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.

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

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

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
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