Finished Goods Store (Warehousing)

Warehouses can exist for all of your different raw materials and intermediate products as well as your finished goods, ready for despatch. All of the various stockholding points in the system are managed and controlled using individual stock management modules, however they all utilise a common methodology.

All stock entering a warehouse must be receipted against a document. This includes product received from production as well as product received from purchase orders or product returned from customers.

Every item in a warehouse is uniquely identified with a number and labelled. All warehouses support location (or bin) control, and location coding can be very flexible. Locations do not need to be predefined unless it is a business requirement.

All stock leaving a warehouse must be issued against a document. This includes issues to the next stage of production, despatches to a customer or salesman samples.

All movements of stock between locations in a warehouse, all stock adjustments and all issues and receipts are recorded in a transaction file. This transaction file provides a permanent history of every change to the stock levels in the warehouse and provides and invaluable audit record.

If the costing module is installed all warehousing modules provide a stock control report that shows the financial viewpoint of stock movements within a period, including opening stock, issues, receipts, adjustments and closing stock. Variances between expected closing stock and actual are highlighted and can be examined in further detail.

All warehousing modules provide the ability to perform stock takes and stock takes may be performed in a number of manners.

Warehousing can be extended far beyond the basics provided by our system here, and can incorporate RF technologies, picking control, and many other advanced features for managing your supply chain. For more information please see our Supply Chain product offering.