Every column, lens, and field on the master calendar — how Required and Open are figured, what the WIP, Production, and Orders lenses show, the day breakdown, and shift hours.
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Two recipes cook down the same base sauce, a spice blend feeds three products, and a retail order lands for Friday. Before you commit the floor you want one read: for every recipe this week, is it covered or short — and if a day runs its stock negative, what's eating it? The master calendar answers that on a single week-grid, one row per recipe, with a color on each that tells you where you stand. This page names every column, lens, and field, and where each number is figured. Open it at Master calendar.
Kitchen+The grid holds one row per recipe, grouped by department, with a column for each of the seven days in the shown week. Three columns on the left summarize the week and carry over no matter which lens you're in.
Beneath every recipe, a Total row sums each day's scheduled amount by unit — un for finished products, LB for components.
Three buttons in the top corner — WIP, Production, and Orders — change what each day cell reports. Switching keeps your week and department in place.
The default lens. Each day cell projects that recipe's stock balance for the day: green when it holds positive, red when the day runs it negative, faint when it's zero. An exp badge under a cell flags WIP set to expire that day. A day already in the past shows what was actually produced, in faint text, instead of a projection.
Opens an editable sub-row under each recipe — one per plan that makes it. The sub-row carries the plan number and its own required and open for that recipe, then a number field for each day. Type an amount to schedule it; the field shows the batch count it works out to as N bt, and saves on its own when you move off it — a Saved stamp confirms it. A cell locks when its day is already begun on the floor (Locked — production run already started) or in the past.
Editing a Production cell schedules it
Typing into a Production-lens cell is the same act as scheduling from the plan itself — the day lands on that plan's schedule and flows to the floor. The full flow is in Schedule a plan into runs.
Adds two summary columns — Open orders (the open sales-order units the recipe's product still owes) and Stock (its finished stock on hand) — and turns each day cell into three lines: the amount scheduled that day (blue badge), the open orders it must cover (amber badge), and the running balance of stock plus scheduled minus orders (green when positive, red when negative). The Total row gains matching open-orders and stock totals.
Selecting any day cell opens a side panel — the full supply-and-demand ledger for one recipe on one date. Its sections:
The Shift hours button opens a modal for the working hours you expect from each department, day by day — the capacity side of the picture.
Shift hours are advisory
Hours inform planning but never move stock and never block a schedule. Nothing on the calendar waits on them.
Access is set per role, under Production in the permission catalog: