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title: Inventory Consumption
description: Inventory consumption allows you to transfer or take off items between warehouses.
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# Inventory Consumption

## Learn how the inventory consumpltion feature works in Precoro and how to create and use it.

#### TABLE OF CONTENTS

- [Inventory Consumption Feature and Who Can Access It](https://help.precoro.com/inventory-consumption#inv)
- [How to Create an Inventory Consumption](https://help.precoro.com/inventory-consumption#how-to-create) 
    - [1. Add Custom Fields for Items and Documents to Track the Necessary Information](https://help.precoro.com/inventory-consumption#add1)
    - [2. Create the Inventory Consumption Document](https://help.precoro.com/inventory-consumption#create2)
    - [3. Add Items to the Created Document](https://help.precoro.com/inventory-consumption#addit3)

- [Managing the Created Consumption](https://help.precoro.com/inventory-consumption#managing)
- [Editing Inventory Consumption](https://help.precoro.com/inventory-consumption#editing)
- [Cancelling Inventory Consumption](https://help.precoro.com/inventory-consumption#Cancelling-Inventory-Consumption)

*Please note, Precoro is updated regularly, so some buttons, fields, or screens shown below may differ from your current version.*

### Inventory Consumption Feature and Who Can Access It

Inventory consumption allows you to transfer or take off items between warehouses. 

This feature can be highly advantageous when you work on schedule and know exactly what items will be used.

Users with **Warehouse manager** roles can work with this feature.

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### How to Create an Inventory Consumption

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#### 1\. Add Custom Fields for Items and Documents to Track the Necessary Information

In **Configuration** → Custom Fields for Items and Documents, activate the **Inventory Consumption** setting and press **Update** to save the changes.

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**💡 Please note:** With Inventory Consumption activated in Custom Fields for Items and Documents, the **Limit Access to Documents** feature will be unavailable.

#### 2. Create the Inventory Consumption Document

1\. Open **Inventory** on the left-side menu and click the **Create Inventory Consumption** button.

2\. Fill out all required fields.

3\. Click on the **Create** button below.

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#### 3. Add Items to the Created Document

1\. Click the **Add Item** button to choose from the inventory items list.

2\. Press **Edit** to enter additional information about the item and **Save** the changes.

3\. Specify the amount you wish to transfer.

4\. Press **Confirm**.

Use filters by **Categories** and **Item** **Groups** to save time and quickly sort through the items.

**💡 Please note: **If there are no **Categories** or **Item Groups** added to the items, the filters will not be displayed. Also, those two filters are only displayed in the Catalog Items.

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![](https://help.precoro.com/hubfs/Monosnap%20Group%20Category%20Management%202023-05-26%2017-54-04-png.png)

**💡 Please note: **You can also add **Comments** or **Notes** in the created document for your colleagues, more information on how to work with them in Precoro, can be found [here](https://help.precoro.com/working-with-notes-in-documents?hsLang=en).

### Managing the Created Consumption

After Confirming, the Consumption will be displayed on the **Stock Transfers** page. By pressing the # (number), you will see the document and item information.

**![](https://help.precoro.com/hubfs/Monosnap%20screencast%202023-05-18%2014-24-15-gif.gif)**

On the **Inventory Management** page, you can set and see the Gross/Net Total sum of items in the Warehouse:

![](https://help.precoro.com/hubfs/Monosnap%20Inventory%202023-05-18%2014-26-36-png.png)

To set the Gross/Net Total sum for display, choose the type of Total sum for display in **Configuration** → **Basic Settings** → **MISC** → **“The total in the document’s lists”**:

![](https://help.precoro.com/hubfs/Monosnap%20Basic%20Settings%202023-05-18%2014-27-39-png.png)

You can manage all the created documents on the Inventory Consumptions page and see information regarding:

- Document number #
- Status
- Creation/Transfer Date
- Posted to Warehouse

[![](https://help.precoro.com/hubfs/Monosnap%20screencast%202022-11-28%2009-13-16-gif.gif)](https://help.precoro.com/hubfs/Monosnap%20screencast%202022-11-28%2009-13-16-gif.gif?hsLang=en)

You can export an Inventory Consumption in **PDF** or **XLSX** Formats by selecting the needed option:

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### Editing Inventory Consumption

Click on the **Edit Inventory Consumption** button to make changes to the created document.

**💡 Please note:** Editing is only available on the document’s **Draft** status.

You can edit the following fields:

- Transfer Date\*
- Location\*
- Post to Warehouse
- Custom Fields for Documents (if added)

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### Cancelling Inventory Consumption

You can **Cancel** previously created [Inventory Consumption](https://help.precoro.com/inventory-consumption). To do that, follow these steps:

1\. Open the Inventory Consumption (IC) you want to **Cancel** and press the corresponding button in the right action panel.

2\. Provide a reason for cancellation and press **Yes** to proceed.

**💡 Please note: **You can only cancel Consumptions with a **Completed** status.

Subsequently, after the IC is canceled, it will have a **Canceled** status:

- The **related Stock Transfer** will also automatically acquire a **Canceled** status.
- A new **Stock Transfer** will be created to return the items to the original Warehouses.

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Suppose you created a Consumption for multiple Warehouses. Consequently, you will have several Stock Transfers (one for each Warehouse). After cancellation, you will have a second round of Stock Transfers to return the taken items.

![](https://help.precoro.com/hubfs/Monosnap%20Stock%20Transfers%202023-06-14%2014-51-15-png.png)

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