View and manage inventory

View and manage the items in inventory from the Inventory tab.

The Inventory tab displays the current item inventory in the MES system. Items are stored in storage entities—also referred to as locations—and, optionally, by specified lots. The MES inventory system allows you to:

• Track an item’s remaining quantity in inventory, grade, status, and expiry date and time

• Record the receiving of inventory to a location

• Transfer items from one location to another

• Scrap inventory

• Reclassify an item's grade, state, and expiry date and time

• Split an inventory record to assign a quantity of an item's inventory other values for one or more of the following: lot number, location, item grade, item status

• Combine a quantity of an item's inventory from multiple records into one new record

Each inventory record in the grid reflects the storage of some quantity of a unique combination of item, lot number, sublot number (if they are being used), and location. In that way, an item can be stored in multiple lots, in multiple locations, and in various grades or states in each lot and/or location. Each combination of these fields will generate its own inventory record.

Action buttons

Details

Display details for the selected inventory record in the Details panel.

Receive

Receive items for the selected inventory record.

Transfer

Transfer items from the selected inventory record to another location.

Scrap

Scrap items from the selected inventory record.

Reclassify

Reclassify items in the selected inventory record.

Split

Split the selected inventory record to change the following properties for a quantity of an item's inventory: location, lot number, sublot number, item grade, item status, and expiry date and time.

Combine

Combine a quantity of the selected item's inventory from multiple records into one new record.

Refresh

Refresh the grid.

Help

Open the Inventory form help.

For a list of the workflows that are triggered by the action buttons, see Work flows triggered by inventory action buttons.

Filter control

Select the Filter button to open the Filter panel. The panel includes properties by which to filter the inventory in the grid. See Filter the inventory grid.

Inventory grid

The inventory records for the applied filter are displayed in this grid. The grid appears with the action panel by default. When the panel is closed, the grid expands and occupies the space where the panel appears.

Action panel

The contents of the action panel changes, depending on what task is currently being performed in the tab.

• If an inventory record is selected, its details properties appear here, for viewing only.

• When receiving, transferring, scrapping, or reclassifying items for the selected inventory record, its properties appear here for editing.

• When filtering the inventory records in the grid, the filter properties appear here.