Nonstock Item

A nonstock item is an inventory item that is not tracked by the system.  Nonstock items are used for billing things like labor, or price adjustments, or a restocking fee.  They can also be used to handle consumable items (like screws, grease, oil,  etc) that have a small value –or are purchased in bulk.  Nonstock items are also sometimes used to handle Warranty and other sales where physical product is not being moved when a sale is made.

Nonstock items are mentioned here mainly because they behave differently than stocking items – especially when it comes to order processing.

Nonstock items are treated as if they are always available and a sales order line for a nonstock item should fully allocate when it is entered.

Order Lines for nonstock items can only be processed using the warehouse shipment and vendor shipment processing options.

A nonstock will fully allocate when a warehouse shipment line is placed for it, so it will normally be available for order completion immediately.  It should output on a picklist if the order is not on hold and if the other order lines are allocated (based on the partial flag).

A sales order line for a nonstock item can be flagged as a Vendor shipment line or as a normal (ie warehouse) line.  It may not be flagged as Special.  If a sales order for a nonstock item is entered as a vendor shipment, the system will NOT create a po requisition for it (we don’t track nonstock items so don’t need to place pos for them).  The vendor ship flag on a nonstock sales order line is used merely to indicate which portion of the order (the vendor ship lines or the warehouse lines), the nonstock item should be invoiced with.  This option allows you to add an item (like the shipping fee from the vendor), to the customer invoice for the shipment.

NonStock Items – An item is either a “stock” or a “nonstock item”.  Stock items are tracked by the system (the quantity and demand for the item is tracked).  Nonstock items are not tracked by the system.  The on hand quantity of a nonstock item is not adjusted by the system.  Nonstock items are also treated as if they are always available).  Nonstock items are used for things like repair and restocking fees, and for warranty items (in some situations).  Generally they work well for items that do not physically exist (like a finance charge), or for things that you may need to use during processing but that you do not wish to track in detail (examples might include small screws, install supplies, grease, documents you may wish to include in a shipment, or other items with a small value.

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