How to treat stocks of same item

[edo2313]

Hi everyone,
Started using Inventree about a month ago and really liking the features it offers compared to other solutions.
The only problem I have is that the items in stock are treated separately if they come from different purchase orders.

I'll give and example:

1. I buy 10 quantity of item A (1 stock item: qty 10)
2. I sell 5 of them (1 stock item: qty 5)
3. I buy another 3 (2 stock items!! qty 5 and qty 3)
4. I need to sell 7 of them
   In the step 4 I can't allocate the stock because when i search for item A I get 2 results and I can't select both of them.
   To resolve this, I guess that I need to merge the 2 stocks, but if I understood correctly, I would lose the history for the item being merged.

I would like to know if there is a way to resolve this, maybe by automatically merge the incoming items with the existing ones when purchasing, while maintaining the history of purchases/sales.

Thanks in advance!

[gunstr]

No, you do not need to merge them - keep them separate for history as you mention. What you should do is to allocate in two steps. First 5 from the first stock item, then you select allocate again and allocate the other two from the second stock item. That leaves you with 1 item left in the second stock item.

I can recommend to alwyas assign batch codes to new stock items (such as the date or as we use year and week). This can be automatically done with a plugin.

[edo2313]

Yeah I know that I can allocate the items in 2 steps, but I was looking to not having to do that if possible. The main reason is that you need to do the same steps twice (select the item, click allocate, select from what you want to allocate, click ok) but the other reason is purely "logical": I don't have 5 A + 3 A, I have 8 A! I don't track the separate batch codes because it would be almost impossible in my case...

Thanks for responding anyway, I guess I need to explore the plugin solution as I initially thought