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
• 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