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The ‘Commodity Groups’ section of the V5 Control Center allows users to group commodities together. This is mainly used for reporting and is useful for keeping track of groups of ingredients that may be used for common formulas, are commonly part of the same sales or purchase orders etc. See below for a full list of reports that Commodity Groups can apply to.

The ‘Commodity Groups’ section can be found under the ‘My Factory’ header in Control Center.

This section is split up into 2 panels:

• Top (yellow) panel: Where commodity groups can be created and named.
• Bottom (red) panel: Where individual commodities can be added to the groups created in the top panel.

Code

Custom text input to create a shorthand code for the created commodity group. Must be unique.

Name

Custom text input to name the commodity group.

Commodity Code 

Commodities can be added here, either by selecting them from a drop-down menu or by manually typing in the Commodity Code.

Commodity Description

Populated with the commodity description once a commodity code is selected.

As mentioned above, Commodity Groups are mainly used in reporting. These reports are:

Lists

Allergens_In_Use
Commodities

Production

Job_incl_Waste
Mass Balance
Operator Efficiency
Production Costs
RM_Efficiency

Purchasing

Purchase_Order_Receipt
Supplier Performance

Sales

Cost_Of_Goods_Sold

Stock

Cycle Count
Expired_Stock
Global_Consumption
Manual Stock Take
On Hold
RM_Requirements
Stock Level (Pallets)
Stock Log
Stock Receipt Containers
Stock Status
Stock_Adjustments
Stock_Level
Stock_Level_(Summary)
Stock_Lot
Stock_Lot_Incl_Movements
Stock_Movements
Stock_Receipts
Stock_Withdrawals
Supplier_Lot_Usage

Traceability

Backward_Traceability

Waste

Aborted Ingredients
Stock Waste
Waste_By_Supplier