Lots and serial numbers, bin locations, guided picking and an immutable movement journal, all in the same ERP as sales, purchasing, point of sale and accounting. And when a lot has to come back, ewws locks it warehouse-wide in one go.
A warehouse is not judged on a good day but on a bad one: during a recall, during an audit, when the stocktake shows a difference. These six decisions are built for that.
Every stock movement lands in a journal that can only grow; the database itself prevents later changes. Each line carries the type, the signed quantity, the balance afterwards and the provenance. Anyone asking how a balance came about reads it rather than reconstructing it.
Articles under traceability cannot be issued without a lot or serial number. The assignment is enforced at every outbound gate, not only at goods receipt. That keeps the chain complete, precisely when things have to move fast.
First to expire, first out: the expiry order applies in shipping, at the register and in the service order alike. Expired or blocked goods do not pass, they are refused.
Quantities sit in bins, not merely in a warehouse. Zone, pick sequence and blocking flags belong to the bin. Bin-to-bin transfers keep their own journal, and the sum of the bins always matches the article balance.
Sales, purchasing, point of sale, service and accounting work on the same stock. A sale at the counter posts immediately, a supplier invoice updates the cost, the valuation reaches the general ledger. No nightly reconciliation between two systems.
Stock levels, suppliers and purchase prices are trade secrets. They sit on your machine, not at a vendor, and can be exported to open formats at any time.
Every step leaves a movement in the same journal. What you see below is not an add-on module but part of the editions from SME upwards.
Receipts are recorded, inspected and put away into bins. Defects go into quarantine instead of into available stock. The cost value comes from the supplier invoice, not from an estimate.
Orders are bundled into pick waves, automatic or guided. The order follows the pick sequence of the bins so the route through the warehouse stays short. A wave survives a restart with its progress intact.
Between two warehouses the goods move in three stages: issue, transit, receipt. While in transit they stay visible and are never counted twice.
The periodic stocktake counts the whole warehouse, the bin cycle count checks individual bins continuously. An ABC analysis makes sure the expensive articles come up more often than the cheap ones.
Reorder and maximum levels per article and warehouse, plus a demand forecast that puts a draft purchase order in front of you. The system calculates, you decide.
Available-to-promise and capable-to-promise compute the free stock including inbound and reservations, with risk bands instead of false precision to the day.
When a lot has to come back, two questions count: where is it still, and where has it already gone. ewws answers both immediately, because register, shipping and service run on the same stock ledger.
Affected lots and serial numbers move into quarantine in a single transaction, across all warehouses and bins. Between detection and lockdown there is no window in which picking could still happen.
The recall lists document, line, article, lot, serial number and quantity across all outbound channels: delivery note, register and service order. You see which customer received which quantity.
Blocked and expired goods are refused at every outbound gate, not only in shipping. Where the lot assignment is missing, the operation aborts instead of quietly taking some lot.
Honestly bounded: the recall shows quantities and paths, not the purchase value of the affected goods. A damage figure in francs is not part of the recall, and we do not claim one.
Stock value is a posting question, not a matter of taste. That is why what gets posted is kept separate from what you additionally want to see.
The general ledger runs the moving average price per article and tenant. That is a method permitted under the Code of Obligations, and the consistency requirement of art. 960 argues against switching it without need.
Alongside it, a FIFO valuation runs as pure reporting, computed from the same movement journal. You see the difference without accounting changing its method.
The variance of a bin cycle count in full mode posts to expense against inventory in the same transaction. The warehouse-wide periodic stocktake counts and documents, but deliberately does not post by itself.
Counter, warehouse and web shop use the same stock, without maintaining article masters twice. When the register sells, the balance drops immediately, and the shop stops showing what is no longer there.
Bills of material draw components from the same stock, finished goods return to it. Requirements planning and reorder points work on one data basis, not on two spreadsheets side by side.
The register posts straight to stock, lot-aware and with an audit-proof daily close.
Eight working worlds on one shared data basis, from master data to governance.
Stock, goods receipt, goods issue and stocktake are part of the scope from the SME edition on.
Download ewws and check the stock ledger against your own articles. The server runs at your place, and the numbers stay there.