I am exploring the capabilities of Manager in a Restaurant business. The menu products which have a recipe I have created as Inventory Kits, however there are other menu products with some ingredients which have to undergo a preparation or production process. I understand that i can create Production orders for this step, but I find it cumbersome that for every Finished item of a production order, I have to update the quantity of each Inventory Item used in the bill of material, a process that can be minimized if I can save a Recipe for a Finished item, such that all I need is to state the quantity for a finished item i need in my production order and then the quantities of the bill of materials are updated according to the recipe.
The closest you can get is to clone a previous production order.
I urge you to search the forum for discussions of inventory usage in the restaurant business. You may be going through a tremendous amount of work for little benefit, because you do not stock the finished product for later sale.
Cloning a previous order is the closest true, but the challenge is when u change the quantity on the finished item u still have to go through all the items in the bill of materials to update the quantities of each.
The finished items that i do not stock i have created as inventory kits, and that has saved a whole lot of time, because for this one unlike a production order, it does save the bill of materials as more like a recipe, and all i need to do is state the quantity of kits sold, no problem with stock management