What is a Stock Group?


The concept of stock groups has been explained above. Before we consider stock groups you would need to know about stock items. Like Ledgers, Stock items are the primary inventory entity.


You will use stock items while recording their receipts and issues. This is lowest level of information about your inventory. Each item which you want to account for, needs to be created. In fact, you will create a stock ledger account for each item and InventoryPlus calls this account 'Products Details'.


Stock items can be grouped together under 'Groups details' in inventory section tool bar to reflect their classification based on of some commonality. Grouping would enable easy location and reporting of stock items in statements. Hence, items of a particular brand can be grouped together so that you can extract stock of all items of that brand.


For example, create Stock Groups like iPhone, Samsung, LG. Your stock items could then be iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, iPhone 5s, Samsung S5, Samsung S6, LG G3, etc. Classify the Samsung products under the Stock Group Samsung. Now you have ready details of all Samsung products suitably classified. You may even group items as Raw Products and Finished Goods.

You can create sub-groups of Stock Groups for deeper analysis




How to create Stock Group


Name
Give the name of the stock group. Here we wish to create a group Sony.


Under Group
Specify whether it is a primary group or a sub-group of another group. Select from the pop-up list. Here we select Primary from the list.


Stock Maintenance
Select from the list. InventoryPlus gives three Options to control the Inventory. select the stock handling types here.


Stock control is not required- You would normally use this unit for trading. Select the Stock handled by 'None' only when you want to maintain the stock amount not Quantity. Example: Waste cloths. Generating the Bill you should enter the Item Name. It is useful when you want to generate the Bill without handling stock. If this option is selected then system will allow the -ve stock quantity. While generating the sales bill InventoryPlus will not be monitoring the stock quantity and system will accept any  number quantity because stock monitoring/controlling is disabled for this item.


Manage stock by quantity - You would normally use this unit for trading. Select the Stock handled by 'Quantity' only when you want to maintain the stock amount and Quantity. Example: Pen, Books etc,.


Service -This should be used for service bill generations. When this option is selected then system will maintain the transaction amount not stock. If there is any requirements to generate the service related transaction then make sure select this feature.  Ex. In Mobile repair shop then create the group called Mobile service by selecting the service option from Stock maintenance. One more example is in hospital doctor prescription can be created under this group.


Manage stock by Batch/Serial No- Select the Batchwise stock only when you want to handle the Batch number wise stock for an item. Example: Medicine, Computer peripherals etc. While entering the purchase, you should enter the Batch number for each item, While sales entry, after selecting the item system will ask for batch number to deduct the selling quantity as shown below screen shot.



    • If you want to control the stock based on Purchase Invoice number then select this option.
    • If you want to control the stock based on Batch number then select this option
    • If you want to handle the expire date of the item, then select this option. Expire date option available only for stock maintained by Batch


Enable Expire Date Feature
This option enabled only if batch wise stock handling is selected. Selecting this option enables the maintaining the expire date of the Items. Usually this will be selected for Medicines or any other item has expire date. System support to take the expired item report using reporting section. You can keep track of expired item stocks.


Note:

    • Purchase, Sales list will be populated from Accounting details ledger. Make sure configure account ledger before entering the item group.