Understanding Stock Movement

For a fill, decant, or repack, if you must record a gain or loss, you need to perform a conversion at the item level for the volume of each unit of the packaged product. You also need to set up a conversion factor of .0000001 per one empty package so that the system can convert each subfile line to the unit of measure of the bulk gain or loss item. Set this up at the system level for each empty package unit of measure. For example, set up .0000001 liter (LT) per 1.0 item.

Packaged items contain bulk stock at standard temperature, not ambient temperature, because the temperature of the product in the package cannot be determined.

Record a rebrand when product is mislabeled as it arrives at the depot and needs to be renamed. Alternatively, you might want to record a rebrand if the same product is sold under different names to different customers for marketing reasons. One way to handle this circumstance is to designate one product to be a parent item and the other to be a component of a kit.

The system requires that all volume and weight units of measure have conversions to kilograms (kg) and cubic meters (M3) for calculation purposes.

Additionally, you can account for gains or losses that might occur during a stock movement and record stock movements involving kit items.

When you record stock movements, the system updates these tables:

• Item Ledger File (F4111).

• Bulk Product Transaction File (F41511) if moving a bulk item.

• Gain/Loss Transactions File (F41512) if the system creates a gain or loss.

• Account Ledger (F0911).

• Item Location File (F41021).

• Location Detail Information (F4602) if warehouse control is active for the branch/plant.

  Note: You can record stock movements only to the current accounting period.

Six processing groups exist. They are defined by the processing options that determine how each of the stock movements is processed.