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Quantum VS enables you to generate the following 'Stock Control' reports. Click the links for further details:
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 | Discrepancies between the stock balances on the Product Inventory record and the stock balances on the Product record, for all products flagged for 'batch traceability'. 
 | Fix, or simply report on, discrepancies between the stock balances on the Product Inventory record and the stock balances on the Product record, for all products flagged for 'batch traceability'. 
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 | The number of months that current stock balances will satisfy demand. 
 | Identify where a branch is holding too little or too much stock of a particular product. 
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 | Products that currently have a negative stock balance. | Identify products with a negative balance so that they can be investigated and any mistakes in selling, stock management or product set-up corrected. 
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 | Products that have sales below a specified quantity and for which free stock is currently nil. 
 | Identify product lines that are coming to the end of their activity. | 
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 | A list of product lines of which no stock been sold since a specified date. | Monitor branch stock. Example 1: highlight products which are no longer of interest to customers and therefore could be made obsolete. Example 2: work out why products are no longer selling. For example, a product whose selling position within the store changed on a certain date has stopped selling - was this because customers no longer know where they can find the product? 
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 | The value of stock for each product in a specified range. 
 | Identify the value of your current physical stock. | 
| Physical Stock Valuation Update 
 | The value of Physical Stock against each Stock Record and captures this value on the Stock Record. This is useful for determining the value of/updating your current physical stock. 
 | Identify and update the value of your stock so that stock records match the value of physical stock. 
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 | Outstanding items and quantities for a specified Purchase Order or IBT Receipt (i.e. Incoming IBT) on which goods are being received into stock. 
 | Make the remote 'scanner user' - who scans the goods with a bar code scanner when they are received in the warehouse - aware of the outstanding items and quantities for a Purchase Order/Goods Received Note or IBT Receipt being received into stock. 
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 | Which products need to be re-ordered, based on current stock and usage levels. 
 | Identify products which need to be re-ordered. Can be used to identify products that have not been picked up by the Suggested Purchase Ordering report routines (due to their data set up etc.). 
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 | Data captured by hand held Stock Count scanners as part of a Bar Coded Stock Take. 
 | Report on data captured by hand held Stock Count scanners as part of a Bar Coded Stock Take. | 
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 | A list of the products to be counted in a stock take. 
 | Identify stock to be counted during a stock take procedure. 
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 | Stock usage within selected Stock Count Groups. 
 | Identify current levels of demand/stock usage. 
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 | Variance between recorded and actual stock counted as part of a stock take. (Can also show a 'products not counted' report, listing products not yet counted in the stock take - see right for additional/alternative functions.) | Perform the following functions as part of a stock take: 
 
 
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| Average monthly stock usage (over a selected period of months), the value of that stock and the value of any surplus stock. Can also show total issues (stock movements) for selected product group ranges. 
 | Identify average stock usage and compare demand levels and values of current stock. 
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 | All Timber Packs on file within the specified range. | Identify Timber Packs on file for a given date (specifying the pack type/date/status). 
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