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Inventory Adjustments

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Written by Josh Senior
Updated over 3 weeks ago

Inventory Adjustments allow you to keep stock balances accurate through receipts, stocktakes, waste recording, and transfers.

✍ Types of Adjustments

  • Receipt – New stock arriving

  • Stock Take – Reconciliation counts

  • Transfer – Move stock between locations or sites

  • Waste / Theft / Damage – Manual removals

  • Preparation – Convert ingredients into prepped items

  • Miscellaneous (only available for use on an Inventory Item, not a Bulk option) - This is to balance any prodcuts where errors in counts have occurred

📆 Timing & Approval

  • Adjustments can be backdated (e.g. to match paper count times)

  • Register-based stocktakes must be reviewed and approved in Admin

    • Staff cannot view system quantities or commit adjustments

▶ Workflow Tips:

  • Use Quick Adjustments for single items (from Inventory Item view)

  • Use Inventory Operations for grouped tasks:

    • Mass stock takes

    • Morning prep batches

    • Location-to-location transfers

🌐 Site-to-Site Transfers

  • Only available across sites with inventory properly configured

  • Inventory items must exist at both sending and receiving locations

  • Useful for shared warehousing or regional prep kitchens

📂 Notes

  • Admin must approve all stocktakes submitted via register terminals

  • Transfers do not automatically generate receipt adjustments at the destination; these must be manually confirmed

  • Variance tracking is recorded against each user who submits or approves an adjustment

  • Common mistake: Users forget to change effective time on late stocktake entries, leading to reporting mismatches

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