Operations
Operations
The Stock Transaction Processing service supports any kind of operation needed by the business units:
- Synchronize stock
- Used to synchronize the stock quantity. Either as:
- a single synchronization prior to starting the processing of all transactions for the business units (sales, goods received, corrections etc) in case this service should be master
- or as regular synchronization if an external system is master. If so, synchronization could be done whenever the quantity is modified in the external system to keep the quantity updated in close to real-time, or every hour or how often the tenant sees the need.
- Used to synchronize the stock quantity. Either as:
- Stock count
- The business units are counting the actual quantity on the shelves, and the system creates a loss/gain for the delta to the expected stock quantity.
- Stock correction
- A correction done by the business unit in case an item is damaged or for any reason cannot be sold.
- Stock transfers
- A transfer from one business unit to another.
- Purchase orders
- A purchase order to a supplier/wholesaler. This is used to keep track of incoming quantity.
- Order response
- An order response received by the supplier/wholesaler to update any deviations of what is ordered, and what the supplier/wholesaler is able to deliver.
- Goods received / Delivery of goods
- The receival of goods from the supplier/wholesaler. This increases the stock quantity, and the cost of the delivery is used for cost calculations for future transactions. If a reference to the purchase order is included for the received line, the "in order" quantity will be reduced accordingly.
- Receipts (Sales/Returns)
- The sales/returns performed.
- Reservations
- Reservations done for customers, i.e. set the item aside since the customer will fetch it later, and avoid the item being sold to another customer.
- Supplier returns
- Return of items to the supplier
- Deprecations
- Adjusting the cost of the remaining quantity. This is typically done to take the loss up front whether the items will be sold or not, probably for a reduced sales price.