Set up Stock Control
You must set up the Stock control module before you can enter your stock items. You must:
- Enter your Stock Control settings. Use these to customise Stock Control to meet your company's needs.
- Set up your product groups. Use these to group your stock items and set up default settings for the product items in each group.
Before you begin
You must have:
- Set your Sage 200 defaults, using Accounting System Manager.
- Created your nominal accounts and specified your default nominal accounts in the Nominal Ledger, if you intend to post stock values to the Nominal Ledger.
- Set up your Sales Ledger and created your customer accounts.
- Set up your Purchase Ledger and created your supplier accounts.
Note: You must have suitable security privileges to perform these activities. See your system administrator for more information.
When setting up Stock control you need to consider the following questions:
- Do I want to manage stock at several locations?
- Do I want to search for stock items using search categories (which removes the need to know stock codes)?
- Do I want to post stock values to the Nominal Ledger?
- Do I want to use batch and/or serial numbered stock items to trace stock from purchase to sale?
- How do I want to calculate the profit made on the sale of stock?
- What units of measure do I want to use for my stock items?
- Do I want to monitor stock items issued internally?
- Do I want to record the precise reason for writing off stock?
- Do I want to measure and track the shipping and handling costs of stock items on purchase orders?
See also
What do you want to do?
Stock locations (warehouses and bins)
Maintain warehouse hierarchy (Manufacturing only)
Maintain analysis codes (Stock Control)
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