Stock

Shelves holding less than nothing

Each of these is a count that was already wrong before the movement that revealed it. The system records the movement rather than refusing it, because the goods came off the shelf whether or not anybody wrote it down — refusing the scan does not put them back, it only declines to know. Walk the shelf, then admin.ts stock:count <code> <account> <counted>.

Running low

Fewer days of pickable cover than the business set, at the last fourteen days' ordering rate. Every smart waving run reports these too. Locations is how many shelves still hold any — one means there is no alternate for the next cart.

Fast movers at the back

A product in the top fifth of demand whose pickable stock is all beyond the front third of the walk, while a shelf near the door stands empty. The put-away suggestion now offers a fast mover the front first; this is what was shelved before it knew. Move one forward on a quiet afternoon — nothing here moves goods by itself.

By building

The same on-hand, per building — each shelf stands in one (db/190), so these add up to the table below to the unit. Promised is not split: an order is picked wherever its goods stand.

How many, and how much is spoken for

On hand is what is physically ours, promised or not. Promised is allocated to a consignment and still on the floor — it has not left, and a picker walking the aisle will find it there. Free is what may still be promised to somebody. The three are summed separately rather than subtracted from one another, so that the day a quarantine shelf exists none of them quietly becomes wrong.

One row per owner, since db/090. A warehouse holds many merchants' goods on the same shelves, and a single line adding two of them together is a number that is true of neither. Osoro (ours) is packaging, pallets and anything this business actually bought.

Where it is

Every account holding a non-zero quantity. An empty shelf is not news and does not appear. The account's first word is its kind, and the database refuses one it does not recognise — a mistyped bins.A1 would otherwise be a location holding real goods that no total counts, and nothing reconciles a warehouse except a person walking it.

What crossed the door

In came from a supplier. Out went to a customer, to damage, or to a counted difference. Damage and shrinkage are accounts with names rather than a smaller number in a bin, which is the whole reason stock is kept as a ledger: five fewer on the shelf is silent, and five at loss.damage is a question somebody can be asked.

What the kinds mean

The first word of every account. Read from the database rather than written into this page, because adding a kind was deliberately made a row and not a migration — consignment stock a merchant owns, goods in transit between hubs, a quarantine cage. Each one that arrives explains itself here without anybody editing this screen.

Expected deliveries

What a merchant told us is coming. Receiving against one is the floor's job — the delivery already says whose goods these are, so nobody needs the merchant list to book them in. What arrived against what was agreed is on every line, and a short delivery stays short in the record after it is closed.

Book goods in

Goods arriving from a merchant, onto the dock or straight to a shelf. Ownership is asked rather than assumed — in a third-party warehouse a merchant's goods stay theirs, and the difference between holding them and owning them is the difference between a storage fee and a purchase.

Batches, and what is going off

A product is tracked by batch only when somebody says so — most goods have no lot number, and a mandatory field would be filled with the date, or 1, for ever. For one that is tracked, a receipt without a lot is refused and picking is first expired, first out with expired stock excluded from what can be promised. Already expired rows stay on this list, at the top, with a negative count: stock that went off in July and is still on a shelf is the row somebody has to act on today.

Tracked by batch

Turning tracking on is not retrospective and cannot be: stock already on the shelves has no batch, and guessing which one a carton received in June belonged to would turn a gap into a false record. Anything standing unbatched has to be counted out and booked back in against a lot before it can be picked for that product.

Move loose goods

Between shelves, or off the dock. Loose only — goods go onto and off a pallet by scanning it, on the handheld, because a typed pallet is a pallet nobody scanned.