The picking list

The "picking list" is the principal form of the inventory control, it's thanks to this one that you can move items from a storage section to another in Tiny ERP. A picking list is made up of several lines which represent the inventory turnovers done on the items. You will always find there, on each line, a source zone and a destination zone.

The picking lists are in menu Stock > Incomings/exports Goods. Sub-menus and sub-menus under of this menu (receipt waiting for sending, treatment for reception,…) are only screened views of this menu.

The picking lists are of three great types: delivery of goods (from a supplier zone to an internal zone), shipment of goods (from an internal zone to a customer zone), and other movements.

The following figure gives an example of picking list.

The transaction state can have several values:

draft: no movement was made nor confirmed for the future.
confirmed: the movement was confirmed and will be done (probably) at the date marked by the field 'Dates Planed'.
assigned: in addition to be confirmed, the goods were reserved (no other movement will be able to move it).
done: the inventory turnover was done at the date "Date".
cancel: the inventory turnover will never be done.

Generally, the user doesn't have to encode the receipts and shipments picking lists of goods because those are automatically generated by the orders forms and the purchases.

The reservation phase of goods (from the confirmed state to an assigned state) is done automatically by the scheduler at the coming time. The user can however force the reservation if it wishes to make the inventory turnover whereas the scheduler didn't require it. If you force an inventory turnover from a zone which doesn't have a product, this zone will fall then into negative.

The stock movings with picking list are the base of the inventory control in Tiny ERP, train to do inventory turnovers manually in order to understand the principle.

The imporant elements of the form of picking list are:

Auto-Picking field: If this one is ticked, the picking is confirmed and automatically finished. Thus, the pickings necessary to supply the machines during productions are in the auto-picking, which avoids a ERP massaging to the person in charge of the production.
'Split Lines in Two' button: This button is used to spread out one or more lines of the picking list in two equivalent lines. You use this button, for example, if you encode the parcels numbers on each picking line and that this picking list is on two parcels. You will be able to thus spread out a line of ten items in a line of three items over the first parcel and a seven line over the second.
'Split & Track Lines' button: This button is used to classify a line of several items in several lines of one or more items with a different serial number.

The "Locations" and "Dest fields. Location" on the form of picking list are optional, they are only used to put the default values of the zones of each line. The only zones taken into account are those indicated in the lines of picking.