Title: Stock Control for Small Manufacturers | ZMOS by Zudo Works
URL: https://zudoworks.com/zmos/inventory/
Description: ZMOS stock control for small manufacturers: an immutable ledger, live balances per warehouse, receipts, issues, transfers, counts and reorder points.
Updated: 2026-11-03

# Stock control that is right at the moment you look

ZMOS keeps a ledger of every movement and shows live balances per item and warehouse, right at the moment you look. Receipts, issues to jobs, transfers and counts post in seconds; a correction is a new movement, never an edit, so the figures can be trusted.

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- Live balances per item and warehouse
- Immutable ledger: corrections are new movements
- Reorder points and low-stock alerts
- Import items, customers and vendors from a file

![ZMOS stock movement form with item, warehouse, quantity and reference fields](https://zudoworks.com/Asset/img/zmos/stock-movement-form.webp)

Posting a stock movement in ZMOS; every posting becomes a ledger row. Sample data.

## What stock control covers in ZMOS

1. **Items, units and warehouses**

   Sheets, bar stock, hardware, consumables and the parts you make, each with a base unit, material grade, thickness and dimensions. Warehouses are the only location concept; bins are out of scope.
2. **Movements**

   Receipts, issues, returns, transfers and count adjustments. Every posting records who, when and why; posted movements cannot be edited or deleted.
3. **Balances**

   Live quantity and value per item and warehouse, with the standard cost from the item. Dashboards show total stock value and the movements per day.
4. **Reorder points**

   Set a reorder point per item; workflow rules fire when a balance falls below it, so purchasing sees the list without a report.
5. **Costs that follow what you pay**

   A receipt at a new unit cost can become the item's cost from then on, so the next order and invoice start from it.

## Why the ledger matters

A spreadsheet can be overwritten; a ledger cannot.

In ZMOS a stock figure is the sum of posted movements, and postings that could drive stock negative are serialised per item and warehouse. When a count disagrees with the system, you post an adjustment with a reason and the history keeps both numbers. That is what makes month-end valuation and traceability possible later.

## Where it stops

ZMOS tracks single-level BOMs and single-location warehouses. Lot or heat-number tracking and bins are not in the current release.

- Multi-level BOMs: not yet
- Bins and sub-locations: out of scope
- Lot and heat numbers: planned, not shipped

Watch it work

## See this part of ZMOS on video

Recorded in the product itself, narrated in English, start to finish.

[![Video thumbnail: Chapter 7. Stock control](https://zudoworks.com/Asset/img/zmos/stock-movement-form.webp)Chapter 7. Stock control](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_AptIFS1Jo&t=1836s)

30:367. Stock control

Receipts, issues, transfers, counts and the live balances they produce. The clip starts at this chapter of the full two-hour build; every step is on sample data and the current version.

[All 38 chapters and the 20-minute tour](https://zudoworks.com/zmos/videos/)

## Questions

Can I import my existing stock list?

Yes. Items, customers and vendors import from a file; opening balances post as receipts into the warehouse of your choice.

Can a storekeeper post from a phone?

Yes. ZMOS runs in the phone browser with the same forms, and image fields let the storekeeper attach a photo of the delivery note.

What happens if someone posts a wrong quantity?

They post a correcting movement with a reason. The original stays in the ledger, the balance is right again, and the audit log shows both.