Use the stock workspaces and enquiries to investigate and find information about your stock items and transactions. You can find information about stock levels and stock movements.
You can amend workspaces to display data to suit your business processes or current task. You can use the filter options and column selector to choose the data that is displayed.
You can use the Workspace Designer to change the content or to create your own workspaces. You can add or remove content and change the available actions, the reports, the columns and how they are displayed, the default filters used for the toolbar filter and so on.
In the desktop application, workspaces can be opened from the menu or from the drop-down list.
In the web browser, workspaces are opened from the drop-down list.
To open from the drop-down list, click the arrow next to the workspace title to open another workspace .
The following workspaces and enquiries are available in Stock Control:
Use this to locate your stock items by using search categories.
Open: Stock Control > Enquiries > Stock Item Search.
You can:
View the details of a stock item.
Select the item (using the check box) and choose Actions > Stock Status Enquiry. The Stock Status Enquiry workspace opens with the list of transactions filtered for the selected item.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
View the transactions for a stock item.
Select the item (using the check box) and choose Actions > View Current Transactions. The Stock Current Transaction Enquiry workspace opens with the list of transactions filtered for the selected item.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Open: Stock Control > Enquiries > Stock Status.
Use this to see an overview of the current status of your stock items, including the quantity in stock, the amount allocated, and the location for a particular stock item.
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the transactions for a specific stock item, select the item (using the check box) and choose Actions > Stock Current Transaction Enquiry. The Stock Current Transaction Enquiry workspace opens with the list of transactions filtered for the selected item.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Open: Stock Control > Enquiries > Current Transactions.
Use this to see information about your current stock item transactions such as movement history and allocation details.
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the stock item details for a specific transaction, select the transaction (using the check box) and choose Actions > Stock Status Enquiry. The Stock Status Account Enquiry workspace opens with the list of stock items filtered for the selected transaction.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one item selected.
Open: Stock Control > Enquiries > Traceable Items.
Use this to see information about all your traceable stock items. You can see details of the batch or serial numbers, quantities, locations, receipts, allocations and attributes.
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the details for a specific traceable item, select the item (using the check box) and choose Actions > Stock Status Enquiry. The Stock Status Enquiry workspace opens with the list of stock items filtered for the selected transaction.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one item selected.
Open: Stock Control > Enquiries > Monthly Trading Figures.
Use this to see the monthly trading history for your stock items and the transactions that make up the monthly trading figures. Your stock items, monthly trading figures and transactions are displayed on three panes.
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to see the sales orders relating to a specific transaction, select the transaction(using the check box) and choose Actions > Stock Current Transaction Enquiry. The Stock Current Transaction Enquiry workspace opens with the list of transactions filtered for the selected item.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
Open: Stock Control > Enquiries > Traceable Transactions.
Use this to see the transaction history for your traceable items.
You can:
Open: Stock Control > Enquiries > Archived Transactions.
Use this to see information about your archived stock transactions such as movement history and transaction details.
On Premise deployments only - You can archive your stock transactions using the Stock Control > Utilities > File Maintenance > Archive stock item History option.
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the stock item details for a specific transaction, select the transaction (using the check box) and choose Actions > Stock Status Enquiry. The Stock Status Enquiry workspace opens with the list of stock items filtered for the selected transaction.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one item selected.
Open: Stock Control > Enquiries > Stock Profitability .
Use this to see the revenue, cost and profit of your stock items and allows you to identify profitable and non-profitable items.
You can:
Open: Stock Control > Enquiries > Who Supplies What.
Use this to see the information about the suppliers of your stock items. You can see all the suppliers of a particular item or all the items supplied by a particular supplier.
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the supplier details for a stock item, select the item (using the check box) and choose Actions > Supplier Account Enquiry. The Supplier Account Enquiry workspace opens with the list of stock items filtered.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one item selected.
Open: Stock Control > Enquiries > Stock Quantity Breakdown.
Use this to see information about whether stock items are allocated to a sales order, allocated to a BOM, a sales order waiting for the selected item, or a BOM allocation producing the selected item.
You can
Open: Stock Control > Enquiries > Allocated Stock.
This shows an overview of your top ten most allocated stock items by warehouse and by bin. The chart in first panel displays a breakdown of your most allocated stock items.
You can:
Open: Workspaces drop-down list.
Use this to see a list of all your stock items.
You can:
Open a related workspace with the content already filtered. For example, if you want to view the transactions for a specific stock item, select the item (using the check box) and choose Actions > Stock Current Transaction Enquiry. The Stock Current Transaction Enquiry workspace opens with the list of transactions filtered for the selected item.
Note: This option is not available if you have more than one row selected.
This enquiry lets you view traceable items in the system. It is only available when you are using Manufacturing.
For more information, see Traceability enquiry (Manufacturing only).
Steps in this task
Traceability enquiry (Manufacturing only)
Reference
Customising workspaces using the Workspace Designer