Lots are useful for products you receive in great quantity and for which a lot number can help in reporting, quality controls, or any other info. Lots will help identify a number of pieces having for instance a production fault. It can be useful for a batch production of clothes or food.
Kiu BMP has the capacity to manage lots ensuring compliance with the traceability requirements imposed by the majority of industries.
- Configuration:
You need activate the tracking of lots in the settings. Go to Inventory -> Configuration ‣ Settings, select Track lots or serial numbers
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In order to have an advanced management of the lots, you should also select Manage several warehouses, each one composed by several stock locations. Then click on Apply
- Operation types configuration:
You also need to set up how you will manage lots for each operations. Go to Inventory -> Configuration -> Operation types
For each type (receipts, internal transfers, deliveries,…), you can set if you can create new lot numbers or only use existing lot numbers.
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- Product configuration:
Go into Inventory Control ‣ Products, and open the product of your choice. Click on Edit, and in the Inventory tab, select Tracking by Lots, then click on Save.
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- Manage lots:
- Transfer:
In order to process a transfer of a product tracked by lot, you have to input the lot number(s).
Click on the lot icon :
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A window will pop-up. Click on Add an item and fill in the lot number and the quantity.
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Depending on your operation type configuration, you will be able to fill in new lot numbers, or only use existing ones.
- Inventory adjustment
Inventory of a product tracked by lot can be done in 2 ways:
- Classic inventory by products
- Inventory of a lot
When doing a classic inventory, there is a Serial Number column. If the product has already been assigned with a number, it is already pre-filled.
Click on Add an item if the product has not been inventoried yet. You can easily create lots, just type in a new lot number in the column.
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You can also just do the inventory of a lot. In this case, you will have to fill in the Lot number. You can also create a new lot from here. Just type in the number, a window will pop out to link the number to a product.
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- Lots traceability:
You can check the lot traceability from Inventory ‣ Inventory Control ‣ Lots/Serial Numbers
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