Recording Stock Movements

Every change to stock is written to a movement — an append-only ledger showing what moved, when, how much and why. Stock → Movements shows the combined history.

Movement types

Recording a manual adjustment

Use one after a stocktake, for spoilage, for damage found late, or to correct a data-entry error.

1. Open the material.
2. Record the corrected quantity — the difference becomes the movement.
3. Choose the movement type that explains it.
4. Add a reference and a note — this is what makes the ledger worth having.

Write the reason down. A movement labelled STOCKTAKE-07 — two boards found checked and unusable tells you something months later; a bare adjustment of −3.5 tells you nothing and looks like an error.