Inventory overview

Infor Public Sector provides tools to manage the parts in your agency's inventory.

Infor Public Sector tracks each part's usage and location in detail, so you can determine which parts your organization stocks, where the parts are located, and how many parts are currently in stock.

Information about each type of part in your inventory is stored in the Infor Public Sector part catalog. Each part record consists of a part number, the part's location in your inventory, and other detailed information. You can use the manufacturer and vendor catalogs to define the manufacturers and vendors that provide your agency's parts and cross-reference their part numbers with your own using the Infor Public Sector manufacturer and vendor catalogs.

Infor Public Sector organizes your inventory by stock areas. Stock areas can be a variety of places, such as buildings, vehicles, rooms, or closets. You can divide your stock areas into smaller stock locations to help you find parts more easily and track the use of parts more precisely.

After you’ve assigned the parts to stock areas, you can track all movement of parts in your inventory using transaction records. Transaction records maintain detailed information on the number of parts on hand in each stock area. Infor Public Sector provides a list of transaction types and the tasks that you can perform with the transactions, such as creating, reversing, and looking up transactions. Also included is a Transaction InfoViewer that you can use to view transaction records.

You can also monitor part usage and costs by performing regular audits of your parts and create lists of parts for work orders and activities.

Note: If your agency has purchased Infor Barcoding, you can also use a barcode scanner to complete inventory tasks in Infor Public Sector, such as receiving and issuing parts or completing an audit. See the Infor Barcoding documentation for details.