Selection Wizard	Stock Maintenance	Add & Delete Data

Costing and Stock Maintenance

Stock maintenance has several purposes in SASSI. Firstly, it is used to maintain a register of essential oils and carrier oils that you have purchased and are available for use.

Secondly, when you have an established list of essential oils and carrier oils, it provides the facility to input the cost of a bottle of oil. The program then calculates a cost per drop for essential oils and a cost per ml for carrier oils.

Thirdly, the cost per measure is used to provide the groundwork for more useful day to day costing facilities. The costings provided by stock maintenance are used in the Create Your Own Blend report to calculate the cost of the blend that has been created.

The purpose of the update essential oil section is to twofold. It is to allow both the user and the selection wizard to keep track of which essential oils are available for use, and also to assist in calculating the cost per drop of available essential oils, and the cost of an oil blend.

The selection wizard calculates the cost per drop based on the size of the bottle entered and the cost of the bottle, based on a ratio of 20 drops of essential oil per ml.

The wizard then uses the information supplied in this section in two ways. On the first page of the selection wizard there is a question asking if you want to use only oils on hand. If you say yes to this question, the selection wizard will use essential oils that have been selected and are in the Oils in Stock section. If you say no to this question, the selection wizard will use all of the essential oils in the program. This distinction was necessary because in some instances the user may want to see a result to be able to make a blend for use with essential oils that are available. In other instances the user may want to know which essential oils to purchase to alleviate a particular ailment. Both results are valid and this option should be used in the wizard according to the desired result.

Where costing information is supplied, it will be used in the create your own blend section to calculate the cost of the essential oil blend. Where no information is available, $0.00 will be used.

The purpose of the update carrier oil section is to allow the user to keep a track of which carrier oils are available for use and also to cost the available carrier oils.

The wizard then uses the information supplied in this section in two ways. On the first page of the selection wizard there is a question asking you to select a carrier oil. The wizard uses this information in the create your own blend section to help calculate an accurate cost of the essential oil blend if information is available.

Also on the first page of the wizard is a question asking you to select how many mls of carrier oil will be used. This enables the wizard to determine how many drops to use in the essential oil blend.