How Inventory Records Work for Inventory Batch Search

Track and monitor inventory with batch-level details across locations. Helps you manage serialized and non-serialized products with enhanced traceability across your supply chain.

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Review the objects that can be used to store the required inventory information.

Stage Requirement Action Example
Model Inventory Information Track a product that is sold or transferred in batches. Specify core product attributes. Create a Product record. Specify batch-related settings and other key product attributes such as Model Name, Product Category Code, Product Code, and whether the product is serialized.

A construction equipment company, Adichie Equipments, creates a product record for each of these products.

  • Compactor
  • Trenching Bucket
Represent a company that you work with, such as a dealer, distributor, vendor, or supplier. Create an Account record. Adichie Equipments creates an account record to represent Ramony Warehousing, a warehousing partner.
Represent an inventory location, such as a warehouse, a plant, or a van. Create a Location record. Specify Inventory Location as true and select the location's type.

Adichie Equipments creates these location records to represent the locations of warehouses where it stores its inventory.

  • Akita Trenching Bucket Warehouse
  • Yamagata Trenching Bucket Warehouse
  • Kyoto Compactor Warehouse
  • Fukushima Compactor Warehouse

Adichie Equipments selects Warehouse as the location type in the four records.

Relate an account with its inventory locations. Create Associated Location records, and specify the account and its related inventory locations.

Adichie Equipments relates the three location records to the Ramony Warehousing account by creating these associated location records.

  • Ramony Warehousing - Akita Trenching Bucket Warehouse
  • Ramony Warehousing - Yamagata Trenching Bucket Warehouse
  • Ramony Warehousing - Kyoto Compactor Warehouse
  • Ramony Warehousing - Fukushima Compactor Warehouse
Create a customer-facing business brand for multiple products.
  • Create a Business Brand record.
  • Specify the business brand in product records.
Adichie Equipments creates a Business Brand record to represent its Heavy Machinery Solution brand. They relate the Compactor and Trenching Bucket product records with the Heavy Machinery Solution business brand record.
Monitor Inventory Stock Track a non-serialized product by batch at a specific location.
  • Create a Product record with Serialized as false.
  • Create a Product Item record related to the Product record. Specify the product's location and its quantity on hand at the location.
  • Create one or more Product Item Batch records to track individual batches.

Adichie Equipments tracks Trenching Bucket inventory at Akita Warehouse in batches.

They create a product item record to represent the stock of trenching buckets at the Akita Trenching Bucket Warehouse location.

They create two product item batch records.

  • Batch Number: TB-0925A, Quantity: 15
  • Batch Number: TB-0925B, Quantity: 10
Track a serialized product by batch at a specific location.
  • Create a Product record with Serialized as true.
  • Create a Product Item record related to the Product Item Batch records. Specify the product's location.
  • Then, for each unit in a batch, create Serialized Product records.

Adichie Equipments must track the compactors that they sell as serialized products by batches. They create a product record for Compactor with Serialized as true.

They create a product item record to represent the stock of compactors at the Kyoto Compactor Warehouse location.

They create a product item batch record: Batch Number: HHK-1005, Quantity: 3

They create three Serialized Product records related to the batch, each with its own serial number.

  • HHK-1005-001
  • HHK-1005-002
  • HHK-1005-003
Search and Monitor Batch Inventory Search for product inventory by batch details across locations. Use the Inventory Batch Search experience. Filter results using product, batch number, location, or status. View batch-level stock information and serialized product details (if applicable).

Adichie Equipments uses Inventory Batch Search to:

  • Find all Trenching Bucket batches stored across warehouses.
  • Filter by Batch Number = TB-0925A to locate a specific lot.
  • Monitor serialized inventory under compactors, Batch HHK-1005