Setting company wide settings related to stock.

Feature support

• Support Perishable items 
  • enables expiry dates in the system to be used and tracked for Articles noted as perishable
• Support Manufacturing
  • Enables BOM and manufacturing batches with scalling
• Support Organic Certification
  • Alerts any suppliers of organic products if organic certification is not current
• Enable Sizes
  • for shoes and clothing - enables multiple sizes for each item to be tracked as required for clothing companies

Stock Management

• Shared Article Definitions
• Auto consolidate stock 
  • will affect how stock is added to the system. Where an article is placed into a Warehouses and Stock Locations and has the same expiry date as another item in that location they will be grouped together
• AutoGenerate Batch Number
  • If the system is to generate manufacturing batch numbers
• Don't Track PO for Stock
  • When doing stock adjustments and using expiry dated products and this is off then it is mandatory to select a PO that this stock should be associated with.  This enables the "where used" report.
• Disable Stock Caching
  • For performance reasons where stock levels do not change much or stock levels are not critical then the Caching is faster than checking all sales and purchase orders etc
    • Retail companies - stock levels are rarely used as sales are for items being scanned - so this can be turned off because it is rare to check levels
    • Distribution organisations - orders are typically taken for items to be delivered in the future from a pool of stock so the caching makes sense to provide faster results.

Accounting / Security

• Syncronise the GL with stock movements 
  • is for any organisation that intends to use the our GL
  • For order batches create batch COGS journals is for organisations that use Journal Batches
• Allow un journalled stock adjustments 
  • allows the use on the Article screen to add stock without creating journals
• Let the system maintain average cost for items
  • System updates average cost based on purchase orders / landed costs
• Secure Stock Adjustments
  • Limit stock adjustments to traceable stock so all stock is traceable back to the PO it was received on

Feature Configuration

• Sell Rate Days 
  • is the days to look back in order to calculate average sell rates.
• Manufacuture Expiry days
  • Default number of days for batches
• Max Active sizes 
  • is limit to the number of sizes possible
• Default Lead Days
  • Used if an Article and a supplier do not have lead days entered for planning purchasing
• Article Name Algorithm
  • On the stock Article Screen - button to recalculate the name of the article from parts
    • Non Food = Capacity, Capacity unit, Custom Attributes by priority (Special Type "Item Name Part"), Product Group, Brand, Colour
    • Food = Product Group, Flavour, Brand, Packsize, UOM

Miscellaneous Settings

• Take nightly stock snapshot 
  • a snapshot report is kept and used for reports and forecasting of all stock positions
• Only order items in price list
  • Debtors are limited to purchase only items on their price list
  Don't Track PO for StockWhen doing stock adjustments and using expiry dated products and this is off then it is mandatory to select a PO that this stock should be associated with.  This enables the "where used" report.
• Print Invoices from waybill
  • Invoices are not printed from orders - they are printed from waybills
• Print packing slips from waybill
  • Packing Slips are not printed from orders - they are printed from waybills