Stock areas

Stock areas are the places where your agency stores its inventory. Stock areas can be a variety of places, such as buildings, vehicles, rooms, or closets. Stock areas are used to track all movement of parts in your agency's inventory.

You can divide your stock area into smaller stock locations to help you find parts more easily and track the use of parts more precisely. For example, if a warehouse is defined as a stock area, specific rows or even specific shelves within the warehouse can be defined as stock locations. For each stock area, you can also specify a budget number for tracking costs, a costing method for calculating costs, and audit codes for generating stock audits.

You can specify the parts that are stored in a stock area in various ways. You can assign parts either when you create the stock area record or afterward, using the Stock Area InfoViewer, the Part InfoViewer, or the Create Part Catalog process. You can then create transactions to receive specific quantities of parts into those stock areas, to issue parts to employees, to transfer parts between stock areas, and so on. The number of parts available in each stock area is automatically tracked. You can conduct stock audits to reconcile this number with the actual number of parts on the shelf.