Batching and traceability

Assemblies

Excedding available parts inventory

You are allowed to exceed available inventory counts at a given when building an assembly. This is not recommended. However, it is enabled to ensure that separate duties can be carried out effectively.

Team members assembling units (operations workers) are usually not the same team members (operations supervisors or finance team) responsible for inventory reconciliation. So assembly creation is the one place where the Hardfin platform allows inventory counts to go "negative" in order to ensure that assembly workflows are not blocked by a delayed inventory reconciliation. If the team members on the ground have the parts to do their job, delayed inventory counts should not slow them down.

In the event that negative counts are created, Hardfin automatically tracks them for future reconciliation as soon as new units are transferred to the assembly location.