How To: Unbuild a Built Item
Scenario
Users may wish to unbuild items for a number of reasons, for example:
- The parent item was built by mistake; or
- Separate components from a built item (that can be sold individually) are needed to fulfil other sales orders; or
- One or more of the parent item's components are needed to enable something else to be built.
Prerequisites
The user must already have a parent item, that has been both created and built in Khaos Control, before they can un-build it (see How To: Create a Build).
The user must maintain the following areas to keep accurate cost of sale figures when unbuilding:
- Keep the correct fractional stock value for all child items within a build.
For example, consider a build item that is a case containing 1,000 individual child items. If you purchased the box from your supplier for £100.00, and the stock value of that box was determined to be £100.00, then each item in the case should have a stock value of 10p defined against it. - The stock value on the child item must be maintained.
Continuing with the above example, if the stock value increased to £150.00 per case of 1,000 (i.e.50% increase) then the the child items stock value needs to be updated by the same proportion (i.e.50%, taking the child item's stock value from 10p to 15p)
Note: This is essential if the unpacked items are going to be repacked into alternative quantities. For example you buy a case of 1,000 that is then re-packed into boxes of 100, 250, 500 etc.
Un-Build a built item
- Open a Stock screen .
- Select a build parent item and, from the
[ Stock | Detail | Relationships ]
tab: - Click on the
button.
- Enter how many items you wish to un-build into the dialog box.
- Press the OK button to confirm (or press Esc to cancel).
Note: If the has been set/defined then when a user un-builds a parent item it's stock value will be used to set the child items stock value based on the value proportion value. So if a build parent was created by 2 child items worth £1 each then its value would be £2. For whatever reason if the parent value is changed, e.g to £3, and then the parent is unbuilt with that value the child items stock value would be updated to £1.50. This assumes the value proportion was 50% each and had not been amended by the user.
Error Messages

For stock to be successfully unbuilt, each child stock item should have a value proportion set against it (the Value Proportion page explains how to set value proportions) and this should total to a value less than the parent's stock value (if set).