From cabinets to lockers to carousels and coils, model your entire crib and watch stock move in real time. MyToolBox turns a wall of drawers into a controlled, self-serve, always-counted inventory — one catalog, every location, down to the bin.
Cutting tools, inserts, gloves, gauges, bar stock — they all live in one catalog, each tagged with a type that tells the system how it behaves and where it shows up.
Every product carries a unique code, description, brand, selling price, preferred supplier and up to four categories. Save it once, then add an image, suppliers and per-location stock.
The type decides where the item turns up — expendables in vending and tool lists, spares on the maintenance pages, instruments in gauging, raw materials in BOMs and costing. One catalog feeds the whole platform.
Categories are reusable labels that power the grid filters, the tool-list builder and reports. Suppliers are the companies you buy from — and a product can link to several of them.
A tool list is a pre-planned picking list — every product and quantity a job needs, built ahead of time so it issues from vending in one go instead of being hunted down one bin at a time.
A vending location is anything on your floor that holds inventory in numbered bins — a cabinet, a locker bank, a carousel, a coil machine, or a plain non-electric shelf. The Build Planner lays them all out, grouped by location, and assigns products to bins.
Open any machine and see a live, color-coded map — down to the individual bin, with product and quantity. Gray is empty, red is below minimum, yellow is getting low, green is well stocked.
Drop below min and the bin turns red and shows up in shortage reporting — your trigger to refill or reorder.
Refill targets and the "how full is this bin" math both run off max, so the map reads true at a glance.
How many units dispense per transaction — a box of 10 issued as a box. Lock it so workers can't change it.
Every time a bin's quantity changes, the system writes a row in the transaction log. This is your answer to "who took the last one, and when?"
The vending app runs on a device next to the machines — a kiosk, tablet or terminal. Two small setup pages tell the system which device controls which cabinet, and every transaction stamps the device it happened on.
Register each device with a name, description and active flag. The name is locked once created — so name it after where it lives.
Pair a device to one or more cabinets. A single kiosk often serves a whole bank of machines.
Because every transaction records its device, a tidy device list means a readable history end to end.
Want the full picture of the worker-facing terminal — login, search, issuing and the hardware behind it? See At the Machine and Hardware & Deployment.
Sensible min and max values on every bin aren't just for the colors. They feed purchasing directly: when stock drops below minimum, the item becomes a reorder candidate with the preferred supplier's cost and part number already on file.
We'll model one of your machines and show stock moving in real time — bin map, transaction log, auto-reorder and all.
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