⚠️ Date alignment is not included in your license and is not generally available. Both enabling it and every use of it must be discussed and approved in advance with ABRA Flexi support. Incorrect use may irreversibly change your inventory valuation.
Stock date and issue date
Every item on a stock document contains an issue date (editable by the user) and an actual creation date (stored in the database and not editable by the user). The latter is also called the stock date because it determines the moment when the stock movement actually occurred.
The stock date is not displayed anywhere in the application and cannot be changed manually. The difference between the two dates becomes apparent when documents are entered retroactively.
This function is available only in the desktop application.
ℹ️ Example: If you create a goods receipt today and enter a date one month in the past as the issue date, the document will indeed carry that issue date. However, the goods are received into stock as of today. The inventory works with the actual order in which documents were created, not with how they appear on the surface.
This is why Flexi does not allow you to retroactively issue goods that you did not have in stock on the given date, even if the document has a backdated issue date.
What the function does
You may need to enter a stock document retroactively. In standard mode, the creation date will be equal to the actual creation date, not to the issue date stated on the document. The function always edits documents in the period you are currently switched to in the application.
Date alignment is used to overwrite the actual creation date with the issue date in the document header.
You can find the button to launch it above the stock cards.
⚠️ Warning
Entering a stock movement retroactively and then running date alignment could result in a negative stock balance. If this were to happen, Flexi will not allow you to perform date alignment.
In general, however, you can display items with a negative balance using the button in the top bar.
Run a stock recalculation when you are done
After the process is complete, you need to run a stock recalculation (Tools -> Stock Recalculation) so that the retroactively created movements update the price of subsequent ones.
Aligning the dates changes the order of movements, and therefore also the FIFO links between goods receipts and goods issues. The recalculation restores them according to the new chronology.
💡 Note
Date alignment is not a function available by default. To activate it, you need to contact the sales department (371 124 321; obchodflexi@abra.eu).
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