Inventory

Applies to: LogisticaHQ tenants Roles required: Office users Regulatory references: none

Overview

The inventory Reports show what is physically in the Warehouse right now. Inventory (Analytics > Inventory) lists stock sitting directly in Bins, one row per bin/product; Bulk inventory lists stock on license plates (LPNs). Both grids show product, location, quantity, client, and the blocking status, and both carry a per-row Action menu.

Inventory Blocking

Blocking takes a specific stock row out of circulation without moving it: blocked inventory cannot be allocated by anything — pick tickets, Production orders, restock, tray dispatch, or handheld refill suggestions — until it is unblocked. Use it for quarantine holds, damage, recalls, or pending inspection.

Blocking stock

1. On Inventory or Bulk inventory, open the row's Action menu and choose Block inventory.
2. Reason: required. The dropdown lists your company's Reason Codes from Settings > Business > Reason Codes > Block inventory; if the manual-reason toggle is on there, the field is free text instead.
3. Submit. The row now shows a red Blocked marker with the reason, plus Blocked by and Blocked on (date and time) columns.

Stock that is already allocated refuses to block — the message names how many reservations are standing. Unallocate the pick ticket, Production order or Task first, then block; this guarantees a block never strands a picker mid-document.

Unblocking

The same Action menu shows Unblock inventory on a blocked row. The stock becomes allocatable again immediately.

What a block does — and does not — stop

• Stopped: every Allocation path, including priority allocations, Production work-area consumption, restock into pick faces (a forward bin full of blocked units triggers more replenishment, not none), and tray dispatch (a tray box holding blocked stock refuses to dispatch, naming the reason).
• Allowed: physical moves. Relocating blocked goods — for example into a quarantine bin — is exactly how blocked stock is handled, and the block travels with the stock to its new location. Blocked and available stock of the same product never merge silently: moving blocked units into a location holding available stock (or Receiving fresh stock into a blocked row) is refused with a clear message. Cycle counts are exempt, since counts must record physical reality.

Audit trail

Every block and unblock writes an audit record with the user, date/time, reason, product, quantity and location. Find them in History under operation type Handling, sub-types BlockInventory and UnblockInventory.

Reason Codes setup

Settings > Business > Reason Codes has a Block inventory pair: a comma-separated reason list (for example Quarantine,Damaged,Recall,Inspection) and a toggle to allow manual free-text reasons instead of the list.

Related Features

• Allocation — including what the Allocation error says when stock exists but cannot be used
• Cycle counting