Inventory
Every stock movement in Livestork, purchases, feed consumption, transfers, wastage, is written to an append-only ledger. Your stock balance is always a derived total, never a number that can silently drift out of sync with history.
The inventory ledger
Every movement creates a ledger entry with a transaction type (purchase, usage, adjustment, transfer, return, wastage, or opening balance) and a signed quantity: positive for stock coming in, negative for stock going out. Nothing is ever edited or deleted from the ledger; corrections are made with a new, offsetting entry, so the full history is always reconstructable.
The Inventory Ledger page (Operations > Inventory > Ledger) shows this raw transaction history per item and location. Stock On Hand shows the current derived balances.
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Item master & categories
The Item Master is your catalogue of every inventory item, feed, medication, packaging, spare parts, and more, organised into Categories. Categories drive default GL account assignment for costing purposes and group items in reporting. Units of Measure and Warehouses (with individual Locations inside each) round out the setup.
Movements: transfers, adjustments, stock takes
- Transfers — move stock between locations or warehouses, recorded as a paired debit and credit.
- Adjustments — correct a balance (damage, count discrepancy) with a documented reason.
- Stock Takes — a physical count workflow that reconciles counted quantities against the system balance and posts the variance as an adjustment.
Lot traceability & expiry
Lot Traceability and Lot History let you trace a specific batch of stock (a feed delivery, a medication lot) from receipt through to consumption. Near-Expiry Stock and Expired Inventory reports surface items approaching or past their expiry date, so nothing sits forgotten in a warehouse.
Reorder rules
Set a reorder point per item; the Reorder Report surfaces items that have fallen below it, so procurement can act before you run out, rather than discovering a shortage mid-operation.