Materialnet specific user manual

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Welcome to the MaterialNet specific manual – this is a step by step illustration of using MaterialNet
- This is a specific instruction for MaterialNet V3.58 onward. For earlier version please refer to the old manual.
- For installation instruction, please refer to the separate installation guide.
- For the general instruction of our software, please refer to the ibuyer.hk general software manual.
- For the platform, database structure and design change of software, please refer to the technical manual
Table of content
01. Target user of MaterialNet. (p.03)
02. The design concept of MaterialNet. (p.03)
03. Parts – gather parts, accessories, trims & raw materials. (P.04)
04. BOM – bills of material modules. (p.04)
05. Purchase. (p.06)
06. Receiving. (p.07)
07. Dispatch. (p.08)
08. Adjustment. (p.09)
09. Re-order. (p.09)
10. Inventory report – item master (p.10)
11. Closing stock report. (p.11)
12. Workgroup user name and password. (p.12)

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Target user of MaterialNet
The MaterialNet aimed at manufacturer, ODM factory with product line, factory with own design end product, Workshop and
material procurement department. The MaterialNet is simply saying an inventory system for raw material management.
Design concept of MaterialNet
It manage the logistic, movement of raw material, trims, accessories and parts from the warehouse till dispatch to the workshop. The
workflow is;
1. Parts; gather the parts, accessories, trims and raw material information
2. BOM – Bills of Material; parts list required to produce an end product
3. Purchasing; purchase raw material, parts
4. Receiving; when supplier deliver parts to your warehouse
5. Dispatch; distribute the parts to workshop
6. Adjustment; record damages, lost, stolen, stock count or return items
7. Re-order; for procurement or purchasing department to issue re-orders
When you open the MaterialNet, you will see the dashboard.
It’s not only a dashboard, it also serve the purpose of the workflow for everyone to follow.
Please follow the workflows buttons, left to right, top to bottom to input, input & edit the information to the database.
Simply saying the workflows is parts, BOM, purchase, receiving, dispatch, adjustment and re-order

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Parts
Parts modules is used to gather all the parts, accessories, trims and raw material information from the supplier. Which can be re-used
in the rest of the MaterialNet modules. Suppose you have a watch glass parts for making a watch in your factory. You may ask all of
your supplier to quote a price to you and keep the detail information here. There is a price quote comparison report which pull out
all the parts with same item group or brand name for price compare. This could find out the cheapest supplier of the same parts and
help the purchasing department to get the best cost element.
BOM – Bills of Material Modules
This is the most important modules of MaterialNet.
It holds the BOM of all the end products of your factory and all the parts breakdown were listed on sub-table.
If your factory has 200 end products, then you have to create 200 BOM, those BOM sheet has all the parts that required to
reproduce it and listed on sub-table.
First fill in parts information and then create BOM by using the parts information.
User are supposed to use the BOM to control the dispatch, purchase of parts by the BOM modules.
There is 2 button to achieve this purpose;
1. Convert BOM to dispatch button
2. Convert BOM to purchase button
Please see below screenshot

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- Convert BOM to dispatch
For example, if the factory want to start the production of an end product, they can use the BOM modules to review the parts
inventory information before doing so. This could help the workshop and production department to know the where about of the
parts before making a go or no go decision.
If workshop is looking for JIS – a just in time production as their goal, this modules could be very helpful to them.
Once they have decided to start with the job order, they can simply click the convert current BOMID to dispatch button, then the
MaterialNet will convert the current BOM to a dispatch information with the dispatch parts and the dispatching quantity.
So that warehouse stock keeper can prepare the parts for production of the required job order.
In case of re-production of any end product, they just need to change the bulk quantity of the new job order, then the MaterialNet
Will re-calculate the parts required quantity according to the new bulk quantity. Such that it helps the production department to
oversee the full picture of the parts situation and if it has enough parts to start with. Before converting it to a dispatch record for the
warehouse stock keeper to arrange dispatching the relevant parts.
The status field will automatically check the warehouse inventory and see if the required quantity (parts) is good enough to carry out
the production of the new job order.
- Convert BOM to purchase
The purchasing officer, procurement officer or production manager can use this to review the inventory level of the parts
That required to start the production of a particular job order. First to determine whether the warehouse have sufficient parts to
finish the job order or replenishment is required. If it is insufficient, they can convert it to a purchase order.

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Purchase
You have to issue purchase order for parts, raw material and so your supplier will deliver it to your warehouse. (The item selection
will only show up on receiving & dispatch if it has created an ItemID with it) Click the purchase button and follow purchase form will
be opened.
There is three way to create a purchase order
- Add a new purchase order and fill in the part directly. (by the select & insert button on right end)
- Convert from the BOM modules. (by the convert button on right side)
- Convert from the re-Order modules. (by the convert button on right top)
After you have fill in or convert a purchase information, may print preview the purchase order or comparison report by the right
hand side pull down list. Another receiving & pending history list will show you the actual receiving quality and outstanding quantity
of the current purchase order by clicking it.
Please be reminded that a parts must be created in the purchase form (with an ItemID No.) in order to show up in the selection pull
down-list of the receiving, dispatch and adjustment form sub-table.
If you are using the MaterialNet at the very beginning, you need to prepare an opening stock for the existing warehouse item. This
can be done by creating a purchase record with all the existing parts and then convert it to a receiving record. Pretended that the
existing items all went through a purchase and receiving. As a result, all the existing items will have a valid inventory record in the
MaterialNet system.

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Receiving
When a supplier deliver goods to your warehouse, stock keeper will process stock in (receiving) procedure. By that time, they need to
fill in records of receiving. When you open the receiving form, you will see following screen.
Stock keeper may create a receiving record by
- Add a new receiving and fill in the stock in part directly. (by the select & insert button on right end)
- Convert from the purchase modules. (by the convert button on right side)
Once selected & inserted, you have to fill in the rest details;
- storage location
- Spec.; specification of the goods, color, size, weight, volume, lot, shade, EAN#, IMIE# and etc.
- package description
- Quantity; quantity of the stock in goods
- Expiry date; expiry date of the goods
- No of case; total case number, carton box, packs, pallets description.

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Dispatch
When the production department wanted to start a job order and move parts to workshop for production.
Production department may create a dispatch record by
- Add a new dispatch and fill in the stock out part directly. (by the select & insert button on right end)
- Convert from the BOM modules. (by the convert button on right side)
Converting a dispatch from the BOM modules is strongly recommended. As the production department can review the inventory
situation before converting and they had a better idea of which parts are good enough or insufficient. Such that they can arrange
purchase of the insufficient parts right away.
After creating a dispatch, the stock keep can arrange a dispatch of the parts to workshop ready for production by the pick list.

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Adjustment
From time to time, the stock keeper need to do some adjustment on the warehouse record. This could be missing, stolen, damage,
broken goods, return, on hold, malfunction of the parts after stock taking.
Stock keeper may use this adjustment form to fill in and record these parts into the database
Re-Order
The procurement or purchasing department may issue re-orders easily by this. It has a list of all the parts and list out both the
leftover quantity and pending quantity (outstanding, non-delivering parts) current inventory position.
The purchasing officer may use the filter to sort out parts by their group natures. Either by description, item group, brand name,
leftover quantity or supplier code. After reviewing the inventory position, convert the whole group to a purchase record by the
convert button.

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Inventory report – item master
The item master will display a summary of an item one by one. With all the inventory reports help you to get leftover, storage,
movement, closing stock, low level and current item stock in / stock out summary.
The item master shows all the parts that you purchased and show up one by one. With the most recent record being shown on top
together with leftover quantity, stock-in and stock-out summary. So that management can see every single item in one screen, you
can navigate record to see the rest parts inventory. The item master is a read only panel, user is not supposed to carry out any input
or edit of the inventory information in this form. It’s only a read only module to show you a summary of every item inside your
warehouse with receiving & deliveries detail. Stock keeper can use this panel to find, search for any item or group of items.
Management can have overall reports of the inventory leftover in real time with the help of this item master.

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Closing stock report
In the year end, the accounts department needs to perform an audit on the value of the leftover inventory. The old fashion way is to
carry out a stock taking for the entire warehouse, this is very labor intensive and time consuming. However, you may print this
closing stock report to list out the total leftover quantity and the total value. The closing stock report will be grouped by currency
with the total value. Make it easier for both stock keeper and accounts.
The auditor may also ask for a certain parts movement in the warehouse within a certain period. To find out this item movement
between the particular period would be very time consuming or even impossible. But we have a movement and closing stock report
between a data range could help solve this problem.

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Workgroup user name and password
Our database software by nature is being used by multiple user over a company network in order to get the most benefit of its
information sharing purpose, thus a structural database is very powerful for business operation. On top of sharing data beyond
merchandisers, user right control is also important to limit individual staff to access any sensitive information. In this connection, we
have designed our database software with build-in user right workgroup to achieve this goal. Listed below is the build-in user name,
password and their right.
By default, all users password is 123 for all logon names.
User name password right
Ibuyer.hk 6691144911 project designer
VP 123 admin
CEO 123 admin
Boss 123 admin
GM 123 all data user
MM 123 all data user
ReadOnly 123 read only
AddOnly 123 add data only
EditOnly 123 edits data only
Purchaser 123 purchasing modules
Purchaser01 123 purchasing modules
Sales 123 sales modules
Sales01 123 sales modules
Keeper 123 stock modules
Keeper01 123 stock modules
Shipping 123 shipping modules
Shipping01 123 shipping modules

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