4.10 Transfers and Dispatches

Use stock transactions to record your animals' actual movements. Keep the Batch and serial allocations accurate so your house balances and life-cycle history stay consistent.

Move animals between houses

1. Create a standard Material Transfer Stock Entry for the Company.
2. Enter source and destination Warehouses, livestock Item, stock quantity, and the actual Batch/serial allocations.
3. Review posting timestamp and submit.
4. Confirm departure and arrival in the stock ledger and life-cycle report.

A transfer changes location. It is not a birth, sale, or mortality event. House-filtered population and exposure change when animals enter or leave that house.

Dispatch and return

Use standard ERPNext Delivery Note, or a stock-updating Sales Invoice where appropriate, to record physical customer dispatch. Allocate the actual animal Batch/Serial Nos and warehouse. Use the corresponding standard return workflow for customer returns.

Life-cycle sales coverage follows physical stock movements. Non-stock invoices and revenue-only billing do not add dispatch events, and billing linked to a delivery must not be counted as another animal departure.

Batch transformations

Record legitimate splits, merges, or replacements using reviewed Repack transactions with complete stock allocations. The lifecycle report infers continuity only when count and access checks pass. It labels cross-Item replacement as Reclassification / possible grading because stock records alone cannot prove grading intent.