General Inventory Management Module

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 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