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Inventory overview

Inventory is the record of what you physically hold: how much of each part, where it sits, which lot or serial number it carries, and every move that changed it.

It is the layer underneath the BOM. A bill of materials says what a product needs; inventory says what you actually have and where to find it.

50-inventory-list.webpThe inventory list, showing stock, unit price, CPN and status for each part.

What inventory tracks
Stock How many you hold of a part revision
Locations Where those units physically sit, broken down by quantity
Lots Batches received together, so a defective batch can be traced
Serial numbers Individual units, for parts tracked one at a time
Moves Every assignment, relocation, borrow, release, count and scrap

Stock is held against a revision, not a part

This is the first thing to get used to. A part can have several revisions, and stock belongs to a specific one. Ten units of REVA and four of REVB are separate holdings that happen to share a part number.

The part details dialog opens on one revision at a time, and the revision picker at the top switches between them.

Assigned and unassigned

Stock arrives before anyone decides where to put it, so every part revision has two figures:

Both are real stock. The split tells you how much still needs putting away. Assigning is covered in Assign stock.

How inventory reaches a BOM

Parts on a BOM line come from inventory. When you add a part to a bill of materials you are searching this list, and the availability figure in the BOM's Summarized view is read back from here.

That means a shortage shows up in two places at once: as a low figure in inventory, and as a Short label against the demand in the BOM.

The relationship runs both ways

Committing a BOM also creates inventory records for the assemblies and products it numbers, so a released assembly becomes something you can hold stock of.

What you can do from here