Stock Visibility

Three ERPNext reports answer the three biggest stock questions you'll ask in a garment factory:

• Where is everything moving? → Stock Ledger
• What do I have right now? → Stock Balance
• What do I have through a production lens? → Production Stock Summary

All three read from the same underlying data — the Stock Ledger Entry table that every Stock Entry, every Purchase Receipt, every Delivery Note, every OLE consumption posts to. The reports just slice it differently.

Getting there

Awesome bar: Cmd/Ctrl + K → type the report name (stock ledger, stock balance, production stock summary) → pick the report.

Click path: Desk → ERPNext → Stock → Reports.

How to think about the three together

The Stock Ledger is the transaction log. Every event, in order, with a posting datetime. If you want to know "what happened to this fabric in the last 24 hours," this is the report.

The Stock Balance is the current state. A snapshot of how much of each item is in each warehouse right now. Useful for planning, reconciliation, and answering "do I have enough?"

The Production Stock Summary is a garment-factory lens on the same data. Materials and WIP visible by Production Batch, by Production Unit, with planning context layered on top. Useful for production planning conversations.

In daily use, most factories live in the Production Stock Summary, drop into Stock Balance for quick lookups, and pull the Stock Ledger when investigating a specific anomaly.

What to do next

Start with Stock Ledger — every other stock report makes more sense once you know what's underneath.