# Material ### Overview Materials are the physical components required to create manufactured products (as a consumed resource), and/or the Produced material that arises from a process or sequence of processes such as a finished product. In the TilliT DO setup, the materials are referring to both the consumed and produced objects/items when running the assigned asset.
### Creating a new Material Go to **Settings > Material Definition > Materials > Create** ### **Fields** | Name | Description | | ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Name \* | this is the text name of the material. | | Group \* | sets the Material Group for the material. | | UoM | set the unit of measure for the material | | Active | as an alternative to deleting config, you can enable or disable the material | | Can Produce | this will define if the user can have an order assigned to this item. This also enables filtering the items on the selections; including the functionality to create an order against the defined material. | | Can consume | defines if this material can be used as a material component | | External Id \* | this is the unique material identification (your unique id) | | Barcode Reference | this is the material assigned GTIN or EAN code. | | Default Run Rate | this is the nominal rate of the material running in the bottleneck.defines the order sequence for the material in the item list. | | Display Order | defines the order sequence for the material in the item list. | Click the ***Save and close*** button to finalise. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://help.tillit.cloud/tillit/knowledge-base/setting-up-tillit/material-definition/material.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.