New Feature: Inventory Cycle Count

Here are the design notes for cycle count workflow:

Find Session Screen: In this screen, we will show all the sessions created in the system with respect to the facility, locations, inventory count item, current status, and created date. We have a search field to filter the records on the basis of the facility, status.

Find Pending Locations: In this screen, we have a table listing all the pending locations whose countings are pending and we can create a session for them. All details regarding the pending locations are listed here with the location, next count date, last count date and days extended for the count, total inventory item and product for this location. We have facets for filtering the records on the basis of the facility, not scanned since and scheduled for next scan. Also, we have a global search at the top of the screen. In Pending Locations screen, we have a Create Session button. To create a session we can either select one or more records from the below list or create a new session by yourself.

In Create Session screen, the basic overview is shown in the "Overview" section and the items are listed in the "Items" section. We can create a new line item by clicking on the 'Add' button and we can also update the item quantity. After completing this, we can proceed with this session and mark it with 'Pending for Review' status from the 'Status' button at the top of the screen or we can simply 'Reject'. 'Reject' status button is available at the top of the screen.

Find Review Screen: In this screen, we have a table listing all the locations pending for the review. All the details regarding the review sessions are listed with the facility, locations and counted inventory item. We have facets for filtering records on the basis of the facility. By clicking any session we can go to its detail screen, where basic details regarding this session are listed in the 'Overview' section and items are listed in the 'Items' section. We can select any number of rows and mark them as 'Accept' or 'Reject'. When these items are marked as 'Accepted' then the variance is created and these are added in the Count Progress report. Only authorized persons can accept or reject the sessions and once the session is accepted it is marked as 'Completed'.

Count Progress Report: In this screen, User can view the advanced counting related analytics with respect to all the 'Completed' status session from Reports Screen. We can filter the records on the basis of the facility and within the date range. We can also see the percentage of the total locations, inventory items counted and errors occurred during the process. Item variance details are listed in the below section in tabular form.

Following changes to the existing data model to support end to end counting process flow:

New entities:

InventoryCount
  inventoryCountId
  uploadedByUserLogin
  facilityId
  statusId
  createdDatetime
InventoryCountItem
  inventoryCountId
  inventoryCountItemSeqId
  inventoryItemId
  itemStatusId
  locationSeqId
  productId
  productIdentifier
  quantity
InventoryCountVariance
  inventoryCountId
  inventoryCountItemSeqId
  inventoryItemId
  productId
  productIdentifier
  locationSeqId
  systemQuantityOnHand
  actualQuantityOnHand
  varianceQuantityOnHand
  totalCost
  actualCost
  costVariance
  actualValue
  totalValue
  valueVariance
  unitCost
**Extended entity:
FacilityLocation
  locked
  lastCountDate
  nextCountDate

**We will prevent the following inbound and outbound transactions within the application if the location is locked for counting:
Inventory Transfer
Issuance against Sales Order
Sales Return receiving
Inventory receive
Issuance and return inventory in manufacturing Job
Kit breakup
Update Location
Physical Variance creation

The locked locations won’t have any bearing on the transactions that are affecting the only ATP of parts i.e. Reserving component for Jobs/Sales Orders etc. as they don’t affect QOH in any way.