• Automated stock management features such as automatic reordering and replenishment ensures that stock levels can be maintained at optimum levels.
• Stock Reservations allow stock to be reserved to satisfy manufacturing stock requirements dictated by scheduled production, customer demand, and backorders.
• Multiple prices can be attached to stock items to allow automatic price and cost adjustments when stock is received, aged, transferred, repackaged and sold ensuring stock can be held at the right cost and sold at the correct price.
• Stock can be held and tracked at multiple branches, warehouses, and bins.
• Automatic stock transfers allows branch stock levels to be automatically managed centrally.

Abel Inventory Management operates in complete unison with the rest of the Abel system, including Manufacturing, Sales and Order Processing, and Purchasing.  It takes inputs from these functions in order to produce a near-optimum solution in order to satisfy customers, suppliers, as well as stock control and service level objectives.

The features provided in Abel Stock and Inventory Management include:

• Multiple stock level capability (for example style, size, color) to five (5) levels with hierarchy control and with an integrated pricing level capability
• Support of multiple branch, warehouse and franchise management.  This provides the capability of “stock–at–branch” control
• Automatic product transfers, including automatic application of transfer pricing and multiple transfer pricing methods (as required)
• Shipping Inbound and Outbound, including visible stock-in-transit, arrival dates and automatic reservation of in-transit stock against orders
• Stock, stock level and stock location visibility wherever it is needed, such as in sales and dispatch.  This includes the capability to integrate with point-of-sale systems
• Inventory reorders, replenishments, and manufacturing requirements according to standard defined inventory management rules
• Back order and stock reservations according to event driven rules
• Importation of vendor inventory information including catalogue, stock relationships, pricing and discount options
• Product internal usage including intercompany and currency handling
• Multiple suppliers, including automatic application of a nominated preferred supplier
• Management of stock, non-stock and costing product items
• Management of manufactured pack items, products and kits
• Bin, default bin, and sub-bin locations
• Units of measure and unit conversion are definable
• Units can be imploded or exploded upon receipt, transfer or sale
• Provides for RF bar code equipment integration
• Serial, batch and lot number tracking
• Multiple stock-take options.  Abel provides for active trading stock takes, rotating stock takes, frozen and dynamic counting processes
• User defined stock-in and stock-out points in your business process
• Stock items can be sold, rented, maintained or serviced and can include "Hold" pricing for environmental levies
• Product packs can be set to explode into individual items upon receipt so that they can be repackaged for transfer or sale