR
- Entering the specific number you'd like to assign to the bench then clicking the + symbol
Click 'Save'

Adding or Deleting Benches

To Add a Bench

Click the 'Add Bench' button within the red box. This will create a new bench with no products allocated to it.

To Delete a Bench

Click the bin icon on the bench you'd like to delete. The products that were assigned to that bench will become unassigned.

Understanding Bench Timings

At the bottom of each bench you will see a 'Start' and 'End' time. These are auto-populated based on the schedules set within the production site settings.

Time Column

To the right hand side of the bench is a 'Time' column. This column shows how long it will take to produce the assigned quantity of that product, based on the preparation time set at a recipe level. This is shown in HH:MM:SS format.

The total time to produce all assigned products is shown in bold at the bottom.

Total Time Calculation

Edify adds on fixed estimate time for Duties and Cleaning to calculate the total amount of time required to complete the bench's production.

The 'Remaining Time' field shows you how much leftover time there is for that bench within the production times.

⚠️ Important: If the amount of time required to produce the assigned products exceeds the production times you will see a negative number highlighted in red.