Your first batch

A batch is one production run of a product, recorded against an approved recipe. Producing your first batch is where Crown's pieces come together: the recipe you built drives the run, the ingredient lots you received get consumed, and the finished goods you make come out the other end with a complete traceability record. This article walks the whole loop at a high level and points you to the detailed article for each step.

Before you start

Approve a recipe. You can only start a batch against a product that has an approved recipe version. If yours is still a draft, approve it first. See Your first recipe.

The production loop

1. Start the batch

   Open Batches, select New batch, and pick your product. Crown uses the product's latest approved recipe and opens the batch in progress. Full details in Starting a batch.

2. Work the production floor

   Complete each stage's items in order: select the ingredient lots you use, record measurements, mark tasks done. Crown stamps who recorded each step and when. See Recording production steps.

3. Record your output

   When every stage is done, select Enter yield & complete to record how much you produced and how many of each SKU you filled. Crown turns those counts into finished-good lots.

4. Release the finished goods

   Pass quality review and release the batch. Until you release, the finished goods are held back from inventory. See Releasing a batch.

A lighter option: quick batch

If you're logging a run that already happened, doing R&D, or reworking product, you can start a quick batch instead. It skips the stage-by-stage floor and captures the essentials (lots, any critical control point readings, packaging, and yield) on a single form. Full batches build the complete monitoring record and are the normal choice for routine production.

What's next

Start with Starting a batch, then follow the production loop through to Releasing a batch. If something goes off-spec along the way, see Logging a deviation.