Item Activity report

The Item Activity report contains detailed information about which items are available (on-order, on-hand, and reserved quantity totals), and where they are located.

The quantities on the Item Activity report reflect the value changes resulting from transactions, not quantities remaining. These quantities can differ from what you see on a Physical Inventory or Inventory Valuation report, since those reports show quantities available.

To report on the quantities of all the inventory totals in your organization, create a custom report using the Inventory total detail object.

Use the Item Activity report to view:

  • Items available in each warehouse.
  • Types of item transactions for a selected period.
  • Availability of items that are components of a kit (creating a sales order for a kit moves the component items to reserved status).
This report appears when you drill down into certain other reports. For example, if you select the Qty available or End qty links in the Inventory Status and Inventory Register reports respectively, the appropriate item is displayed in the Item Activity report so you can review the series of transactions that led to the running totals results.

Who typically needs this report?

Warehouse managers who need to see all the transactions for an item within a specified period.

View a monthly item activity report

  1. Go to Inventory Control > All > Reports > Item activity.

  2. Enter the time period that you want the report to cover. If you do nothing, you'll get a report for the current month to date.
    • You can set either the reporting period or the start and end dates, but not both. For more details on reporting periods, see Time period.
  3. To view all results for the default reporting period, select View.
You can run this report without entering any search information; however, the report might take a long time to run and might return too many results to be useful.
  1. To include or exclude specific types of data in the report, set filters such as customer, item, UPC, value, or account. As a general rule, to get fewer and more precise results in your report, set Report filters.
  2. Enter a title, subtitle, and footer for your report.
  3. View, process, memorize, or export the report by selecting one of the following:
To... ...select

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View

Generate a PDF version of the report.

Print

Generate the report and store it for later access. Reports can be either stored in My Stored Reports or delivered to a cloud storage location, such as Dropbox. Learn more about processing and storing reports.

Process & Store

Memorize (that is, save) the report so that later you can refer back to it or modify and re-run it.

Memorize

Export the report to a separate file that you can then distribute or save to your local drive. Export to Excel, Word, text, or csv formats.

Export

After you run a report, you can choose to email it to others (select Email), or reset the filters to refine the results (select Customize).

Time period

You can use one of the numerous pre-defined reporting periods available from the Reporting period and As of date fields, or create your own reporting period using the Start date and End date fields.

Report filters

Filters focus the results of your report, to isolate and assemble just the data you want. You can set any combination of filters.

Location and department filters

These filter options appear only if you work in a multi-entity environment.

Titles and footer

Titles, subtitles, and footers apply only to the print versions of this report. Export to Excel or CSV, or select Print for a PDF version.

What's in this report?

The default Item Activity report consists of the following columns to help you identify where your items are stored, and current transaction status:

Report Column Heading Description

Item ID

The ID assigned to the inventory item.

Item description

The full name of the inventory item.

UOM

The unit of measure the system used for the item quantity and costing calculations. For example, Each or a Dozen.

By default this report displays the Base units of measure associated with the items. If the Inventory Control configuration option Enable UOM conversion in standard reports is set to true in your company, this report will use the default Inventory unit of measure for this report. Learn how to set the default Inventory unit of measure for a unit of measure group.

Warehouse

The warehouse for the item. The report is grouped by item and then by warehouse for each item.

Transaction

The transaction type and the document number assigned to the transaction. For example, Purchase Order or Sales invoice.

Date

The date on which the transaction occurred.

Qty on order

The change in the quantity in open purchase orders.

Qty in transit

The change in the quantity for inventory being moved in in-transit warehouse transfers. The in-transit quantity is tracked at the destination warehouse.

Qty on hand

The change in the quantity in stock at the warehouse.

Qty on hold

The change in the quantity on hand to fulfill open sales orders.

You can select any link to drill down to the details.