Every workflow in this chapter ends as movements, so learn to read one and you can audit anything. Open Stock Movements and pick a line:
- Date — when the change belongs, from its document.
- Type — the kind of change, in plain words: a receipt, a delivery, an adjustment, a transfer in or out, a work-order issue, a feeding, and their reversals. Reversals are movements too, written forwards against the original — the ledger is never rewritten, even to correct itself.
- Product and Warehouse — what, and where.
- Quantity — how much moved, signed by direction, always
with its unit of measure:
−40 kgand+40 kgare different sentences from−40 bags, and the ledger never lets you guess which it meant. - Unit cost — the moving average the movement carried. Receipts arrive at their own cost; issues leave at the average standing at that moment.
- Balance after — the running balance this movement left behind. Read a product's movements in order and the column replays its whole life: every rise explained by a receipt, every fall by an issue.
- Source — the document that caused it, linked: follow it and you are standing on the goods receipt, waybill or adjustment itself. A movement that cannot name its source says so plainly rather than inventing one.
- Lot — for lot-tracked products, the batch this movement drew from or added to; an issue spanning three lots is three movements, one per lot.