Material Cards Form

Use the Material Card form to add, edit, and approve inventory material usage transactions. If you use the automated shop floor data collection system, material card transactions are automatically created. If you don’t use the automated system, you’ll need to manually enter material card transactions into ShopPAK via this form.

	Note: Material Cards only deal with inventory item usage. If an employee ‘picks’ stock out of inventory or they ‘return’ unused stock back to inventory, a material card transaction needs to be created so ShopPAK can adjust job costs, as well as, inventory item counts accordingly.

Job costing ‘Direct Material Purchases’ is automatically handled by ShopPAK when materials are received. (Direct material purchases are not placed into inventory. Upon receipt, they go directly to the shop floor). Thus, production employees do not have to account for materials they use if the materials were obtained via a direct material purchase.

Make sure the “Material Cards” tab is active by clicking it with your mouse. All of the actions in this chapter require that the “Material Cards” tab remains selected.