Inspired Technology Systems supports Inventory Feature Key Information to help businesses manage item setup, current inventory, past inventory, pallet listings, allocation rules, date controls, weights, labels, picking details, and warehouse visibility.
Inventory management is more than knowing what is in stock. Food distribution, cold storage, manufacturing, and warehouse operations need item-level details that help control how products are stored, picked, labeled, billed, shipped, and reported.
The Inventory Features area brings many of these controls together inside the ERP and warehouse management system.
Current Inventory gives users access to inventory information that is active in the warehouse.
The Item Master acts as the master list of item codes entered into the system for a customer.
Inventory Units show items currently in stock, manifested, or not yet put away for a customer by pallet.
Bin Inventory shows a particular item in stock separated by bin.
Past Inventory gives users access to historical inventory and invoicing information.
Invoiced Units show units that have been invoiced, including inbound units, outbound units, and services.
Invoiced Pallets show pallets that have been invoiced for services performed.
This helps users review past warehouse and billing activity without relying only on current inventory balances.
Inventory features also include pallet listing visibility.
The Customer Pallets Listing shows all pallets in stock, manifested, or not put away for one particular customer.
The Global Pallets Listing shows pallets currently in stock across all customers.
These views help warehouse and customer service users review pallet-level inventory from both customer-specific and broader warehouse perspectives.
The Item Master contains important setup information that affects inventory, picking, labeling, storage, and reporting.
Item codes can also be referred to as item numbers, product codes, products, items, or codes.
Maintaining clean Item Master information helps keep warehouse activity consistent across receiving, inventory, picking, shipping, and reporting workflows.
The system can maintain Days to Sell By and Days to Use By or Expiration values.
Days to Sell By is the number of days from the pack date to the sell by date.
Days to Use By or Expiration is the number of days from the pack date to the use by or expiration date.
These values can preload Sell By and Use By or Expiration dates for inventory created through manufacturing.
Pack and Size information helps define specific multiples of an item per pack.
This can describe how a product is packed, counted, or represented in warehouse and inventory activity.
Clear pack and size details help users understand how item quantities relate to the physical product being stored or handled.
Crush Factor is used to prioritize the picking sequence of various items for a single order.
A lower crush factor indicates an item is less likely to be crushed by other items stacked on top.
A higher crush factor indicates an item is more likely to be crushed by other items stacking on it.
This allows the system to help guide picking so less crushable products can be picked first, with more crushable products stacked later.
Inventory feature setup can include customer-specific brands, classes of goods, and storage restrictions.
Brands and classes help organize item information.
Storage restrictions can help identify special handling or storage requirements for an item.
For food and warehouse environments, storage restrictions may be important when products need to be separated or handled according to customer, product, or operational requirements.
Allocation sequence controls help determine how pallets are selected for orders.
FIFO allocation uses a first in first out basis.
LIFO allocation uses a last in first out basis.
Other allocation logic can use lot, expiration, sell by, receipt date, bin pick sequence, depth, and internal pallet ID values.
These rules help the system allocate inventory according to the needs of the business and the item.
Bin Pick Sequence supports picking based on the bin location.
The Knowledge Base describes picking order by area, aisle, row, depth, and height.
This helps the warehouse use location information when guiding inventory picking activity.
Inventory feature setup includes weight-related fields such as gross weight, net weight, and catch weight restrictions.
Gross weight represents the total item weight including packaging and is used for shipping purposes.
Net weight is maintained for non-catch or non-set weight items and is used for display on case labels.
Catch weight restrictions can use pounds or kilograms and can include a margin of error above and below the standard weight for a catch weight item.
Label Rounding controls how many decimal places a weight displayed on a case label will show.
A Pick Aid Symbol can be assigned to a SKU to help users identify products during picking.
When assigned, the symbol can print on case labels, product labels, and pick tickets, and can also appear on scan guns during picking.
Voice Pick can display a voice picking code on case labels when enabled, helping warehouse workers validate picks during voice-directed workflows.
Ti-Hi helps determine how boxes or cases are stacked on a pallet.
Ti represents how many cases can fit on a single row of a pallet.
Hi represents how high boxes or cases can be stacked before crushing becomes an issue.
Velocity tracks item movement at the inventory level, including putaways, pulls, and picks.
Velocity information can help users keep track of which items move or sell the most.
Inventory Feature Key Information is useful for food distribution software, food manufacturing ERP software, and cold storage warehouse software environments where inventory detail must be accurate and controlled.
Food and warehouse businesses often manage product dates, pallet details, weight data, picking rules, labels, storage requirements, and item movement.
These inventory feature controls help connect that information to daily warehouse activity.
Inventory Feature Key Information is part of the larger ERP and WMS software workflow for item master setup, inventory visibility, pallet control, picking, labeling, weights, dates, and warehouse reporting.
By keeping inventory feature information inside the system, Inspired Technology Systems helps businesses manage warehouse inventory with better structure and visibility.
You can also review our Inventory Feature Key Information documentation for additional setup and workflow details.