Inventory orders

Boxture never changes stock without an order behind it. When you adjust inventory, to add stock you found or to remove stock that was lost or destroyed, Boxture creates a system order for it:

Order type	Created when	Effect
Add inventory order	You add stock with an inventory adjustment (by hand or through the adjust inventory import).	The stock is received into the location straight away.
Remove inventory order	You remove stock with an inventory adjustment.	The stock is allocated and retired straight away.

You do not create these orders yourself; they are not in the New menu and cannot be imported as orders. They give every adjustment a full audit trail: who did it, when, with which notes, and exactly which units were added or removed.

Finding inventory orders

Inventory orders are listed in Orders like any other order. Filter the Type column on Add inventory order or Remove inventory order to see them. Because they are completed immediately, they do not show in the default view of open orders; remove the state filter to see them.

The order page shows the adjustment's Notes, the lines with product, quantity, status, serial number, lot, expiry date, bin location and container, and the items with the exact inventory involved. The Manual inventory adjustments report gives an overview across orders.

Add inventory orders

When you add stock, Boxture:

1. creates an add inventory order for the adjusted location, with one line per product (or one line per serial number for serialized products), carrying the status, container, bin location, lot and expiry date you entered,
2. confirms it, which creates expected inventory,
3. receives it immediately into the chosen bin location and container, so the stock becomes available,
4. completes the order.

Add inventory orders are never allocated. If Allocation › Auto allocate backorders is on, Boxture then allocates waiting backorders for the added product.

All of this happens in one step: if anything fails, for example because a lot number does not match the product's lot pattern, nothing is added.

Remove inventory orders

When you remove stock, Boxture:

1. creates a remove inventory order with the adjusted location as origin, for the product, status, quantity (or serial numbers), container, bin location, lot and expiry date you entered,
2. confirms it,
3. allocates exactly the matching units: from the given bin location and container, with the given serial number, lot and expiry date. It may use any bin purpose, and it can also take expired units when an expiry date is given,
4. retires the allocated units, so they leave stock, and completes the order.

Remove inventory orders are always allocated automatically, regardless of the Auto allocate setting, and never create backorders. If not all requested units can be allocated, the removal fails ("not fully allocated") and no stock is removed. Check the quantity, bin location and container, and whether the stock is perhaps already allocated to another order.

Stock allocated to orders

Stock that is allocated to an order cannot be removed by an adjustment. Unallocate it from that order first, or remove other units. See Allocation.

Status

Add inventory order	Remove inventory order
concept → confirming → pending → processing → completed, all within the adjustment	concept → confirming → pending → processing → completed, all within the adjustment
Items: expected → received	Items: pending → allocated → retired

See Order lifecycle for the meaning of these states.