Hello,

I'm definitely with Susan on the "Paperwork for Stock Transfers" point. I have had several requests from end-users wanting to produce Stock Transfer Requisitions from the system.

The below is an excerpt from a post I made in response to a different issue but still relevant to the "paperwork for stock transfers" issue. Not sure how well it was received by the R&D team but no harm in trying again.

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Because the volume of locations is much smaller, we handle Consignment Sales all within the same company. We create the multiple Consignment Locations but rather than use orders for the consignment orders, we enter them as transfers to the appropriate locations one time.

When the actual sales are determined, we enter these as orders/invoices from the respective consignment locations.

It would be helpful if we could print a Consignment Delivery Note from the Stock Transfer transaction that would essentially show the information in much the same format as an invoice with quantities, descriptions, the selling price (this might be a challenge) and a total. The spec. form would allow the various blurbs about damaged/missing goods etc. and allow for a customer received signature.

Actually, maybe it would be easier to implement as an order processing-like function that doesn't invoice, doesn't commit stock, just creates "Transfer Orders" that allow Order Confirmation-like documents to print as the Consignment Delivery Note and when the "Create Transfer" button is pressed it creates a Stock Transfer From and To the supplied Locations. Once one of these Transfer Orders has been transferred, that's it, it's complete and can't be edited or transferred again. Of course you could copy to a new Transfer Order rather than creating from scratch the next time around. I would guess that one would want to be able to import Transfer Orders.

In our case, some clients use the Physical Inventory Stock Count reports to periodically check the Consignment Location and bill for what ever is missing.

Maybe the above would be useful as a Stock Requisition type process as well so that internal requests for stock could be keyed and printed by those requesting the stock and handed to the stock clerk for processing. Stock clerk would bring up the request/order, pull the stock, edit appropriately and issue/transfer. In this case it seems like security enabling a person to key the request but not "issue/transfer" the stock would be required.

OK - just thinking aloud, sorry to have taken your time if this is way off base.
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While it need not be as extravagant (in the first version :-) as some of the suggestions above, some type of form type paperwork would be nice.

Regards, Pete