Display the Material Flow view
- Last UpdatedApr 17, 2025
- 2 minute read
The Material Flow view displays the details of material movements that occurred within a time range that you specify.
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Material Flow view shows movements that AVEVA Production Management automatically records, movements that authorized users add manually, and balance adjustments that authorized users add manually.
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The Results grid shows Inventory records for the selected location in the plant hierarchy. You can specify the grouping of these records.
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Each record in Material Flow view displays which material moved, the quantity that moved, and whether the material moved into or out of a piece of equipment.
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A negative quantity of material in a record indicates that the material was removed from the equipment, and a positive quantity of material in a record indicates that the material was added to the equipment. The Balance column shows the resulting balance of the material after the movement occurred.
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The Material Flow view includes custom columns that display Contributor information.
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The Material Flow view accepts work centers and work units for source or destination equipment locations.
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The Material Flow view includes custom fields for both routine movements and ad-hoc movements.
Note It is no longer possible to confirm or unconfirm records in this view. This functionality is removed because it is made obsolete by the development of the Inventory reprocessing and finalization features. During reprocessing, the values of the confirmation fields (Confirmed, ConfirmedBy, ConfirmedDateTime) would be overridden and deleted by reprocessing the records.
For information on the grid's displayed fields as shown in the following screenshot, see Standard fields in the grid.

To display the Material Flow view
The location that you select and the filters that you apply determine the data that displays in the grid and charts.
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Switch to the Inventory module.
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In the Location hierarchy, select the equipment to view the associated Inventory records in the results grid and the Chart panel.
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In the View Selection pane, select MaterialFlow.
