About Substrates
iQuote provides a strong solution for raw materials with the structure you need to create and manage multiple records. For the substrate raw materials, iQuote gathers four different records for maximum flexibility:
Substrates represent various components for estimates and jobs in iQuote, and include basic details, such as size and weight, about the associated materials. When iQuote calculates the engineering for an estimate or job, it examines each specification component type for all the characteristics needed for suppression. The system also considers other relevant information like the substrate groups used to produce such a component.
About Substrate Groups
Substrate groups are records that, when combined, create the substrate raw material. A substrate group combined with a substrate standard (that contains important technical specifications for the substrate) creates a substrate type. The Substrate Type record defines the cost account and the cost and production units.
You can create substrate groups to categorize similar substrates, then set up substrate standards to define information and technical specifications shared by all substrates within the substrate group.
About Substrate Types
You define substrate types by combining substrate groups with substrate standards. The Substrate Type record then defines the cost account and the cost and production units.
About Substrate Lines
Within each substrate type, iQuote records different substrate lines – each with its own configuration for manufacturer, calculation method, etc. iQuote also records the different grammages and formats (for both sheets and rolls) in the substrate line.
Finally, the substrate raw materials define the possible combinations of grammages and formats within the substrate line.
How It Works
Refer to the following diagram for a basic overview of how substrate groups, substrate standards, substrate types, substrate lines, and raw materials relate to each other:
Automatic Substrates In MIS Integrations
If your iQuote system is integrated with other ePS systems, such as Monarch or Radius, rather than manually creating all the substrate raw materials in iQuote based on the inventory items sent by the integrated MIS, iQuote automatically creates the appropriate substrates for each inventory item after you configure a few details.
For example, you can produce a “Cover” specification component type from a few different substrate groups.
In this example, the new substrate type, “Cover,” uses the “Cover board” substrate group and the substrate standard “Uncoated book.”
After saving the new substrate type, you can add substrate lines. For this example, the following grammages/calculation values and size options were created for the “Standard” substrate line:
Next, before you create the raw material, you must select the calculation value options for sizes of both sheets and rolls. Assume both roll sizes are available only in the smaller calculation values (12.9 and 14), while the different sheet sizes include more options, as shown:
As a result, after you create the specified raw materials, iQuote produces 14 new substrates – all belonging to the same substrate line, type, group and standard:
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Line |
Sheet/ Roll |
Size (in) |
Calculation value |
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Cover FSC |
Roll |
39.4 |
12.9 |
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14 |
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55.7 |
12.9 |
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14 |
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Sheet |
27.8 x 19.7 |
15.4 |
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18.1 |
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20.6 |
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39.4 x 27.8 |
15.4 |
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18.1 |
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20.6 |
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55.7 x 39.4 |
14 |
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15.4 |
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18.1 |
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20.6 |