Say where stock actually lives
Racks, bays and vans — so people can find what the system says you own.
What this is for
Knowing you own three sheets is only half of it; somebody still has to find them. Stock locations let you name the places you keep things and record which one a delivery went into.
Step by step
- 1
Set up your locations — the rack, the mezzanine, the van, whatever your shop actually calls them.
- 2
Give a stock size or a parts item a default location if it always lives in the same place.
- 3
When you receive a delivery, each line can say which location it went into. It defaults to the item's usual place.
- 4
Stock movements then carry the location, so you can see where a batch went, not just that it arrived.
Tips & gotchas
- Deliberately simple: no bin barcodes and no per-location reorder points. It answers “where is it” and nothing more.
- A shop that keeps no locations sees none of this — nothing changes until you add your first one.
- Quantity per location is worked out from the movements rather than stored, so it cannot drift out of step with your real stock figure.