How to you adjust consumable quantity in a stockroom?

[tsho]

A stockroom person made a mistake when receiving a PO.   Instead of receiving a consumable with a quantity of 10, he received 20.   The stockroom now has 10 consumables too many.   How do I update the In Stock quantity?

Teresa

[Community Alums · Accepted solution]

Kind of a convoluted way to work around this, but you could do this:

• Make note of the Cost and then set the Cost to 0.
• Consume the 10 extraneous consumables to your user record.
• Reset the Cost to what it was before you set it to 0.
• Delete the 10 consumed consumables you attached to your user record.

You may still have the matter of 20 received items on the Receiving slip on the PO. Is this a concern? I have not looked at how you could fix that.

Ben

[tsho]

I was close.   I did try to consume it to myself.   But I was not able to delete the record once I consumed it.   Looks like I need a sys admin to do that for me?

I am able to delete the consumable while it is In Stock.   Is it a bad thing that I delete the In Stock record and recreate with the correct quantity and cost?

Teresa

[Community Alums]

You could do that, too. Not sure what effect it would have on the virtual receiving slip.  

[tsho]

I will try that then.   We don't do a whole lot with the receiving slip at this point.   We can live with the inflated quantity.

Thank you, Ben!

Teresa