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All items in the Stock Control module are managed and grouped by locations and catalogs. "Location" usually means a real place on board or in a office - it can be a room, or a shelf in a room or a box in a shelf or any other organizational unit you can imagine.

 

Locations are defined and managed per site/ship.

 

Beside the locations you can also manage articles in catalogs. Compared to locations a catalog can be seen as a central place for managing article data. Catalogs are available to all sites/ships.

 

Managing Quantities/Inventory

 

Quantities of stock items can be managed only in locations. This includes usage or consumption tracking of stock items, tracking of restocking items and finally using the inventory feature for checking stock quantities. All these features are not available for catalogs. But you may link catalog entries to stock items in a location. This allows comfortable updating of article information in the catalog and updating the new information to all linked stock items (e.g. updating price information or article descriptions).