Managing Green inventory

In this manual, we will show you how to add green coffee, make adjustments, view your lot's history and access your inventory report.

• Inventory in Roasting Intelligence
• Inventory in C-sar
  • Adding a green coffee
  • Bulk-editing lots
• Lot transaction history and run-out estimation
• Customizing the view
• Tracking coffee by location
• Inventory report

Inventory in Roasting Intelligence

To use Roasting Intelligence (RI), you will need to add green inventory. 

This will help you create a better log and keep track of your inventory. Cropster will automatically subtract the green coffee used in your roast, saving you time and energy.

Inventory in C-Sar

You can manage and track your green inventory with the online platform C-sar in real-time.

Adding green coffee

1. Log in to the online platform C-sar.
2. Go to Green Inventory in the menu bar at the top. 
3. To add a lot click Add Inventory and then select One or Many from the drop-down.
   
4. When adding the inventory for the first time, a window pops up where you can set the information you want to track with your greens.
   Check the box next to the information you want to capture. This will be your default view.

Adding Many

1. Clicking Many brings you to the bulk uploader where you can add multiple lots at the same time via a built-in spreadsheet.
2. Enter at least the Name, Weight and Weight unit.
3. To save time entering lots, you can copy and paste data from an Excel or Google sheet directly to the import table, or hover with the mouse pointer over the bottom-right corner of the cell until a + sign appears, then drag it down to copy cells within a column.
4. Click on Columns to customize your sheet. 
5. Click Import lots to submit.
6. A PG-number (Production Green) will be assigned to your lots. 
   

   

Adding One

1. If you want to enter a single lot at a time, click One.
2. The input fields can be customized via the Customize fields button.
3. Enter the information you want to add to your lot. 

4. Click Create green inventory to submit.

   

Bulk-editing your lots

It is very easy for you to make changes to your green lots. You can edit them individually from their unique lot pages or bulk-edit them from the inventory page.

To edit the lots directly from the inventory page, check the boxes next to the lots you want to edit. A menu bar appears on top of the table.

By clicking on Manage, you can perform the following functions for the lots selected:

• Adjust weight
• Warehouse Distribution
• Merge inventory
• Mark consumed

Adjust weight

If you want to change the weight of a certain lot, use the Adjust weight function. 

Warehouse Distribution

If you have coffee in multiple locations, use the Warehouse Distribution function to distribute the lots amongst your locations.

Merge Inventory

If you want to merge two or more lots, check the boxes next to the lots you want to merge and click Merge Inventory.

Mark consumed

If you want to empty a specific lot simply click Mark consumed. Consumed lots disappear from the main view.

Edit

If you want to edit your lots individually or add further information click the pencil symbol. 

Delete

We at Cropster recommend marking the lots as consumed instead of deleting them, this will allow you to keep track of your inventory over the years. Should you need to delete a lot, you can with the delete function.

Lot transaction history and run-out estimation

Viewing your lot's transaction history will give you some insights into your coffee usage. The Transaction history allows you to review all transactions for a green lot and shows the weight added and removed over time. Based on past transactions, Cropster predicts when you may run out of a coffee.

1. Go to a lot's detail page by clicking on a PG-tag.
2. The weights section gives you the following information:
   • Initial weight
   • Current inventory (turns yellow if it is below the minimum inventory level)
   • Minimum inventory level (optional)
   • Run out estimation
   • Price per unit
   • Total value
     
3. To view your lot's transaction history click on Transaction history and projection chart.
   Each data point on the graph shows the weight at the beginning of the day.
   • The grey dot represents the initial weight.
   • The blue line represents the history of your lot.
   • The green dot represents the current weight.
   • The yellow dotted-line represents the projected weight.
   • The red dot represents the estimated run out date.
     

Transaction history table

Check out the Transaction history table to review your lot's transactions in a table format. The table's columns can also be customized via the Customize button.

• Date: the date the transaction was registered.
• Weight before: the weight of the lot before the adjustment.
• Adjustment: shows the weight adjustment applied (to the "weight before" value).
• Weight after: the weight of the lot after the adjustment.
• Event type:
  • Roasting: the transaction is roast logged manually from C-sar, or from the Roasting Intelligence (RI).
  • Adjust: the transaction is a user-logged adjustment (i.e. Adjust weight).
  • Allocate: the transaction is a user-logged allocation of weight amongst your locations (i.e. Warehouse distribution).
  • Merge: the transaction refers to a merge of weight between two, or more lots.
• • Current: this row refers to the current status of the lot.
  • Projection: represents the projected weight until the run out estimation date.
• Location: refers to the location where the transaction occurred.
• Relation: refers to the roast ID-tag resulting from a "Roasting" transaction.
• Comment: shows the comment entered when running the "Adjust weight" function.

Customizing your green inventory view

You can easily customize which information is visible on your green inventory page. 

1. Go to the Green inventory overview page. 
2. Click the Customize drop-down menu and add ar remove fields by clicking the corresponding checkboxes.
3. Make consumed lots visible in the overview by using the toggle button at the bottom. 
   

Tracking coffee by location

You can split your lots between locations. This means that you can track your coffee from origin to warehouse to roastery and split coffees across multiple locations. When making adjustments, you can split a single lot or multiple lots at the same time which is helpful when placing orders.

Inventory report

The Inventory Report shows your green inventory on a specific day, and/or a specific location. The Inventory report has two Report types:

• Snapshot Report

• Timeframe Report*

*only available for Professional and higher tiers. 

1. To access the report, click on the See inventory report button on the top of the Green inventory page or open it via Reports > Inventory report in the main menu.
2. Switch between the By lot-, By location-, and By name-view by clicking on the tabs below the Overview Green Inventory section.

You are now ready to manage your green coffee inventory!

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We design and make alterations to our software based on user feedback, so we look forward to seeing what you have to say!