Stock: the part leaves when it is fitted.
A stock reconciled at the end of the month is not a stock, it is an estimate. Here the issue is a consequence of the work: the technician declares the part fitted, and stock moves at that instant.
The parts, and what happens to them
Stock
The parts reference: code, description, compatible equipment, quantity on hand, reorder threshold. A central depot, branch stocks, and the stock carried in the service vehicles.
Movements
Receipts from suppliers, issues on fitting, transfers between depots, returns of removed parts. Every movement carries its date, its author and, where there is one, the job that caused it.
Three questions you can finally answer.
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“Do we have the part?”
Before sending a team three hours down a track. Dispatch sees availability at the moment of assigning the job, not when the technician gets back.
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“What moves the most?”
The most-fitted parts, by equipment and by site. That is the basis of a supplier negotiation, and the signal of hardware that is ageing badly.
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“Is this part rebillable?”
The issue is attached to the job, so to the customer and the contract. What is rebillable surfaces on its own in invoicing.
The link to the field is the point. A standalone stock module requires somebody to retype what the technician fitted. That somebody is always the one who is missing, and the stock drifts. See recording on site.
See the platform run on your own cases
An hour is enough: you open a request, assign it, close it and print the signed work order. Then we look at how your operation fits in: your customers, your sites, your contractual deadlines.