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Open ERP sets a new concept of inventory management. Inventory management is double-entry just like accounting. Lots are not created in stock locations, but is just moved from one location to another. The system includes the suppliers and customers inventories.

Consequently, when you order goods to a supplier, the supplier location receives automatically the corresponding batch. Then, when you receive the goods from the supplier, the batch simply moves from the supplier's location to your location "Yourstock".

The advantages of such a description are:

Greater simplicity

Opposite to usual softwares of inventory management, only one form is necessary for all moves and not one form for each action: receiving goods, sending goods, internal moves, receiving back for after sales purposes, returning goods to suppliers...

Better viewing

This technique enables to estimate the supplier location inventory (how many goods ordered but not received yet, the goods amount...) in a simple manner, or to perform the same kind of inventory evaluation on customers.

Powerful

Open ERP inventory management enables you to process difficult situations like Customer goods are kept on-site and delivered on demand, a part of our goods are stocked on the supplier's site, our warehouses are divided into sections that are dedicated to different purposes...

Moreover, Open ERP inventory management is based on a tree architecture. It is possible to have batches in a given warehouse, or deliver batches in cabinet 3 of the warehouse second floor. Supplier and customer locations can be organised according their geographical locations, according their purchase/sales volumes...