Negative Inventory Reporting

Most businesses rarely should have negative inventory quantities for their items. There are scenarios where you might sell items into the negative:

• Clerks accidentally selects the wrong item to sell
• Item was received with the incorrect quantity
• A receiver was never processed for the item

There is a report that you can use to locate items with negative inventory quantities. Follow these steps to run a report for items with negative inventory:

1. From the Launchpad, select Inventory → Reports → Inventory Status Report

2. Set Include items if qtys on hand are to Non zero
3. Enter or lookup a location

4. Click the Inventory tab
5. Right click in the filter area and choose customize from the drop-down menu

6. Click the line

7. Click the filter by field and choose Qty on hand from the drop-down

8. Click the filter operator and choose Less than

9. Right-click in the filters area and choose Simplify from the drop-down menu

10. Enter a zero in the Qty on hand less than field

NOTE: You can apply other filters to this report by using the item tab to limit your results to things in a certain category or from a certain primary vendor.

11. Click Preview