Reporting Explained: Cost Reporting- Inventory Items with No COGS Account

Reporting Explained: Cost Reporting- Inventory Items with No COGS Account

Business Need: This report is helpful for F&B customers using COGS for tracking inventory. It allows clients to see which inventory items are not mapped to a COGS account. This is useful for troubleshooting variances in COGS cost reporting and locating inventory items missed in mapping. For more information on setting up COGS please see What are COGS?

How it works: Inventory Items with No COGS Accounts reporting pulls all the inventory items that have not been mapped to a COGS account. This report offers an expansive number of filters for sorting and searching for items to be mapped.

Generating the Report: No special filters are needed to run this report.

Go to the Reports section in Yellow Dog 


  1. Select Standard Reports
  2. Open the folder titled F&B
  3. Open the folder titled Cost Reporting
  4. Select “Inventory Items with No COGS Accounts”
  5. Select which stores and levels you would like to run the report for.
  6. Generate Report.






Reading the Report 


1-2. Shows the filters used to produce the reports data.

3. Change columns, sorting and grouping: This allows us to manipulate the view of the data within the report

4. Store Name: Store item is available in.

5. Level: Level assigned to item.

6. Vendor: Vendor assigned to item.

7. Sku: Yellow Dog Sku number assigned to item.

8. Item: Item description.

9. This row allows you to save, export, print and close the current report.





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