Development records
Development is the process of creating a new stock item, in which its recipe and method of preparation are developed.
Development is used to determine cold preparation and cooking wastages, the quantities of ingredients required in a recipe and to calculate the cost price of the final product.
The results of development are used when adding new items to the directory and to the and for creating calculation sheets for compound items.
Development operations are documented by development records. The specification of a development record describes experiments carried out in the course of developing the recipe. A salad, for example, could be prepared three times during development. Each of these three attempts is an . From the results, we can determine the preparation wastage percentages and average quantities for each of the ingredients in the recipe.
Before writing up a development record, the ingredients and the final product must be entered into the directory. Changes are made to the properties of these items on the basis of development results (ingredients, their quantities and preparation wastage and the volume of the final product).
Different statuses can be assigned to a development record depending on what stage it is at in the workflow:
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Registered — illustrated by the
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The Deleted status is automatically applied to a development record when it is deleted. During processing, such documents are marked with the 
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When a development record is created, it has the status Not ready. When the Drawn up or Registered status has been applied, the document becomes read-only and can no longer be edited or deleted. The document can be run on the store once the Registered status has been applied.
Stock items in the specification of the development record also have statuses. These are automatically assigned when the document has been processed by the storekeeping system.
A document specification element can have the following states:
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OK — processed successfully.
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Not enough on hand in store — occurs if the amount of a stock item specified in a development record is greater than the amount of that stock item on hand in the store.
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Cost price loop — cost price of the stock item cannot be calculated because the record documenting the consumption of the stock item links to the record documenting the addition of the stock item and vice versa.