Guide 18

Count the things that run out: Inventory

Know which job used the material you already bought

The problem

Fifty sheets went into the van and a dozen are left, but nobody wrote down which job took the rest. So you re-buy what you already own.

What Zeus does

Inventory counts what runs out, logs every unit in and out against a job and the person who recorded it, and reports the movements.

Do this

Start on Price Book

  1. More

    Fifty sheets, now a dozen

    Look at Home

  2. Inventory

    Count the things that run out

    Look at Count Inventory

    Count the things that run out: Inventory, Inventory
  3. Type intoCounted Units On Hand

    Count: forty on the rack

    Look at Save Count

  4. Save Count

    And Zeus tracks it from here

  5. Use

    Receive, Use, or Correct

    Look at Receive

  6. Fill inQuantity · Choose a Job · Neil Chartrand — Interior Repaint

    Five sheets to the Chartrand job

  7. Use on Job

    And forty-eight becomes forty-three, with the history saying why

    Look at on-hand

  8. Back

    System back

    Look at … −1 · Used on job · Nathan Beaudry, recorded by Grant Halloway

  9. Inventory Movements

    Movements by job, member, date

    Count the things that run out: Inventory, Inventory Movements

You now have

Counted, not guessed, so you know which job used what.

On screen, not tapped: down the grouped report, report

All 5 guides in Price Book, inventory & costs