Multi location Stock Control
Overview
Now we are going to manage products at multiple locations . This means you may have many locations in the same warehouse or you may have multiple warehouses. Either way a product can exist at more than one location .
Process
1. Menu Screen : STOCK CONTROL - STK LOCATION
Now we are going to manage products at multiple locations . This means you may have many locations in the same warehouse or you may have multiple warehouses. Either way a product can exist at more than one location .
Process
1. Menu Screen : STOCK CONTROL - STK LOCATION
2. Here you will see "Stock Location" screen.This is a list of all possible stock location.
3. To manage stock at multiple location rather than just one location you need to change a system setting.
3.1 Menu Screen : HELP - SYSTEM SETTINGS
3.2 Here you will see "System Settings" screen.
3.3 You can use the filter section above Setting Code column to filter "A15" and press "Update" . This screen will appear then set "Yes" on the Value column .
Note : once this is set you will not be able to change the stock quantity in the products screen as stock can now exist at multiple locations.
3.1 Menu Screen : HELP - SYSTEM SETTINGS
3.2 Here you will see "System Settings" screen.
3.3 You can use the filter section above Setting Code column to filter "A15" and press "Update" . This screen will appear then set "Yes" on the Value column .
Note : once this is set you will not be able to change the stock quantity in the products screen as stock can now exist at multiple locations.
4. Now select location .
4.1 Menu Screen : STOCK CONTROL – STOCK AT A LOCATION
4.2 Here you will see "Stock at a location" screen and you can see all the products you have and the location.
4.1 Menu Screen : STOCK CONTROL – STOCK AT A LOCATION
4.2 Here you will see "Stock at a location" screen and you can see all the products you have and the location.
4.3 To update products stock at any location simply select the product and location and enter the new quantity or you can add a new product , location and the quantity on Add New Records section and then press "Update" .The quantity of stock is immediacy updated and the cost of stock adjusted .
Stock Taking with multiple batches
Overview
To manage a batch of product this is a further segmentation of a location described above .Set the product to batch of the product screen .
Process
1. Menu Screen :MASTER FILES -PRODUCTS
2. Here you will see "Initial Product Details" screen .
3. Select "Yes" on Batch Item column . This tells the system this product MUST always have a batch number .
4. Menu Screen : STOCK CONTROL - STOCK AT A LOCATION
4.1 To manage multiple batches of the same product then you must always add the batch number to the location for example product+location +batch number and the combination must be unique .
For example location 1-Product xyz -batch1 quantity 100 and location 1-Product abc -batch 2 quantity 50. Now these are two batches possibly at the same location so when a product is picked for a sales order it might be picked from two locations .
4.1 To manage multiple batches of the same product then you must always add the batch number to the location for example product+location +batch number and the combination must be unique .
For example location 1-Product xyz -batch1 quantity 100 and location 1-Product abc -batch 2 quantity 50. Now these are two batches possibly at the same location so when a product is picked for a sales order it might be picked from two locations .