Manufacture and Production Run

📘 Manufacturing #

Doing manufacturing in the Hive, starts with defining your Formula Template, which acts as the blueprint for production.

• A formula outlines the standard input materials (ingredients or components) required to produce a defined Yield Quantity (e.g., 20kg, 100 units, 50L) of finished product.
• The Yield Qty reflects the total output generated from one full formula cycle.

When it’s time to produce, you’ll create a Batch based on this formula.

• The batch specifies how much product you want to make.
• The system automatically scales all input quantities according to the batch size, using the original formula yield as the reference.

 

✅ Example 1: Cupcakes (Unit-Based Output) #

Product: Chocolate Cupcakes
Formula Yield: 24 cupcakes
Ingredients (per formula):

• 1.5 kg Flour

• 0.5 kg Cocoa Powder

Meaning:
This formula is designed to produce 24 cupcakes. If you want to produce 48 cupcakes, you would enter a batch size of 2. If you only want 12 cupcakes, you enter a batch size of 0.5.

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✅ Example 2: Dough (Weight-Based Output) #

Product: Bread Dough
Formula Yield: 10 kg
Ingredients (per formula):

• 6 kg Flour

• 4 kg Water

Meaning:
This formula is designed to produce 10 kg of dough. If you want to produce 20 kg, enter a batch size of 2. For 5 kg, enter a batch size of 0.5.

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🔁 Summary: Yield vs Batch #

• Formula Yield = “Blueprint” or baseline output of a recipe (per 1 batch).

• Batch Qty = How many times you want to produce the formula.

• System will auto-scale ingredients based on Formula Yield × Batch.

 

Pro Tip – Yield Cost #

“Calculate cost per unit using formula yield”

Tick if this item is sold in units. Cost will be calculated per unit based on the formula’s yield.

✅ What does “Calculate cost per unit using formula yield” mean? #

This setting controls how the cost of a batch is calculated, based on whether you’re producing units (e.g., cupcakes) or bulk weight (e.g., dough in kg).

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🧁 If You’re Producing Units (e.g., Cupcakes) #

• Tick this box.

• The formula yield defines the cost per unit.

• Example:

  • Formula yields 24 cupcakes using R100 worth of ingredients.

  • That means each cupcake costs R100 / 24 = R4.17.

  • If you produce a batch size of 2 (48 cupcakes), total cost = 2 × R100 = R200.

This gives you cost per unit, which is critical if you’re selling individual items.

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🍞 If You’re Producing Bulk (e.g., Dough in kg) #

• Leave this box unticked.

• The entire batch yield is the produced quantity (e.g., 10 kg dough).

• The full formula cost is the cost of the entire batch.

• Example:

  • Formula yields 10 kg of dough using R50 worth of ingredients.

  • If batch size is 0.5, you produce 5 kg, costing R25.

This is useful when the product isn’t sold per unit, but per kg or as input for another process.

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Lets get started on actual example #

The above mentioned items can be imported into your hive. Open the hive and select “Get Template”

Download templates for

• Stock Import – Simple
• Manufacture

Inspect these files and remove items not needed.

Once ready, select the corresponding option, Stock Import – Simple or Manufacture and then click on the “Import” Button to upload these files.

Quick how to video