Viewers inspect stock and retained records without authority to record stock movements. Use Stock, Demand, Transfers, Records, Expected deliveries and Receipt reports to answer a question from evidence.
Read the quantity in context
An item's Current stock, Available, Inbound on site, In transit and On order describe different parts of its lifecycle. Available is the figure used for reordering. It excludes held, expired and committed stock but ignores count freezes; a physical action still checks the freeze before proceeding.
On order is a Purchasing commitment, not material already on the shelf. An unknown current on-order value must stay unknown. Where a last-known figure is displayed, it is historical and excluded from the current suggested need.
Open the item to inspect recorded locations, lots and conditions. Use Movement history to see how it changed. A stock-status badge is useful for triage, but does not replace the exact quantities and their units.
Follow a record
In Records, narrow the question by item, movement or reference using the controls provided. Open the transaction, source or original command receipt when linked. Reading a retained receipt repeats no action. A retained source describes recorded work and is separate from today's available stock.
Read all relevant pages of results. A first page or a printed status snapshot is not the complete site ledger. Check the observation time on cached Purchasing information.
Report a discrepancy
Give a supervisor the item code, bin, lot, record reference, quantity, unit and the physical observation or document that conflicts with the screen. Keep a suspected error distinct from an approved correction. See history and documents for the retained evidence and document boundaries.