Stock Issue vs Stock Adjustment: Key Differences Explained

🔹 Stock Issue

👉 Stock Issue means when products are taken out of inventory for a specific purpose, such as sales, delivery, or departmental use.

• Usually happens during customer delivery or when transferring to production/service departments.

Examples:

• Issuing 100 units of raw materials to the production department.

• Delivering 50 units of finished goods to a customer order.

📌 Stock Issue = Products officially going out of stock for use or delivery.

🔹 Stock Adjustment

👉 Stock Adjustment is done when the system stock record and the physical stock count don’t match.

• Purpose is to correct inventory data.

• Usually happens due to damage, loss, theft, expiry, or counting mistakes.

Examples:

• System shows 200 units, but physical count is 195 → Adjustment -5.

• 10 units expired → Adjustment -10.

• Found 3 extra units in warehouse → Adjustment +3.

📌 Stock Adjustment = Correcting stock to match actual situation.

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