Finished Goods

What Are Finished Goods?

In Arryved Brewery Management (ABM), there are three types of Items: Materials, Finished Goods or Other. Finished Goods are the Items you sell to your Customers. They’re generally the beverages you produce, other beverages you sell, and merchandise. Use this guide to learn how to add Finished Goods to the Items section of your ABM. 

Prerequisites

  • To add or edit Finished Goods, you must be an ABM User with either the Admin, Sales, Inventory, or Production User Role. The Delivery User Role grants view-only access to Items. 
  • It’s recommended to add any Suppliers you purchase wholesale goods from in your ABM first, so you can assign the Supplier to the Item. But, you can always add them in later. 
  • Item Parts must be added as an individual Item first, then can be nested within a larger Item Size. 

Limitations

  • Material types are predefined in your ABM, you can’t add custom types. But there is a ‘Misc.’ type you can use.
  • Est. Taproom Revenue is not synced with QuickBooks because it is simply an estimate and the actual data is generally collected through your point-of-sale. But this number can be found in your ABM reporting. 

How It Works


Recommended Starting Point

Here’s how it goes: Items have Sizes and sizes have Item Parts. 

  • So a Finished Good Item that’s a ‘Coffee Stout’ for example, can come in various Sizes such as a single can, 4-pack, 6-pack, case, keg, etc. 
  • Then, each of those Sizes can have Item Parts. For example, a case size can have the beer itself, aluminum cans, toppers, and a cardboard tray. 
  • Each Item Part is an Item itself. 

When adding Finished Goods to your ABM, we recommend starting with Item Parts first, so those can be added to the larger Item Sizes you create thereafter. Packaging Items may want to be entered Materials. 


Adding A New Item

  1. From the left side navigation, click Items.
  2. Click New Item.  

General Info 

  1. Stay under the GENERAL tab for the new Item.
  2. Enter the name of this Finished Good in the Name field. 
  3. Under Class, select ‘Finished Goods’.
  4. Under Type, select one of the options that best describes this Item. 
  5. Tags can be applied to help you filter Items in your reporting. Tags are optional and can be added later if you haven’t created any yet. 
  6. Select the Supplier that this Item comes from. If it’s an Item that you produce, select your company as the Supplier. It should be on the list from your ABM onboarding. 
    • If you haven’t added this Supplier to the Company section of your ABM yet, you can come back to this later. 
  7. If you select ‘Beer’ as the Type, the Product Data section will appear. This gives you the option to add some additional identifying information about the beer. 
  8. Click Save in the upper right corner before adding Sizes in the next section.

Adding Sizes

All the available sizes for this Finished Good will live in the Sizes section on this Item’s profile. Sizes may refer to packaging sizes for beverages or general sizes for merchandise. 

  • Think about all the possible sizes you need. Single cans, 4-packs, 6-packs, and cases can all be separate sizes. 

Note: When adding a Size, some of the fields will be different based on the type of Finished Good you selected (Beer, Cider, Coffee, Merchandise, etc.) In this example, we will focus on the Beer type because it is the most popular and allows for the most granularity. 

  1. Under the Sizes section of the new Item, click Add Size.
  2. Select an Item Format. For beer, this is the packaging type. 
  3. Select the exact Item Size in volume. The options are dependent on what’s selected as the Item Format.
  4. Enter a Wholesale Price. What price will you sell this Item for at this size? 
    • This price appears on Invoices (but can be overridden). If using the ABM + QuickBooks Sync, this is the price used to determine Accounts Receivable.
  5. Check the Wholesale box to allow this to be sold through your ABM. If this box is left unchecked, this Item won’t be available for Invoices. 
  6. Default Cost can be used to set an estimated cost for producing this Finished Good at this size. Or, if this is a Finished Good purchased from a Supplier, such as a guest beer, enter the Cost to purchase here. 
  7. You can enter a Deposit Value to automatically add a deposit price to the Invoice when this Finished Good is sold at this size. 
    • However, we recommend adding deposit values to the Item Parts section instead. We will get to that shortly. 
  8. Est. Taproom Revenue is an estimate of expected revenue from selling this Good at retail price to consumers. 
    • This number is not used in the ABM Quickbooks Sync. Your ABM tracks this number in your reporting whenever this Good is sold in an Inventory Location of the ‘Taproom’ type. 
  9. Enter a SKU for an optional identifier for this Item. 
  10. UPCs appear on Invoices for Customers listed as Off Prem, assuming they’ll be reselling your Item in its original packaging (not on draft). 
    • You can use UPCZilla to validate your UPCs.
  11. Check the Not Inventoried box if you don't want to track this Item in your Inventory. Your ABM will assume that you have an infinite supply of it and automatically generate new units when necessary.
  12. Check the Allow fractional units box to interact with the Item in fractions of a unit down to 0.001. This may be useful for instances when you might need to process a partial return or unpackaged items like Brite beer where you'll frequently be working with quantities that aren't divisible by whole barrels. 

Reorder Point

Reorder Point is a tool that allows you to set safety net parameters to help make sure you don't run out of a Finished Good before it's too late. Your ABM will warn you when your Inventory falls below your safety net. Then, you'll know it's time to reproduce this Good.

Safety Stock is your first Reorder Point tool. Enter a buffer count as a safety net in case of an unusual spike in sales of that item. If a “10” is entered, then ABM will provide a warning that it may be time to reproduce this Item when the On Hand Inventory count reaches 10 or below.

Lead Time allows you to enter the time (in days) it takes to produce this item after a Batch has begun. The lead time will be taken into account and ABM will warn you when there isn’t enough inventory to cover the Rate of Use plus the Lead Time. Here’s how it’s calculated:

  • Inventory On-Hand / Rate of Use = On-Hand Coverage.
  • If the On-Hand Coverage is less than the Lead Time, you’ll receive a warning.
  • If you also have a Safety Stock entered, ABM will take both into account when providing you with a warning.

Item Parts

Item Parts allow you to get even more granular with your Item Sizes. They allow you to specify all the individual components of an Item. 

For example, a case size of a beverage can consist of:

  • The unpackaged beverage (just the liquid itself)
  • (24) 12oz aluminum cans
  • (4) 6-pack toppers 
  • (1) Cardboard tray 

A 1/2 barrel keg size can consist of 

  • The unpackaged beverage
  • The Keg shell

You need to enter these Item Parts as their own Finished Good Item first, so they can then be added to this Item Size. 

This is where it’s handy to add Deposit Values to Item Parts, so they can be attached to the packaging and not be associated with the beer itself. 

Unpackaged or “WIP” beverages are also helpful for Production Batch planning to specify the real Output that each stage of the Batch is producing. 

  1. Click the dropdown arrow next to Item Parts to expand the section.
  2. Click Add item part.
  3. Search for the Item Part from your full list of Items.
  4. Enter a quantity to scale properly. For example, a case should have 24 16-oz cans. 
  5. Select a Unit of measurement. 
  6. Add as many Item Parts as you need, then click Update Item Size when ready. 

Item Parts is a nested feature, meaning you can have Item Parts within Item Parts! A single can of beer can have Item Parts (the aluminum can and the liquid beer) and it can also be the Item Part for the 4-pack, 6-pack, and case sizes!


Saving Your Work

When you’re done creating this Finished Good and configuring all the Sizes, click Save & Close in the top right corner. 

Next

If you came from the ABM Onboarding Guide, head back there and continue to the next step. Or, check out other related articles below. 

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