Material Categories

Learn about the benefits of categorizing your materials

A classification for your materials (Setup→Materials).

Properly categorizing your materials provides the following:

Makes materials easier to search, as you can type in the category a material to see all materials in that category.
Finer-grained inventory counts and snapshots: you can perform an inventory-count or snapshot for one or more specific categories of materials.
Reporting: some reports allow you to filter based on the category of material.
Streamlining some production tasks by marking a category as an ingredient category. This means when selecting ingredients for your recipes or tank additions, you will only see materials in categories marked as ingredients.
Set a default tax for when purchasing materials in that category. This makes it easier to remember which taxes to apply when setting up a purchase order.
If Brew Ninja is connected to your accounting system, you can link a material category to a specific asset general ledger (GL). e.g., This allows you to use a different GL for Hops than for Malt.

Name	Name of the category value as it will appear in the application.
readonly	This category can not be edited.
Description	Arbitrary description of the value and it's usage.
Is Ingredient?	When selecting ingredients for your recipes or tank additions, you will only see materials in categories marked as ingredients.
Default Taxes: Purchase	The default tax code to use on purchase orders when purchasing materials in this category.

The following category values have specific uses in the system:

Default	The fallback category; materials that do not have a category assigned to them will be assumed to belong to this category.
Packaging	When creating product SKUs and selecting packaging materials, only materials with this category will be visible.
Filtering	When transferring tank contents, there is the option to enter the amount of filtration media consumed. Only materials with the Filtering category will be available to select at this point.