Physical Inventories
Best Practices for Collecting Inventory Counts During Business Hours
This document will provide recommendations for clients who must count during business hours. Yellow Dogs best practice for performing a physical inventory is to capture counts outside of business hours, however; Yellow Dog understands that there are ...
How to create a Full Physical Inventory
This document will review the full physical process – from creating and committing to reading the Detailed Physical Inventory Report. Creating a Physical Inventory 1. From within Yellow Dog select Physical Inventories under Physical ...
COGS Troubleshooting
This document was designed to help users pinpoint where and why there are discrepancies in their COGS reporting. Why COGS are inaccurate: If COGS numbers are appearing incorrectly in Yellow Dog one of the following will be the cause: Invoices were ...
My session is in Yellow Dog, but I am unable to pull it into a physical, now what?
Typically, the cause of this issue is that the session was made for the incorrect store, or the date created is more that 30 days from today and the session is listed as expired. Yellow Dog presumes that any session older than 30 days is from a ...
Should I choose Commit or Commit & Re-Calculate?
The most important thing to take into consideration is do you have other stores in your database and are they also committing physicals at the same time. The calculated cost engine that computes and updates the costs, uses a large portion of ...
Troubleshooting: Why Can’t I uncommit my Physical?
If you have committed a physical inventory in error and need to make a change or adjustment to the physical, you will need to uncommit that inventory so that you can make that change. A physical can only be uncommitted within 7 days of being ...
Troubleshooting: How do I start investigating variances in my physical?
The first place to start investigating variances in your physical is an Item History report. This report will provide detailed information regarding when your item was purchased, received, manually adjusted, sold & inventoried. Variances are most ...
Troubleshooting: What should I check if on hands have not updated after I committed my physical?
What should I check if on hands have not updated after I committed my physical? The two most common causes of on hands not updating after committing a physical is that the Physical has not been committed or all active items were not brought into ...
Troubleshooting: What should I do if my sessions do not come over from my PA520 handheld?
In Yellow Dog Inventory, version 363 and up, Count Sessions from the Mobile Apps or YDIMobileCE App will automatically be hidden if the session has not been updated within the last month. If you do not see your session in the available list, and it ...
What should I do about my effective date & time if my POS Sync only sends a sales file once a day?
Effective Date & Time - How should I set it? Reminders: Effective Date & Time: This is the date and time your on-hand counts will be applied to your system as of. In other words, you are telling Yellow Dog, as of X date and time we had X amount of ...
What is Variance Cost in the Physical Inventory Editor?
Q: What is Variance Cost in the Physical Inventory Editor? A: In Yellow Dog the column "Variance Cost" in the physical inventory editor is now "Estimated Variance Cost" . This is the variance quantity multiplied by the last calculated cost for that ...
How do I create a Physical Inventory?
Physical Inventories Yellow Dog Inventory gives you the ability to periodically check actual on-hand counts against the counts as reported by Yellow Dog, and then update Yellow Dog Inventory with new on-hands. This process is called a Physical ...
How do I create a Full Physical Inventory with a PA520?
This video will demonstrate how to create Full Physical Physical Inventory Physical Inventory Yellow Dog Inventory gives you the ability to periodically check actual on-hand counts against the counts as reported by Yellow Dog Inventory, and then ...