On 10/03/2013 08:55, Chris Travers wrote:
> Hi everyone;
>
> I have discovered a corner case which leads to onhand numbers being 
> off.  Here is my proposed solution along with the problem description. 
>  In future versions we will want to think of how we categorize 
> inventory, but for now I think the proposed solution below is best.
>
> The current approach is that if you "ship" or "receive" an order 
> inventory gets automatically added to or subtracted from the onhand 
> quantity for the parts.  Similarly the ship column in the order is 
> filled in.  When you go to convert the order to an invoice the program 
> detects whether the ship values are filled in and if they are, then 
> onhand numbers are not adjusted.
>
> This works fine if orders are fully billed *or* if orders go through 
> the full shipping workflow, but if you enter ship numbers in the order 
> screen it does not adjust the inventory at all when this is converted 
> and this is a problem.
>
> My proposed solution is to stop adjusting inventory on shipping and 
> receiving and only do so on invoice.  This would provide a single 
> place where the inventory numbers are guaranteed to change, and this 
> would help.    I would like to further verify that we have proper 
> accounting of goods shipped or received and not invoiced for inventory 
> counting purposes.  We may need to do something regarding reporting 
> here, because this is a behavior change, but currently both approaches 
> have the capacity to create bad numbers, and I'd rather put in the 
> effort to make sure this is working and robust than decline to fix 
> something dangerously broken because it breaks workflows.
>
> What does everyone think?
>
Well, it does break our workflows. However, changing the workflow will 
be a moderate price to pay for not having to run stock checks so frequently.

Nigel

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