"Add Stock Quantity" and "Remove Quantity from Stock"

In the Planning Assistant, you can define that a part of the produced quantity will be added to stock for use in a later job. For example, you can produce the cover of a booklet in advance and print the content later.

Procedure

​1.​In job A, the required quantity is preproduced and added to stock.

​2.​In job B, the preproduced quantity is taken from stock.

If job B is a repeat job of A, the stock quantity is detected automatically and can be withdrawn. If job B is not a repeat job of A, an unspecified quantity can be withdrawn. In this case, there is no automatic feedback on the required withdrawal. To be able to manually set a quantity for stock withdrawals, the option "Stock withdrawal: Allow manual quantity entries" must be enabled in the "Administration > Preferences > All users > Planning assistant" area. See "Stock withdrawal: Allow manual input of quantities" option.

Example: The over for a booklet is produced earlier and withdrawn from stock for the repeat job

Step 1: In job A, the cover is produced earlier and added to stock

​1.​Open job A.

​2.​Go to the Planning Assistant with the "Scheduling" button in the "Print" step.

​3.​Go to the "Sheet finishing" planning step.

Because cutting the sheets is planned here, the printed sheets are ready for being added to stock.

​4.​Select the operation for cover production and click "Add Stock Quantity" in the context menu.

The "Stock quantity" dialog opens.

​5.​Enter the quantity you want to add to stock (for example, 1000).

​6.​Click "OK".

A new operation for adding to stock is created automatically.

This operation also displays in the process chain in "Processing" as "Stock_ToStock".

This concludes all steps required for stocking.

Step 2: In job B, the quantity is withdrawn from stock

The covers produced in job A are withdrawn from stock for job B.

​1.​Create a new job B.

In order for the stock quantity to be detected automatically, job B must be a repeat job of A. See How do I create a repeat job and import the data from the previous job?.

If you enter a quantity yourself, automatic quantity recognition is disabled and the quantity entered is taken from stock. If job B is not a repeat job of job A, you must as a rule type the quantity yourself.

​2.​With the job open, go to the Planning Assistant with the "Scheduling" button in the "Print" step.

​3.​Go to the "Print" step.

​4.​Select the operation for which you wish to remove a quantity from stock.

​5.​Select "Remove Quantity from Stock" in the context menu.

The "Add Quantity from Stock" dialog opens.

​6.​Select the quantity or enter a quantity you want.

​•​In "Quantity" (1) you can withdraw a custom quantity you want from stock.

​•​If you enable the "Job" (2) option, you can withdraw the stock quantity from a previous job provided that the current job is a successor job of this previous job. The example shows the withdrawal of a quantity from a previous job.

​7.​Confirm the dialog with "OK".

A new operation for stock withdrawal is created. This operation also displays in the process chain in "Processing" as "Stock_FromStock".

In addition, a new operation for adding the residual quantity to stock will be created in our example.

This concludes stock withdrawal.