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🔀 Breaking Down Bulk

Breaking down bulk is taking a bulk delivery — a pallet of product — and dividing it into the smaller units people actually buy, repacking and relabelling as you go. This page will guide you through recording that split so it's tracked the same way as making something, with the parent batch linked to every unit that comes out.

Why the split needs tracking​

Receiving is easy to record. Selling is easy to record. The hard part is the step in between, because it changes the shape of the thing — one pallet becomes a hundred units. Unless something deliberately carries the parent's identity onto each of those units, the link is severed the moment you open the pallet, and a unit on the shelf becomes just a unit with no history behind it.

Breaking down bulk keeps that link. This ensures that when you later ask where a retail unit came from, the answer runs back through the original delivery instead of ending at a shrug.

Creating a break-down task​

You record a break-down the same way you record making something — as a task with inputs and outputs.

  • Create a break-down task.
  • Specify what came in — the bulk unit you're breaking down.
  • Specify what goes out — the smaller units, repacked and relabelled, and how many.
  • Confirm the task.

As the task runs, the bulk unit is consumed from your stock and the smaller units appear in its place. You don't adjust the numbers by hand — the stock moves as the split happens.

When you record the break-down, the parent batch is linked to each resulting unit for you. Every split, every repack, every relabel is captured and connected back to where it came from.

Because the link is made at the moment the split happens, each new unit already knows its lineage. This ensures that tracing a unit back to its bulk delivery — and through that to the supplier lot behind it — is something you read out of the record, not something you reconstruct from memory when a question arrives.

Where this fits​

Breaking down bulk sits alongside the rest of your production, tracked the same way as making. Once the smaller units arrive into stock they flow into your warehouse like any other goods, ready to be picked, packed, and shipped against incoming orders. See Production for recipes, runs, and batch traceability from input to output.