Uphance allows you to specify the raw material components of your products and then calculate and export your total materials requirement to cover sales (customer orders) or production (manufacturing).
Before specifying the components of products, you'll need to add some materials to your materials database.
Add a material
1. Navigate to Product Information >> Materials
Next, click the Actions button and select Add New Material. Then enter all the required fields and click the Create Materials button.
Material Details
Next, you will want to specify the details of your material, including the material image, category, description, and many more.
Variations
Next, you will want to specify the colors (if applicable), suppliers (optional) and customs information on the Variations tab.
Add Colors for your Raw Materials:
To add colors to your raw materials,
Type the Color name in the column field
Click on the grey box under Swatch Color
Select your color from the graphics -- or if it is not present, you can manually type the hex code in the blank field to the right.
To add additional colors, select the + plus sign Add a variation on the top right.
Once all your colors are added, click the Update button at the top.
See also our Product Swatch Images and Standard Colors Knowledge Article for additional information.
Adding Suppliers and Unit Cost
Adding a supplier is optional. If you choose to include a supplier:
Be sure to specify the per unit pricing in the supplier's currency.
Specify the exchange rate to use for costing.
And, add a supplier reference code.
Supplier details are stored alongside customer and manufacturer details in your company's database. See our Knowledge Articles on adding Manufacturers.
Adding Raw Materials to Your Products
Once you add Raw Materials to Uphance, you are ready to associate them with your Products. See our Knowledge Articles on Products:
Manage your Products
Creating/Editing a New Product - Create a new Product & enter (or edit) Product details
Product Images - Uploading Product Images to your products
Searching for Materials
Use the Search and Filter features from the Materials screen to quickly locate your raw materials. Click on the "All product seasons" filter to narrow down your search for raw materials that were used in a product within a specific season. If your raw material has not been associated with any products, you will not see that raw material in any of the seasons. You would have to associate the raw material with the product first.
Deleting a material
To delete a material from your materials database:
Navigate to the Raw Materials page.
Click the Material's Details Tab.
Click the "Retired" button as shown in Figure 2 above.
Click the "Update Material" button to save your changes.
Please note that you cannot delete a material that is in use as a product component. To hide such a material you should edit the material details and set it as "retired".
Retiring a material
When you have previously used a material but no longer want to see the material appear in Uphance, you can "retire" the material to keep it hidden by default. To do this:
Navigate to the relevant material details page.
Click the Material's Details Tab.
Click the "Retired" button as shown in Figure 2 above.
Click the "Update Material" button to save your changes.
Hidden materials
When you add a material in a size and associate it with a product, then you delete or retire that material, it may still show up in your Materials list; especially if it was previously used on orders or if it still remains as a material on some of your products. In these cases, the material will show up in your materials list as "hidden" with "strikethrough" text.
Updates to pricing and currencies
Updates made to your material database will filter through to your product total costings. For example, updating a material unit price will update the unit price for that material on all products and variations referring to that material.
Similarly, when you update a supplier currency, the currency on the materials referring to that supplier will update. You should note that the exchange rate set on the materials will not automatically update. For example, if you update a supplier currency from EUR to USD and your home currency is set to GBP, you will need to go through your active materials for that supplier and reset the exchange rates to the desired value(s).