Overview
Stock Activity helps explain how an item's quantity and value changed. Use it when the current balance differs from the physical stock or the purchasing record you expect.
Review the movement history
- Open the item in the inventory view.
- Choose Stock Activity or its available movement-history action.
- Review the dated entries, quantity changes, sources, and displayed cost information.
- Open the related order, receipt, transfer, count, or production record when you need more context.
Distinguish the movements
A receipt adds goods that arrived. Sales or usage consumes stock. Production consumes components and creates an in-house item. Transfers track movement between units. A count establishes a physical checkpoint, and a correction records a specific change. Similar quantity effects do not make these events interchangeable.
Read the cost information
The cost shown with stock movement depends on its acquisition and allocation information. Review any estimate or missing-cost note instead of assuming the latest supplier price applies to every unit already in stock.
A physical count can establish that stock exists even when the acquisition details are incomplete. Quantity accuracy and cost certainty are separate questions. Do not change a supplier price solely to make an unexplained inventory value look complete.
Additional costs and currency
Allocated additional costs and currency conversion can affect the inventory value independently of the pack price printed on a PO. Compare the order currency, receipts, credits, and landed-cost allocation when investigating a difference.
If the balance appears duplicated
Check repeated receipts, overlapping manual and sales-based usage, duplicate item mappings, and transfer commitments. Also check whether a pack size changed. Trace the source movement before recording a count that hides the issue.
Related: Purchasing costs and currency, Counts, and Substitutions.