Splitting ingredients
Sometimes an ingredient should be positioned in more than one place in a formula. For example, an ingredient can be added before and after a process.
In the Formula form, you can select a ingredient and split it into two parts, dividing the quantity in any proportion. After the ingredient is split, there is no relationship between the two portions; they are completely independent of each other.
To split an ingredient, use the menu.
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Select
. In this example, the ingredient originally had
a quantity of 45. Now, the quantities are 35 and 10.
The system administrator should use the Formula.Integer_UOM profile attribute to round off unit of measures that result from splitting packaging ingredients.