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 (to 3 levels deep)
- Perishables - 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 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 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 Seasonal
Stocked Articles
- Stocked articles have weights, sizes, packing factors (for Cartonising process) shipping and selling UOM.
- Can be flagged as requiring special locations (such as freezers) for storage - see Stock Locations and Warehouse Module
- Scarce stock can be allocated to Level 1 customers in priority to Level 2 customers with sharing or manual allocations.
See Stock Menu for details.