Learn about tracking all your equipment, warehouses, and inventory in this tutorial. We'll go over how you can set these up, and use them in your day to day farm operations. You'll learn about tracking and servicing your tools, trucks, and tractors, as well as storing, organizing, and using all the inputs that go into a successful agricultural operation.
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- Recording Equipment Usage - Do you want to track the times your equipment gets used? You can see who used it, what they used it for, and it's starting and ending miles/hours. This can even calculate a cost associated with the usage.
- Recording Equipment Service - Your equipment needs maintenance, and you probably want to keep track of what you did, when you did it, and how much it cost you. This feature can be connected to your Inventory, so when you use air filters, spark plugs, and oil from your barn shelves for you equipment tune-ups, you can subtract from your stock on hand and be sure you have enough for the future.
- Warehouses and Bins- Your inventory storage structure can be unique to your operation. Perhaps it's enough for you to know that the item is in a specific barn. Or maybe you get extremely granular with your inventory organization to need to know the item is on a specific shelf of a cabinet. You can define your warehouse and bin structure in any two tiered organization that works best for your needs.
- Tracking Inventory in Lots - You might consider keeping your inventory in lots to separate it by when it was harvested or delivered and when it expires. You can enabled individual inventory items to be tracked in lots, which creates a suballocation of the item into a specific group. This can help you practice a First In, First Out process for using your inventory.
- Inventory Recipes - You might need to combine multiple items in your inventory to make something else. Think how you might combine specific amounts of corn, barley, oats, and vitamins to make a livestock feed, or how you could take your harvested fruit and combine it with other ingredients to make value added sellable products like baked goods or jams. You can save time by creating recipes for those items to take preset amounts from your individual ingredients and combine them to make the finished product.