In addition to defining what a product is made of, you can also visualize exactly where it travels. The Supply chain tab within a product's profile provides a linear, visual flowchart tracing the physical movement of that specific item between various facilities in your network.
The Prerequisite: Attaching Products to Links
If you open a product's Supply chain tab and see a message stating, "Please attach products to location links to view the supply chain," it means you have not yet mapped this item to your physical transit routes.
To build the product's supply chain graph, you must first assign the product to the connections between your locations.
Attach Products to Location Links
Navigate to Locations: From your main left-hand navigation menu, click on Locations.
Select a Source Location: Click on the name of the facility where the product originates or is processed.
Open Linked Locations: In the left-hand navigation bar of the location's details panel, click the Linked locations icon.
Define the Transit Route: Click the Supplies to tab, then click the + Add button in the top right corner to define where this location sends its materials.
Attach the Product to the Route:
Select the destination facility from the list.
An Attach products to [Location] panel will immediately open on the right.
Click the + (plus) icon next to the specific product(s) that travel along this route.
A green Relation created message will appear in the bottom left corner to confirm the mapping.
View the Generated Supply Chain
Now that you have mapped the product's movement, you can view the final graph:
Navigate back to the main Products page and click on the data.
Click the Supply chain icon in the product details panel.
Instead of an empty screen, you will now see a visual flowchart illustrating the product's journey between the linked facilities.
