bcquality/microsoft/knowledge/scm/reconcile-warehouse-adjustments-with-the-item-ledger.md

bc-version	domain	keywords	technologies	countries	application-area
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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.

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.

References

• Synchronize adjusted warehouse entries with item ledger entries
• BaseApp warehouse-adjustment calculation
• Warehouse reclassification exception