Stock transfers

Keep departure and arrival separate

Warehouse Operator confirms the actual departure against the authorized quantity. The movement removes that portion from source storage and carries it into transfer-specific transit custody. Ownership and inventory value continue through the journey. A local bin move can use one atomic paired movement without an artificial transit interval.

A partial departure leaves the unshipped request visible. A partial arrival consumes only the outstanding dispatched portion. Repeated arrival scans do not receive the transfer again, and a header date cannot complete quantities that remain in transit.

Reconcile damage, shortage and returns

Destination Warehouse Operator records the quantity that actually arrived. Damaged or held goods can be acknowledged as received custody while remaining unavailable for ordinary issue. Their later disposition follows the inventory controls for that stock.

Goods still away remain outside floor-count populations and accuracy; transfer evidence reconciles their quantity and value separately. A shortage remains outstanding until evidence explains it. A physical return moves the actual transit portion back to the source. A loss needs a separately reviewed stock adjustment; merely reducing the expected arrival would erase the unresolved stock and its value.

Completion reconciles shipped quantity against received, physically returned and approved lost quantities, with any unshipped remainder explicitly cancelled. An already shipped portion cannot be cancelled as though it never left the source.

Carry the original valuation through the move

Internal movement preserves total owned quantity and value. Cost layers retain their original receipt or opening lineage and FIFO age as they move or split between positions. Current balances include each remaining layer once, without adding both its parent and moved descendant.

Transit value remains carried at the source until arrival and is disclosed separately from destination availability. The transit layer keeps its departure value even if later source receipts change the warehouse average. A transfer therefore cannot create inventory value at both ends. Historical movement costs do not change when a product’s current standard or supplier information is edited later.

Open Transfers gives the operating team its unresolved movement queue. On-Hand by Warehouse shows the stock that can be used at each site, while Inventory Valuation includes owned transit once. Stockout Report uses the eligible available population rather than treating an expected arrival as stock already on the shelf.