Who Magento uses for the ERP, white, that the inventory implementation is not supported comfortably. The call of a single item and the inventory check / update are possible, but complicated and flawed.
Magento shows known only the freely available, but not the expected physical inventory of. D.h. Stocks, which are reserved for open orders, are already included in the Magento stock or. deducted. I update the stock now with the visible stock, is distorted in the aforementioned case of the inventory through the inventory implementation.
Regardless, there is a legal obligation (At least in Germany), each inventory item count at least once a year. As evidence of the auditor, Magento was not previously possible.
But now there is the Magento Inventory Manager, also supports an inventory by scanning. The inventory manager does not need SKU, but, any existing product attribute (e.g.. EAN) use for the product identification.
After detecting the product attribute (best scanned barcode) and the counted amount of stock less cash. of reservations in jobs (Order statistics definable) updated in Magento. At the same moment, both a product attribute in the item master filled with the inventory date (to always have access to the date of the last inventory can) and an inventory write-history. The inventory history lists which items when, to which output components, new inventory, Changeset was inventoried by whom. The inventory history is listed in a separate table in the back and can be filtered on the known functions and exported for further processing. A deletion of inventory items is of course not possible. The inventory history also enables the identification of unusual inventory discrepancies and thereby supports targeted initiation of second counts.
To avoid unnecessary multiple counts, The extension also has a comfortable list of all articles with the last inventory date, so that the specific items can be inventoried, which have not yet been verified or not for a long time.
The Magento Inventory Manager is compatible with the CE versions 1.4.1.1, 1.4.2.0 bus 1.7.0.2 and now for only € 49,95 (net) in the new .commercers Shop available.
To install it, copy the app folder in the root directory of Magento. Previously, make sure, that the Magento own compilation is disabled. After copying, Clear cache and possibly even out of the backend- and log in again.
