Freeze Inventory

Merchandising and Distribution > Inventory > Physical Inventory and Cycle Count > Bar Code Physical Inventory > Freeze Inventory
Merchandising and Distribution > Inventory > Physical Inventory and Cycle Count > Standard Physical Inventory > Freeze Inventory

Use this program to take a “snapshot” of the current inventory according to the system’s records. The program freezes the counts and piece data and the system uses this information to compare against tag information (physical inventory counts) during the Physical Inventory Update. The Report Detail Frozen Quantities routine runs automatically upon completion of the clear and freeze process.

Important! We strongly recommend you contact STORIS before running this routine so that STORIS personnel can certify data integrity on your system. Otherwise, updates performed by the Update Physical Inventory Results routine may give unexpected results.

Note that if you contact STORIS Support on a weekend, weekend support rates apply.

Once you freeze inventory, you can still process as normal. However, we strongly suggest you not complete any sales orders or receive purchase orders in the time between freezing inventory and performing a physical inventory on your system.

Before you can run the freeze process, you must first resolve all cost exceptions for all warehouses.

If you have active Floats at the location, a warning message appears after you enter the Location. You have the option of continuing or cancelling, but it is strongly recommended that you answer No to Continue and unload the floats prior to running the freeze process.

If WMS is active, this routine is not available for WMS locations.

You can run this routine for all products at the selected location, or you can restrict the product list by

To clear any existing freezes for the parameters defined and skip performing a new freeze, check the box at this field. You can use this function to clear freeze parameters you no longer want or have been completed. If you leave this field blank, the program clears any existing freezes for the parameters defined AND performs a new freeze.

If you check the box at the Perform Store Physical Only field, you inactivate this field.

To include products currently on outgoing delivery/transfer manifests, check the box at this field. Otherwise, leave the box blank. Note that for the selected location, this field does not affect items on incoming manifests.

To verify items included on the delivery manifest, run the Deliveries On Manifests Inquiry.

If you check the box at the Perform Store Physical Only field, you inactivate this field.

To populate the physical inventory with the current inventory counts for the location being processed, check this box. Otherwise, leave the box blank.

This prompt is only active when the processing location is either locator or invisible locator tracked. This prompt is not active when the Perform Clear Only box is checked.

Locator tracked locations populate the physical inventory counts based on product that resides in each individual storage location.

Invisible locator tracked locations populate the physical inventory by the product's group.

When you exit this screen, your current setting (checked or unchecked) is retained for the next time you access the screen.

The three prompts below are mutually exclusive, meaning if you use one, the others become inactive.

Freeze Inventory

(Physical Inventory Freeze)