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E. VIRTUAL STOCK LEVELS
In UniField, you will often hear about the notions of real stock, virtual stock and available stock.
Understanding these concepts will help you to understand how the system is actually working.
The real stock is the actual stock level currently present in a location (or in several locations).
The virtual stock may be better understood if you think about a future stock.
A formula may help to understand: virtual stock = real stock + pipe line – reservation.
- Products which are in the pipeline are increasing the virtual stock level (this includes for example Validated/ Confirmed PO lines or “Available” Incoming Shipment which will impact the virtual stock of the “Input” or “Cross docking” location). See also section on SYS-INTs in LU-SU4201.
- Products which have already been reserved or are due to leave a location reduce the virtual stock level (PICK, INT, OUT -according to their state- will impact the virtual stock level).
Note that as a movement always has a source and a destination location, all these documents will always impact 2 virtual stock levels in 2 different locations. The impact will be negative for the source location and positive for the destination location.
The virtual stock level gives a “snapshot” of how the stock is likely to evolve in the future, based on the transactions already registered in the system.
Virtual and real stock levels can be seen in the Stock by Location screen (as explained in the next section):
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