Production Planning

In Beanventory we’ve separated your production plan into separate sections (categories, product lines and products) to help you organise your production.

Categories

Product categories refer to broad groupings or classifications of products based on shared characteristics. An example of categories could be “espresso” and “filter”, but you can add as many categories as you like/need.

Hot tip You can create a category specifically for all your white labelled products

Product Lines

A product line consists of a group of related coffee products that share similar characteristics or target specific customer segments. Product lines allow you to offer a range of options within a category to cater to different preferences and needs. A single Product Line is a pipeline of products.

Products

A product is the product (coffee) you sell to your customers. When defining a product you’ll have to consider the ingredients that go into that coffee, availabilities (maybe it’s just for that special customer) and prices.

Creating a Category

When you press the “Create category” button a modal window will open.

Here you can specify:

• a name for the category (like “Espresso”, “Filter” or any other categorisation that makes sense to you)
• the background colour of the category. This is helpful to recognise the category you are looking for when you have many different products.
• where you want the category to be in relation to other categories (by default it will be appended at the end)
• some notes about the category you may want to add

Once you are happy with your category, just press save and it will be available.

Don’t worry, you can edit categories at a later stage if you want to change it (or you have made a mistake when you created it).

Creating a Product Line

Categories bundle together product lines that fit into the categories classification. Once you’ve created a category you’ll be able to create a product line for that category.

When you press the “Create product line” button a modal window will open.

Here you can specify:

• a name for the product line
• where you want the product line to be in relation to other product lines of the same category (by default it will be appended at the end)
• some notes about the product line

Creating a Product