Explore strategies to make inventory counts in Business Central faster and more accurate. Learn about multi-user counting, barcode integration, and automated reconciliation techniques.
Count teams often need their own fields and layout on a count sheet, such as an extra reference column. This article explains how count sheets in Advanced Inventory Count can be tailored through standard Business Central layout and field tools so the printed and on screen sheets fit your process.
Most warehouses hold a mix of lot numbered, serialized, and untracked items. This article explains how Advanced Inventory Count lets you count all of them together on a single count and a single sheet, with the lot and serial detail reconciled automatically wherever it applies.
Sometimes you need a count that includes lot numbered items and nothing else. This article shows how to use the item tracking code filter so only lot tracked items are pulled into your count sheets or your physical inventory journal in Business Central.
Not every warehouse needs to count lot and serial detail. This article explains how lot specific and serial specific tracking determine whether you must record that detail during a count, and how Advanced Inventory Count handles counts in no bin locations that use lot numbers only to show dates.
Teams adopting cycle counting need to know how the next counting period advances. This article explains when to use update next count period in Advanced Inventory Count and how it writes the next counting date back to the item or stockkeeping unit after a count posts.
Advanced warehousing adds a second journal to every count. This article explains how Advanced Inventory Count handles directed put away and pick locations in Business Central, including lot tracking, by populating both journals automatically so you skip the manual warehouse adjustment step.
Confirming that a bin is genuinely empty is part of a thorough count. This article explains the limits of the physical inventory journal for empty bins and how scanner based counting with Advanced Inventory Count lets you flag a completely empty bin as counted.
The basic physical inventory journal posts adjustments but keeps little history. This article explains how Advanced Inventory Count retains count sheet detail, archived counts, and physical inventory ledger entries so you can report on what was counted and track count adherence over time.
Teams want accuracy statistics by item without living in Excel. This article explains the built in difference and discrepancy reporting in Advanced Inventory Count, the statistics it captures, and where the underlying count data lives so you can analyze accuracy in Business Central.