Supplies in the cost

What it is

Once you add supplies to a recipe, their cost enters the recipe cost calculation with its own line. Supplies are 100% variable: they're never allocated as a fixed cost and they always scale with production (per unit) or are fixed to the batch (per batch).

In the Costs tab

In the editor's Costs tab, when the recipe has supplies with a cost, the Total cost breakdown card goes from four to five lines:

• Ingredients
• Supplies ← only appears when its cost is greater than zero
• Labor
• Equipment
• Overhead

The Total cost and the Cost / unit already include supplies. Because supplies are variable, they also count toward the variable cost used for the per-channel break-even.

In the cost breakdown (PDF)

The printable cost breakdown reflects supplies in three places:

• Cost composition — the donut chart splits the cost into five slices, with Supplies as one of them.
• "Supplies / Packaging" table — its own section listing each supply with its quantity and mode (per unit / per batch) and its cost, closing with the Supplies subtotal. It only appears if the recipe has supplies.
• Cost composition (roll-up) — the closing tally includes the Supplies line when its cost is greater than zero, summing toward the Total cost (batch) and the Total cost (unit).

How it's calculated

The engine first computes the batch's sellable units (from units per batch and waste) and then allocates each supply by its mode:

• Per unit → cost = quantity × cost/unit × sellable units
• Per batch → cost = quantity × cost/unit

The sum of all lines is the Supplies cost, which is added to the direct cost (ingredients + supplies + labor + equipment) before overhead.

Numeric example

A bonbon batch with 40 sellable units:

If that recipe also had, say, €18.00 of ingredients, €6.00 of labor, €2.00 of equipment, and €1.80 of overhead, the composition would look like this:

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