General Inventory Management Module
Articles can be kits or Assemblies to n levels, Services can be purchased and sold, Article Categories are used to simplify reporting and use. Stock Locations are used to manage warehouses to whatever depth of row/rack/bin you like and limit cold items to cold locations. Flexible Stock Takes are used to check stock in the system as can the Low Stock Dashboard. Stock is kept up to date using Record Stock Adjustment. Orders can be picked in batches grouped by carrier using Pick a Batch or as individual orders and then packed using Pack Sales Order into standard cartons, bags or pallets based on the Cartonising process. When shipping stock you can allocate short stock There are a number of different types of Articles that the system can manage
- Stocked items
- Kits and Assemblies (to n levels) including JIT (to 3 levels deep)
- Configurable Products configured at time of sale including stock and services options
- Perishable Items - with expiry dates and batch numbers
- Reverse BOM items (eg meat processing)
- Dual Unit of Measure items (eg meat in KG and Each)
- Serialised items
- Clothing - colour size style
- Manufactured items - both internally and externally manufactured
- Services
- Non Stocked items
- Parent items (holding shared information across a product family)
- Owned by others (eg supplier or customer)
All types of items share
- Can be sold on the Webstore or the Customer Portal and have icons, images and web html held at the article level.
- Are members of Article categories that are hierarchical and can cross across Brands from different suppliers - see Article Categories
- Can be supplied by a single suppler/supplier Factory or multiple suppliers
- Can be linked to one of the Brands for reporting and analysis purposes
- can be imported directly into the system making it much easier to enter large volumes (eg a seasonal range) of all information including cost prices.
- Can be linked to Seasons or have individual availability dates
- Can be linked to Promotions
- Article Status includes Proposed, Active, Run Out and Archived
- Can be linked to MSDS documents or through Suppliers to Certificates (eg: Organic Food Growers Certifications)
- Warrantee durations
- The ability to Add New Fields that are tracked and reported on Articles
Stocked Articles
- Stocked articles have weights, sizes, packing factors (for Cartonising process) shipping UOM and selling UOM
- Can be flagged as requiring special locations (such as freezers) for storage - see Warehouses and Stock Locationss and Warehouse Module
- Have sell rates (calculated over standard or unique number of days), min days of stock levels, PO to delivery days override, useby horizon days, min supplier expiry days override
- Scarce stock can be allocated to Level 1 customers in priority to Level 2 customers
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- with sharing or manual allocations
There are a number of Stock Reports across the system
- Stock Turns report - stock turn values at warehouse, Category and Brand level and down to SKU level
- Stock value reports - value by warehouse and across the system
- Where used recall reports - to find where suppliers batches ended up
- Aging Stock - risk into the bin
- Short stock - risk of runout
- Maximum shipment of Scarce stock - to maximise partial fulfilment of orders eg: end of season runout stock