Summary
A Product Control Report (PCR) is completed per production to confirm that quality and label checks have been carried out on everything produced, and to record how much was actually made. Submitting a PCR also updates your stock - the made quantity is added and the ingredients used are taken away.
You complete PCRs on the Product control review page, reached from the PCR button on the Production page. It lists everything there is to review for the day in one place, grouped into the day's production runs, hot production (by station), and ad-hoc activity (on-demand, preparation and repackaging).
Opening product control review
On the Production page for the day, select PCR in the bottom bar. The Product control review page opens, headed with the date and site.
Find what you want to review. Each item is a row with a status:
Status | Explainer |
Not reviewed | Nothing has been reviewed yet. |
In progress (X%) | Some items have been reviewed - the percentage shows how far through you are. |
Reviewed | Everything for that item has been reviewed and submitted. |
Hot production stations also note how many batches are left, for example "3/6 batches reviewed" or "No batches to review".
Select a row to open its review. Every review page carries a Reviewing as [name] banner - quality and label checks are recorded against this user, so select Sign out to switch to the correct person first if needed.
💡 Your progress saves automatically. You can move between benches, stations and tabs, leave the page, and come back later to carry on where you left off.
Reviewing a bench
Select the bench you want to review (fixed and variable productions are reviewed by bench). The Bench review page opens, with a tab for each bench.
Each product planned for the bench appears as a card. For every product:
Set Made by - choose the person who made the item from the dropdown. The checks stay locked until a user is selected.
Enter the quantities using the Made and Rejected steppers.
Tick Quality check once the products have been quality checked, and Label check once they've been label checked.
When every product is done, select Submit review.
A completed card collapses to a Complete state showing the time and who reviewed it.
💡 The Made figure can be higher than Planned if extra was produced.
Reviewing hot production
Select a hot station (for example Bakery) to open its review. Hot production is reviewed batch by batch rather than all at once: each batch has its own time window, and you work through them in turn.
For each product in the batch, set the Made and Rejected quantities and tick the Quality check and Label check, then select Submit & next batch to move straight to the next batch, or Submit review to finish. Use + Add product to record something made that wasn't planned for the batch.
⚠️ Hot production only appears here when Product Control Review is switched on for the station. See Production Settings.
Ad-hoc reviews
Ad-hoc activity is reviewed on the Ad-hoc review page, which has three tabs: On-demand, Preparation and Repackaging. Each is completed the same broad way - complete a card per product, then Submit review - but they capture slightly different details.
On-demand
On-demand covers small quantities made outside the planned productions. Each product card has Made by, Planned, Made and Rejected, plus the Quality check and Label check. Use + Add product to add each item you've made. For the full flow, see Setting On-Demand Productions.
Preparation
Preparation keeps a record of products with preparation steps that have to be done ahead of them being made during a planned production - for example, pre-preparing a batch of sauce for tomorrow's production.
Select + Add product and choose the prepared recipe, then complete its card: Made by, the Planned, Prepared and Rejected quantities, and the Quality check and Label check.
💡 A recipe only appears here when it's set up for it: tick Sub-recipe and Enable Preparation PCR in the recipe's production settings, then use it as an ingredient in another recipe. See Recipe production settings.
Repackaging
Repackaging tracks when a product needs new packaging. It records the reason, who did it, and which production the product came from.
Select + Add product, find and tick the repackaged product, then select Add product.
On its card, set Repackaged by, the Quantity, and From production (the production run the product came from).
Choose a Reason - for example Dirty Packaging, Damaged Packaging, Damaged Label or Make into Slims.
Tick Label check once the check is done, then select Submit review.
What happens when you submit
Once a review is submitted, Edify records who completed the checks and when, and the status changes to Reviewed. You can't edit a PCR's details after this point.
Submitting a PCR is treated as a stock event: Edify automatically increases the live stock level of the product by the quantity Made, and decreases the ingredients used to make it.