Create a Master Commodity

This product tutorial shows how to create a master commodity in the system. A Master Commodity is the main tag describing the type of commodity your recycling team is receiving from your Inbound Orders and loading onto your Outbound Orders. Commodities are not to be confused with Master Items which are used for resale purposes.

You’ll have lot of commodities in your system already. But there are times when you need to receive some commodities into the system. So we are going to add a new master commodity.  In this example, we’ll add Cell Phone – Broken Screen.

1. Navigate to Recycling > Master Commodities.

The Master Commodities page will be displayed.

2. Click Add.

The Add Recycling Master Item dialog will be displayed.

3. Enter the name of the commodity in the Name text entry box. In the example here, Cell Phones – Broken Screen is entered.

4. Enter the description of the commodity in the Description text entry box. In the example here, Broken screen cell phones is entered.

5. Check the box in the option, Required Notes during Receiving for certain commodities like dirty aluminum. You’ll need to note whether you are receiving dirty aluminum with glass or dirty aluminum with steel.

6. Check the box in the option, Require Item Count for certain commodities like LCD monitors or desktop computers where there is a pallet of 50 desktop computers.

7. Enter the name of the group in the Group text entry box.

8. In the Categories section, enter the category you want to search for and click Enter on your keyboard. In the example here, Cell is searched for.

The cell phone category will be searched for. You can add multiple categories.

9. Select the categories to which your commodity belongs to, and click OK.

The commodity is now added and you’ll be able to select Cell Phone – Broken Screen commodity while receiving items on Inventory screen or in the Recycling module.