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Stock Process
Manage your stock movements: count parts, scrap parts, adjust quantity, move inventory...
Stock Reorder
Planning methods in IFS Cloud are used to define the way we manage the reordering of parts. It helps to ensure a correct stock management and correct reorder process.
Reorder Calculation
Managing an Order Proposal
Once you have configured your parts, you can use the Create Order Proposal menu to help the customer to define when the parts need to be reordered.

Stock Process
Manage your stock movements: count parts, scrap parts, adjust quantity, move inventory...
- Inventory Locations
  This topic lists the references of IFS Cloud inventory locations.
- Shop Order
  A shop order is the action to build a product or a batch of product in IFS Cloud. It can include consumption of materials and operations: time and tasks. Some products cannot be purchased and must be built.
- Creating a New Material Requisition
  Consume stock for internal use.
- Adding a New Quantity for an Inventory Part
  Change the existing stock: add a new quantity to the stock.
- Removing a Quantity from an Inventory Part
  If for an unknown reason, you have more inventory parts counted in IFS Cloud than in your existing stock, you need to remove a quantity from the stock in IFS Cloud.
- Changing a Part Serial Number
  You can edit the serial number of a part in your stock if you notice it is wrong.
- Counting Reports
  Create a report to count the number of specific items or all items in a location, warehouse or company.
- Scrapping a Part from the Stock
  Remove stock from one location for Scrap reason. This part can be broken, obsolete...
- Moving Inventory Part
  Move stock from one location to another.
- Stock Reorder
  Planning methods in IFS Cloud are used to define the way we manage the reordering of parts. It helps to ensure a correct stock management and correct reorder process.
  - About Planning Methods
    A planning method is a process of stock calculation. When your stock decreases, you need to decide according to your parts or your company which method you want to use to reorder parts.
  - Reorder Calculation
    - Configuring Items
      You must assign the correct planning method to each item to realize the correct reorder calculation.
    - Managing an Order Proposal
      Once you have configured your parts, you can use the Create Order Proposal menu to help the customer to define when the parts need to be reordered.
- Statistics and Reporting

Managing an Order Proposal

Once you have configured your parts, you can use the Create Order Proposal menu to help the customer to define when the parts need to be reordered.

Creating an Order Proposal

Go to the page Create Order Proposal.

Note:
This order proposal take into account quantity in Stock, Reserved, Open Customer Order, Open Purchase Order and their Due Date, Ship Planned Date and Received Planned Date. Details for a part is available on Inventory Part Availability Planning.
Select your Site for this calculation, all others fields can stay by default if you are not expecting a specific calculation.
Click Finish.

Your order proposal has been created.

You can find your proposal into Purchase Requisition Lines.

Changing a Proposal into an Order

Go to Purchase Requisition Lines, you can find your proposal with the status Planned.
You can release the lines that you want to transform in an order: select your lines and click Release.

The status changes to Released.
You can convert the requisition to order:
1. Select your line(s).
2. Click Convert/Transfer.
3. Click Requisition to Order.
  
  Note:
  You can Convert/Transfer several lines only if they are for the same Supplier.
A pane appears.
In this pane:
1. You can create a new order, select Create New or add your proposal to an order, select Add to Order and select an order that exists .
2. To ensure that only one Order is created: select the same Coordinator and Buyer. If they are different, several purchase orders will be created .
  
  Tip:
  We advise you to put your user account in Coordinator and Buyer fields when you perform this step.
3. Click OK.
A dialog appears, you can access your purchase order.
In this purchase order, you can change Quantity, Lines, Planned Delivery Date.