Stock Adjustment
A stock adjustment is a deliberate correction to recorded inventory to match reality, accounting for breakage, loss, tasting use, or count discrepancies.
What a stock adjustment is
A stock adjustment is an intentional change to recorded inventory made to bring the system into line with physical reality. Not every change in stock is a sale or a delivery: bottles break, get used for staff training or tastings, are written off as corked, or simply turn up short at a physical count. A stock adjustment records that change explicitly, with a reason, rather than letting the discrepancy go unexplained.
Crucially, a well-run adjustment is itself a recorded inventory movement, it carries a date, a quantity, and a reason code. It is a correction, not an erasure; the prior state and the adjustment both remain in the history.
Why it matters
Adjustments are where honesty meets auditability. Every operation has loss and non-sale consumption, and pretending otherwise corrupts inventory accuracy and margin reporting. Capturing adjustments with reasons turns vague "missing stock" into categorised, reviewable data, how much was breakage, how much was tasting, how much is genuinely unexplained.
In a wine program, the reasons behind adjustments are the raw material for understanding shrinkage and tightening control. Vinius records stock adjustments as part of movement history, so corrections are explained and traceable rather than silent overwrites. See inventory management.
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