With a stock movement (Warenbewegung), you change the stock of a product directly in the WMS App — without a goods receipt, without an order, and without a stocktake. You book stock onto a bin location, from a bin location, or you move it from one bin location to another.
When do you need a stock movement?
Typical cases are a correction after a counting error, writing off breakage or own use, and rearranging the warehouse. A stock movement is distinct from two other processes:
With a goods receipt, goods arrive in the warehouse as part of a delivery or supplier order — with a document and a reference.
In a stocktake, stock is counted and the counted stock is adopted.
A stock movement is the way to handle everything that has no such reference.
Starting point: product or bin location
In the app menu, open the Stock movements (Warenbewegungen) section. Below the headline, you see the current warehouse zone — use this selection field to switch it if you want to work in a different zone.
Below that, you decide what you want to start from:
Product – You search for or scan a single product and move its stock.
Bin location – You search for or scan a bin location and move its content.
Use the icon on the right of the search field to start the scanner instead of typing in a search term.
The three types of stock movement
Once you have selected a product, the Move stock screen opens. At the top, you see the product with its product number, total stock, manufacturer, and weight. Below that, you choose the type of movement:
Add – Stock is added from outside the warehouse. You only specify the destination bin location; the From side shows External.
Remove – Stock leaves the warehouse. You only specify the source bin location; the To side shows External.
Move – Stock changes its bin location. You specify both bin locations. The total stock does not change in the process.
The movement is displayed as a flow from top to bottom: From at the top, To at the bottom, and the quantity in between. This way, you can see at a glance in which direction the stock is flowing.
Move stock
Choose the type: Add, Remove, or Move.
Tap Select source bin location or Select destination bin location and select the bin location — or scan its label using the icon on the right of the card.
Set the quantity using − and +. The display in the middle shows it as Units (Stück).
If needed, add a comment via Add comment, for example the reason for a write-off. Comments you have already used are available for selection; an existing comment can be changed via Edit comment.
Complete the booking using the button at the bottom of the screen. It carries the name of the selected type and only becomes active once all required information has been entered.
As soon as the source and destination are set, each card shows you a stock preview: the current amount on the left, the amount after the booking on the right — decreasing in red, increasing in green. In addition, each card shows the warehouse zone of the respective bin location.
Moving stock across warehouse zones
A stock movement is not tied to the warehouse zone in which the app is currently working. The current zone is preselected, but you can move stock from any warehouse zone to any other — the cards show you the associated warehouse zone for each bin location. You do not have to switch the app to a different zone beforehand.
Moving an entire bin location
If you start from Bin location instead of Product, you move the entire content of a bin location. With Move all products (Alle Artikel umlagern), you move everything stored there to another bin location.
For other ways to access bin locations and products in the app, see Where can I view information about products and bin locations in the WMS App?.
For the special case of emptying several bin locations at once, there is a separate guide: How can I move products from several bin locations at the same time?
Stock movement in the Admin
You can also make the same bookings in the Shopware Admin without using the app. To find out how, see How do I manage my stock?.