Getting to Know Materials
Sytex gives you everything you need to manage materials, virtual warehouses, operations, and shipments across your projects. This guide explains what each object is and what it's for.
System objects
Virtual warehouse — A location that holds stock. Create as many as you need, even several in the same physical place with separate stock (for example, one for construction and one for maintenance). It's how Sytex mirrors the way your materials are organized in the field.
Material — Defines a material type and its characteristics: code, name, manufacturer, unit of measure, critical stock, and whether it uses a serial number. Serialized materials load one unit per line, and the serial number is required.
Material operation — A transaction that moves stock. Its default model has two states, To confirm and Confirmed, and holds the material to move, the people responsible, the related task, and more. When a user sets it to Confirmed, the stock change is applied.
Its biggest strength is customization: you can create operations from preconfigured templates.
Sytex offers several operation types (entry, movement, return, destruction, site inventory) that you can define by template, along with a default source and destination. You can even set a custom status flow, choosing the number of stages and the name for each.
