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bc-version: [all]
domain: scm
keywords: [warehouse-adjustment, calculate-whse-adjustment, adjustment-bin-code, directed-put-away-and-pick, item-journal-line, warehouse-entry]
technologies: [al]
countries: [w1]
application-area: [all]
---

# Reconcile warehouse adjustments with the item ledger

## Description

At a Directed Put-away and Pick location, registering an ordinary warehouse quantity or physical-inventory adjustment and synchronizing it to inventory are distinct steps. The warehouse registration balances quantity through the adjustment bin. An additional ordinary item-journal increase/decrease is not the same as consuming that pending warehouse adjustment.

## Best Practice

After warehouse registration, `"Calculate Whse. Adjustment"` prepares item-journal lines for the intended item/location and batch; `"Item Jnl.-Post Batch"` posts those lines. The calculation derives the reconciliation by location, variant, units of measure, and tracking, marks the lines `"Warehouse Adjustment"`, and accounts for already prepared unposted adjustments.

Reconciliation is separate from source-document posting: warehouse receipts/shipments use their document workflows. Intentional warehouse-only staging is valid when a separately owned reconciliation step completes the process; registration need not perform both phases in one call.

Bin movements need not change total inventory, and warehouse tracking/expiration reclassification has a standard batch path that can also post item-journal entries. Standard reclassification and basic-location item adjustments are not this ordinary advanced-warehouse quantity-adjustment case.

The samples start after warehouse quantity registration and report whether inventory reconciliation completed. The clean sample calculates and posts into an empty dedicated batch; it is not a complete warehouse physical-count workflow.

See sample: [`reconcile-warehouse-adjustments-with-the-item-ledger.good.al`](reconcile-warehouse-adjustments-with-the-item-ledger.good.al).

## Anti Pattern

A manually mirrored ordinary item-journal line does not reconcile a registered advanced-warehouse quantity adjustment. Likewise, a reconciliation function that returns completion after only registration or adjustment calculation leaves any generated adjustment lines unposted. Calculation prepares journal lines; it does not post them.

Invented positive/negative quantities or flipping `"Warehouse Adjustment"` on an arbitrary line does not establish the required relationship to the adjustment-bin balance and tracked quantities. That relationship comes from the calculation step.

See sample: [`reconcile-warehouse-adjustments-with-the-item-ledger.bad.al`](reconcile-warehouse-adjustments-with-the-item-ledger.bad.al).

## References

- [Synchronize adjusted warehouse entries with item ledger entries](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/inventory-how-count-adjust-reclassify#to-synchronize-the-adjusted-warehouse-entries-with-the-related-item-ledger-entries)
- [BaseApp warehouse-adjustment calculation](https://github.com/microsoft/BCApps/blob/8f7a04cb0db8aa96cb97e055c45c61aead49e280/src/Layers/W1/BaseApp/Warehouse/Journal/CalculateWhseAdjustment.Report.al#L298-L384)
- [Warehouse reclassification exception](https://github.com/microsoft/BCApps/blob/8f7a04cb0db8aa96cb97e055c45c61aead49e280/src/Layers/W1/BaseApp/Warehouse/Journal/WhseJnlRegisterBatch.Codeunit.al#L196-L210)