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- Hospitality ERP
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- Inventory & property supply
Inventory & property supply
Give storerooms, kitchens and property departments a shared view of what they hold and what they need. Follow reservations, transfers and actual consumption separately, with quantities and costs tied to their original sources.
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Hospitality ERP · Inventory & property supply
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Lot portions
Pending review2
Egg delivery, lot GP-2619LP-60579
380
21 OctHand soap fill, lot MA-2611LP-15052
60
20 OctAdd
Held2
Sparkling water, lot NB-2620LP-64676
600
24 OctPaper cups, lot WM-2607LP-65407
660
14 OctAdd
Released2
Sparkling water, lot NB-2620LP-86193
870
28 OctSparkling water, lot NB-2620LP-80750
590
29 OctAdd
What you can do
Know where the stock is
Inventory positions represent current physical custody by company, property storage location and product. Cost layers retain the associated carrying value. Actual stock events explain receipts, moves, issues and corrections without treating receipt history as another current balance.
Products use their appropriate base units and reviewed pack conversions. Required food tracking preserves lots, identifiable portions and relevant dates. Nonfood items follow their selected tracking policy; the model does not turn every towel or amenity into a kitchen batch.
Reserve supply for the right work
A requirement, reservation and actual stock issue have different purposes. Department or kitchen needs can claim eligible stock against their approved scope. Converting a soft claim to a hard claim replaces its earlier state instead of subtracting the quantity twice.
Current ownership, available quantity and relevant food fitness remain part of eligibility. A new hold blocks execution while preserving the affected claim for reconciliation. Moving reserved goods to another bin does not make them available to a different department.
Move goods without inventing consumption
Warehouse Manager independently authorizes protected stock movement. Warehouse Operator records actual dispatch and destination receipt, including partial transfers or unresolved differences. Same-company transit preserves its departure quantity and carrying until actual arrival or approved resolution.
A transfer to an outlet or housekeeping storeroom remains owned stock. It does not become expense merely because it is nearer the team that will use it. Source and destination must not both retain the same current quantity after a completed move.
| Activity | Quantity and cost meaning |
|---|---|
| Department requirement | Describes the intended need |
| Reservation | Protects eligible remaining stock for that need |
| Transfer | Changes actual custody while retaining ownership |
| Consumption | Relieves the actual used source and its carrying once |
| Unused return | Returns only eligible remaining physical quantity |
Record actual department use
Warehouse Manager independently authorizes the exact department-consumption scope and current eligibility. Kitchen Operator records actual food-service use. Nonfood use identifies its actual user, including the Housekeeping Attendant using room supplies; Warehouse Operator records and executes the approved stock effect.
The consumption event owns its exact stock quantity, carrying relief and selected expense or cost-of-goods treatment. A housekeeping completion, recipe plan or PMS room charge cannot create that physical event by itself.
Food service can share an underlying service reference with a PMS charge while retaining a different economic effect. The stock cost and the PMS revenue are reconciled as related facts, not duplicate charges or a presumed quantity derived from a financial total.
Preserve condition and age
Relevant food has its actual lot and portion identity, manufacture and opening evidence, and effective date rules. Partial opening or release affects only an identified segregated population. Unopened goods retain their original dates and required restrictions.
Kitchen Manager independently approves selected fitness and protected date changes, excluding the relevant preparers, producers and observers. Every applicable hold remains effective until resolved. Transferring, repacking or returning goods does not reset age or automatically release them.
Staged kitchen materials remain inventory before actual production issue. Issued resources belong to exclusive WIP; their unused return consumes only the original issue’s remaining unconsumed and unreserved physical scope at its issue basis.
Count and correct actual remaining sources
Blind counts use a locked physical scope and current identity snapshot. Away transit and issued WIP are reconciled separately. Independent Warehouse Manager review excludes counters and preparers, with additional Finance Manager authority for protected values, discoveries or other required exceptions.
Stale movement, claim or population changes must be resolved before posting a count correction. An expected-zero discovery is reviewed explicitly rather than assigned a fabricated percentage variance.
Customer returns preserve original issue lineage; supplier returns remove current descendant carrying. Corrections follow actual consumed, moved or delivered dependents and retain historical events. Property Stock and Supply and kitchen work make those remaining quantities and responsibilities visible.
What it keeps track of
Data model- Warehouses
- Physical sites may host segregated entity-owned positions; legal owner stays on each position.
- Locations
- Shallow warehouse bins, staging and transit custody locations.
- Lots
- Entity/product lot identity with supplier/production provenance and independently controlled eligibility.
- Lot portions
- Identifiable internal lot populations with actual segregation and source-preserving splits; not independent regulatory lot codes.
- Serials
- Unique individual stock identity; same serial cannot be simultaneously stocked, consumed or delivered twice.
- Inventory positions
- Current owned stock by complete identity and custody state; provenance is not a second balance.
- Stock layers
- Remaining quantity/carrying value with receipt/output/return lineage.
- Stock events
- One immutable group of stock movements and the associated journal effect.
- Stock movements
- Signed position/layer legs; transfers balance quantity and value by SKU.
- Inventory reservations
- Exclusive bounded demand claims through picking and owned transit.
- Stock transfers
- Same-entity transfer with actual dispatch/partial receipt and retained owned transit.
- Stock transfer lines
- Partial transfer quantities retain equal in-transit ownership and cost.
- Count locks
- Time-bounded counted scope protecting all identities, including newly appearing positions.
- Inventory counts
- Blind scoped counts with explicit review and cost before adjustment.
- Count lines
- Observed base quantity and signed variance against an unchanged locked population.
- Returns
- Bounded customer/supplier physical return authorization, separate from commercial credits.
- Return lines
- Exact original commercial/stock scope and actual returned quantities.
- Return dispositions
- Independent actual goods disposition without automatic credit or refund.
- Property departments
- Actual property storeroom, kitchen, housekeeping and outlet cost/custody dimensions.
- Department uses
- Independently authorized actual irreversible food/supply use, separate from stock transfer and PMS charge.
- Department use lines
- Exact source quantity/value slices consumed once by one actual department-use event.
Who uses it
Permissions- Warehouse Operator
- Records actual storage, transfers, counts and approved nonfood department use.
- Warehouse Manager
- Independently controls stock, return, count and department-consumption authorization.
- Kitchen Operator
- Records actual food-service use, with independent Kitchen Manager fitness decisions.
- Accountant
- Reconciles carrying value.
- Finance Manager
- Approves required value changes and financial exceptions.
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