Inventory is a complement part of the program. It is used for inventorying and overall easy work with the program. You can keep here types of materials and their sources and you can also define the storages where the sources are actually placed. You can define Assemblies in order to save time and simplify working with plans.

There are two different ways how to utilize the Inventory.

• Using Inventory only for pre-defined or virtual materials and their sources and/or parts. If you want to use CutLogic 1D only for optimization purposes and if you keep real materials in different Inventory systems you can use CutLogic 1D Inventory only for pre-defined or virtual materials and/or for pre-defined or virtual sources and parts. When defining plan, you can copy pre-defined sources and/or pre-defined parts from Materials and save time needed for manual entry.
• Using Inventory in standard way. In such case all standard Inventory functions are utilized. All movements of physical material are tracked, you can run physical inventory, etc.

See chapter Opening and Closing the Plan for related consequences.

Inventory consists of these three parts: