Configure material inventory

The

Inventory

tab displays a view of the material lot distribution. Each row represents a sublot. A sublot is an amount of material in the selected lot that is distributed to a container. The container, lot, and label are used by the

FactoryTalk Batch

Server when searching for a material to bind to a recipe. When the recipe is complete, the

FactoryTalk

Batch Server updates the amount to reflect the amount of material either consumed from the container (Addition) or added to the container (Distribution). You configure the container type in the

FactoryTalk Batch

Equipment Editor. [See the

FactoryTalk Batch Equipment Editor User Manual

, publication

BATCH-UM004

for more information.]

When you edit, distribute, or delete a distribution in a material’s inventory, the results also affect the container’s inventory.