Update stock levels in 52ViKING Store Management

52ViKING Store Management has a number of features that can help you with stock management in your stores, including ad-hoc updates of stock levels.

Imagine the following example scenarios where article stock levels must be updated ad-hoc, that is directly where and when it's needed:

A mobility chain has a convenience store at one of their gas and charging stations. In the store, a shop assistant discards four sandwiches that have been on display for the maximum allowed number of hours without being sold. That means that the store's stock level must be adjusted down, possibly with a reason code that explains why the sandwiches were discarded.
A wholesaler representative visits a grocery store. Unfortunately, he arrives an hour later than agreed. As a compensation, the representative gives the grocer a 50-can crate of a popular fruit drink free of charge. The store already has the fruit drink in its inventory, so the grocer decides to sell the 50 extra fruit drinks in the store. That means that the store's stock level must be adjusted up, possibly with a reason code that explains that the fruit drinks were a wholesaler gift.

In Store Management you can easily adjust your store's stock levels up and down on an ad-hoc basis. Shop assistants can even access the particular part of Store Management that's used for adjusting stock levels directly from 52ViKING POS, so they can adjust stock levels from the familiar interfaces of their tills without the need to go to a backoffice computer.

Adjust stock levels up for incoming articles

Open 52ViKING Store Management in a browser, connect to the IP address or hostname of the required 52ViKING store service, and log in.
Navigate to stock in:
1. Expand the menu in the left part of the page
2. Expand Stock maintenance
3. Select Stock in
In the empty field in the Article number column, search for (part of) the name or number of the article that you want to find. Then select the required article.
In the empty row in the Reason code column, select the reason code that best matches the reason why you want to increase the article's stock level.
In the empty field in the Quantity column, specify the number of articles with which to increase the stock level.
In the right side of the line, tap to save the information on the line.
A new empty line appears. If required, you can specify information about other articles whose stock levels must be increased. If you don't want to use the line, simply leave it empty.
When you're ready, tap the Approve button in the top right corner of the page to increase stock levels of the articles that you've specified.
Make sure that you've specified the correct articles, reason codes, and quantities, and then tap Yes in the confirmation dialog.

After you tap Yes, the page is reset and ready for you to enter new lines the next time that you want to increase stock levels.

Adjust stock levels down for outgoing (e.g. discarded) articles

Open 52ViKING Store Management in a browser, connect to the IP address or hostname of the required 52ViKING store service, and log in.
Navigate to stock out:
1. Expand the menu in the left part of the page
2. Expand Stock maintenance
3. Select Stock out
In the empty field in the Article number column, search for (part of) the name or number of the article that you want to find. Then select the required article.
In the empty row in the Reason code column, select the reason code that best matches the reason why you want to decrease the article's stock level.
In the empty field in the Quantity column, specify the number of articles with which to decrease the stock level.
In the right side of the line, tap to save the information on the line.
A new empty line appears. If required, you can specify information about other articles whose stock levels must be decreased. If you don't want to use the line, simply leave it empty.
When you're ready, tap the Approve button in the top right corner of the page to decrease stock levels of the articles that you've specified.
Make sure that you've specified the correct articles, reason codes, and quantities, and then tap Yes in the confirmation dialog.

After you tap Yes, the page is reset and ready for you to enter new lines the next time that you want to decrease stock levels.