General Inventory Management Module
There are a number of different types of inventory Articles that the system can manage
- Stocked items
- Kits and Assemblies (to n levels) including JIT
- Perishable items - with expiry dates and batch numbers
- 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)
All types of items can be sold on the Webstore or the Customer Portal and have icons, images and web html held at the article level.
Stocked items can be flagged as requiring special locations (such as freezers) for storage - see Stock Locations
Article categories are hierarchical and can cross across Brands from different suppliers - see Article Categories
Articles 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.
Articles may have alternative suppliers (when using batch control for traceability).
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 to Level 1 customers in priority to Level 2 customers.
Kits that are not stocked provide component picklists to 3 levels deep. See Stock Menu for details.