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For depots using the bin location feature, this indicator shows the number of lots that are not in a bin. This can occur when a location enables bin tracking after previously disabling it. Ignore if you are not tracking bin locations in your depot.

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Delayed Incoming Stock Movements

This indicator shows a list of stock movements incoming to your depot where the receipts appears to be delayed. Click on the shipment name to view the details. OpenBoxes defines delayed differently by the shipment method:

  • Sea shipments - not received 60 days after shipment

  • Air shipments - not received 30 days after shipment

  • Land shipments - not received 7 days after shipment

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Items Received with a Discrepancy

This indicator lists all shipments received where there was a discrepancy between quantity shipped and quantity received. By default, it shows shipments received in the last 6 months. Change the filter in the top right to view a different time period. The number in the discrepancy column is the number of items in the shipment that were discrepant. Click on the shipment name to see details.

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Products with Negative Inventory

This indicator shows the number of items in your warehouse with negative inventory. Negative inventory can occur through incorrect entry of back-dated transactions or cycle counts. Hovering over the indictor will show the details of the inventory.

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Expired Products in Stock

This indicator shows the total number of lots in stock with expiry date before today. Clicking the indicator will open the expired products report where you can view the detailed information and mark products as expired.

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Open Stock Requests

This indicator shows the number of electronic requests submitted to your depot that have not yet been fulfilled. Click on the indictor to see a list of open requests.

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Inventory Value

This indicator shows the value of the inventory in your depot, based n the inventory quantity and unit price per product.

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Stock Movements Received by Month

This graph shows the number of stock movements received into your depot by month. It defaults to the last 6 months, but the time period can be changed in the upper right hand corner. The different colors in the bar chart represent different origin locations. If you hover over the colored bar, a tooltip will show you which origin location that color represents.

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Stock Movements Sent by Month

This graph shows the number of stock movements sent out of your depot by month. It defaults to the last 6 months, but the time period can be changed in the upper right hand corner. The different colors in the bar chart represent different destination locations. If you hover over the colored bar, a tooltip will show you which destination location that color represents.

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Stock v Ad Hoc Requests Last Month

This indicator shows the proportion of stock requests (requests based on a set list and schedule), vs ad hoc requests (request outside of the set schedule). This can help indicate whether clients needs are being met through the regular replenishment process, or whether there are many emergency requests outside of the regular process.

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Stock outs last month

This indicators shows the proportion of items stocked out in the last month, buy length of stock out. Items not stocked out at all in the previous month appear in green. Items stocked out less than 1 week appear in yellow. Items stocked out 1-2 weeks appear in orange, and items stocked out for 3 weeks or more appear in red. The goal for this indicator is to see as much green as possible in the pie chart.

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Fill Rate Last Month

Fill rate is a supply chain performance indicator commonly used in for-profit companies to show how well the organization is meeting customer needs. It shows the percentage of request lines filled vs requested. So for example, if a warehouse received a request for 100 items, but was only able to send 98, the fill rate for that request would be 98%. The fill rate in OpenBoxes also takes into account whether an item is not filled because of stock out, or because of a clinical or programmatic decision. Items not filled because it was not deemed appropriate to fill them do not lower the fill rate; only items not filled because of stock out or low stock. The calculation is

count(all request lines submitted) - count (all request lines cancelled with reason code low stock or stockout)

count(all request lines submitted last month)

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Fill Rate Last 12 Months

See “fill rate last month” section above for a detailed explanation of fill rate. This graph shows the same fill rate data, but over time. The green bars represent the total number of request lines submitted (the denominator), while the blue bars represent the number of request lines cancelled due to stockout or low stock. These bars are intended to give you a sense of the number of requests each month. The lines show the fill rate itself, and correspond to the percentages on the right of the graph. The target fill rate is set at 90%. In the example below, you can see that the fill rate was below 80% in October, then shot up to 93%. It dipped again in December, which may be related ot the large volume of requests that month. It went up to 100% in January, probably related to the very small number of requests in that month. You can filter this graph to see a different series of months, or to see only the fill rate for requests from a particular destination.

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Items Inventoried this Month

This indicator shows the number of inventory items (lot numbers) where a physical inventory has been done in the last month. If your warehouse has a target for items counted per month, you can compare that target against this number to see how you are doing. If you are concerned about tracking inventory adjustments to avoid shrinkage, you can look at this number to see if inventory adjustments are being done more often than expected, and look at the audit data to see who in the warehouse to follow up with.

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