Stock Locations

• Multiple locations with associated profit centres for determining General Ledger postings
• Batch tracked products located by bin within location
• Stock usage statistics for each product by location for user-definable periods
• Minimum, Maximum and reorder levels determined by location

Product Details

• Alpha-numeric product codes up to fifteen characters, short look-up code and indexed short description of 30 characters
• Unlimited "long" description text
• Product types - stocked, non-stocked, service, extra, comment
• 3 product group codings, the first of which determines General Ledger postings
• Alternate obsolete or superseded products
• Separate variable ratio cost, stock, selling and purchase units eg. A "BOX" of eggs may be six units, a "BOX"of wine 12 units
• Optional Batch and serial number tracking including shelf-life and receiving inspection options
• Stock check category for rolling Inventory management
• Delivery details for labelling and freight purposes
• Quantity discount and trade discount schemes
• Product "aliases" for customer branding and special pricing
• Product options lists for sales order processing

Stock Allocation

The following balances are held by location/totalled:

• Book Stock
• Allocated Stock
• Back ordered stock
• Forward ordered stock
• Purchase ordered stock

Over allocation is allowed by parameter setting for non-serialised/batch stock when standard costing is in use

Stock Transactions

• Stock adjustments (including batch status)
• Stock issues
• Stock receipts
• Stock returns
• Stock transfers between locations

Stock Valuation

• Standard Costing
• Average Costing
• FIFO costing

Stock revaluation can be applied to a batch, product or group of products. Stock can be revalued to a new standard cost (if standard costing is in use), to a new exchange rate for receipts in a foreign currency or by a percentage.

Batch Tracking

• Full batch facilities are available for companies operating ISO9000 equivalent quality systems.
• End of shelf-life reporting
• Stock transactions by batch
• Batch references are always preserved
• History of batch movements retained for user-defined period
• Batch-traceable stock can be quarantined

Serial Numbering

• Sixteen character Serial numbers with 30 character narrative for product attachment
• Automatic generation of consecutive sequences
• Duplicates checked by location
• Batch information accessible from the serial number
• Serial Numbered products can be issued in groups

Over allocation is allowed by parameter setting for non-serialised/batch stock when standard costing is in use.

Databases

Global 3000 Stock Control data can be held in a Btrieve format or (to be announced soon) SQL format database for compatibility with industry-standard office automation and data analysis tools.