Physical Inventory: Analyses
Use
A physical inventory history is maintained which enables you to track the progress of the physical inventory and carry out subsequent reports.
Features
The physical inventory history is updated for each physical inventory item and can contain some of the following information:
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Organization level of the physical inventory (for example, site, storage location, stock type)·
Physical inventory status (for example, counted, recounted, adjusted)·
Dates-
Count date-
Posting date (of difference posting)-
Date of last physical inventory·
Number of the article document of the difference posting·
Personnel data-
counted by-
posted by·
Quantity and value information (for example, count quantity, book quantity, value of the difference)A number of reports are available to give you an overview of the current situation, or past physical inventories. These include:
Total overview in which you can display physical inventory data for one or more sites. Using a number of criteria you can limit your selection to a particular stock type or physical inventory status.
This provides a brief overview of the physical inventory data for the current period and previous period.
This lists all physical inventory documents that have not yet been archived.
As is usual with data relating to goods movements, physical inventory documents must be reorganized at regular intervals. How often this is necessary depends on your system configuration and the organizational requirements of your company. You cannot usually access archived documents on-line. You can, however, display them using archiving reports. Your IT department can provide the data necessary for this.
You can use a special information structure to monitor ongoing physical inventory, as this structure is updated as soon as count results are entered.
This gives you an overview of the number of considerable differences there are before you make the posting. In this case you can also use the early warning system.