Features & Functionality
KC Smart Stock is rich with features that will enhance your warehouse processes and drive efficiencies throughout your business. Seamless integration with your accounts package enables complete control and visibility from the back office to the warehouse.
Smart Stock has been designed and tested in real environments with real users to guarantee a fast, effective and value for money stock control system.

Sales Order Picking
Ability to assign sales orders to devices for picking. Orders can be grouped for wave picking and picking route can be pre-configured in the system.

Stock Taking
Create an 'Immediate' stock take or 'Schedule' a stock take to a device. The stock take can be on 'Specified', 'Random' and now 'Highest Unit Cost' products. The count can either be 'seen' or 'blind'

Location replenishment
Option for requesting replenishment Option for request fulfilment. Send replenishment request through in-built messenger. Print-in transit document. Option for instant replenishment or ability to have an 'in transit' mode

Goods Receipts
Book in stock at various detail levels, including batch/serial/bin locations and match receipt against purchase orders.

Stock adjustments
Inward & Outward adjustments with comments. Rapid entry through tablet device

Purchase & sales orders
Creation of suppliers orders from the tablet. Auto printing option. Auto emailing option
Stock Taking
- Create immediate or scheduled stock takes and assign these to your devices from the control centre
- Rapid entry of counted figures on tablet device
- Specified or Random stock take modes
- Seen (show snapshot qtys on screen) or Blind (don’t show snapshot qty on screen)
- Issue stock takes by ranges of:
> Stock Code
> Category
> By a location
> By bin locations - Options for printing reports on
> Stock Take Lists
> Variances
> Exceptions (with option for costs of variance as well as quantity) - Report instantly on Stock Take status including items counted, variances identified and uncounted items
- Stock take will be auto saved as quantities are entered or scanned
- Stock variance tolerance report to identify all variances over £x / over x units
- Create recount cards from variance reports
Stock Adjustments (+ & -)
- Inward & Outward adjustments with comments
- Rapid entry through tablet device
Location Transfers
- Straight transfers with direct movements
- Optional ability to have an “in transit” mode for goods currently being transported
Location Replenishments
- Option for requesting replenishment
- Option for request fulfilment
- Send replenishment requests through inbuilt messenger
- Print in-transit document
- Option for instant replenishment or ability to have an “in transit” mode
Purchase Order Creation
- Creation of supplier purchase orders from the tablet
- Auto printing option
- Auto emailing option
Goods Receipt
- Book in stock at various detail levels, including batch/serial/bin locations
- Option for printing goods received document
- Match receipt against purchase order
- Manage purchase order by due date, purchase order by product, purchase order by supplier
- Partial receipts - option to keep order open or close order
- Optional creation of barcodes / labels following receipt
Sales Order Creation
- Creation of customer sales orders from the tablet
- Auto printing option
- Auto emailing option
Sales Order Picking
- Ability to assign specific sales orders to devices for picking
- Picking can be done in stages
- Device to show what needs to be picked and from what locations/bin locations, with ability to sort list by stock code, bin location etc.
- Today’s pick list is created based on despatch day as today or despatch day - picking lead time
- Mark a sales order for priority picking to escalate to today’s list with a priority flag
- Generate picking list manually by location group, next x items or by customer
- Assign to user and temporary picking bin or assign to multiple users and picking bins based on bin ranges
- Determine picking based on FIFO if using batch/serial tracking
- If multiple orders have same products, automatically make sure they are grouped in picking list so users only go to bin once
- Create picking routes - configure bin locations in order so picking list will generate based on this route
- Label printing - create labels for dispatch
- Sort by due date - today at top of list
- Print despatch note
Stock Reordering
- Auto suggesting of purchase orders to create based on:
> Negative stock
> Maximum stock level
> By location
> By supplier - Order stock based on historical performance
- Average and seasonal mode available
Printing stock labels
- Various selectable formats of labels
- Being able to print barcodes by :
> Range of stock code
> Range of category
> Scanning of barcodes
> Price changes since last print
> Range of preferred supplier - Options on labels for printing either VAT inclusive and/or exclusive pricing
Stock Enquiries
- Rapid stock enquiries from the tablet • List of available stock and locations
- Stock balance showing stock on hand and stock on purchase order and stock on sales order
- Stock horizon:
> Stock today
> Stock tomorrow
> Stock 1 week
> Stock 1 month - Allocated stock - general or item allocation
- Search by product, by bin, batch or serial number
- Stock movements enquiry
- Scan bin barcode or scan item in bin to show available stock to move
Control Centre
- Stock counts due today report
- Stock counts performed today with variance report to then issue recount order from control centre to device
- Stock shortages report based on when hits reorder level now or forecast reorder level (tomorrow, next week or next month)
- Average stock days graph
- Average stock days by product graph
- Purchase orders overdue report
- Sales dispatched overdue report
- Priority sales order list
- Stock ageing report if using traceability
- Identify stock variances from count, post either all adjustments or partial adjustments if recount required
- In-built messaging system between control centre and tablet devices to raise queries and issue instructions