The staging bin is where finished goods land before they go anywhere else. Stock arrives, then leaves again — either put away into a storage bin, or picked straight out to a despatch cage. Nothing is meant to live there, so a healthy bin holds nothing.
This screen shows what is flowing through it and what has been left behind.
What you're looking at
Last 10 stock items that moved — the most recent activity, netted. For each item: units in, units out, and the difference. This is the pulse of the bin. It refreshes on its own roughly every minute.
Everything not at zero — the standing list. Every stock item whose bin balance is not zero, ranked by how far off it is. This list does not scroll away or reset: an item stays on it until the balance is actually cleared.
The four things the list tells you
- In staging — stock arrived recently and hasn't been put away yet. Normal, as long as it clears. Chase it once it passes seven days.
- Stuck in staging — past seven days. It has been built or received and then forgotten. Someone needs to put it away.
- Negative balance — the ERP has issued more out of the bin than it ever recorded arriving. This is a counting problem, not physical stock; nobody can go and fetch a negative mattress. It means the bin count has drifted and needs recounting.
- Stale — no movement — sitting in the bin with no scan activity at all for the whole 90-day window. These never clear on their own and always need a person to go and look.
Click any row to see the full breakdown, including which of the two ways stock left — put away to storage, or picked out to despatch — and what to do next.
Why some items show no "units in"
This is the part that surprises people, so it's worth being clear.
Mattresses are scanned as they arrive. Both legs of their journey are recorded, so their "in" and "out" figures are both real and should roughly match.
Bases and pedestals are not scanned in. They are only scanned as they leave. So they show no arrival figure at all — the column is blank rather than zero, and the item is tagged Out only. Their net will look heavily negative, and that is not a shortage. It is simply the half of the journey nobody records.
For those items, read the bin balance and ignore the net. The balance comes from the ERP's own count of the bin, so it is trustworthy whether or not the arrival was ever scanned. That is why the standing list is built on the balance and never on the movement figures.
The Arrivals not scanned figure at the top tells you how much of the bin's traffic falls into this category, so you always know how much of the flow picture you are actually seeing.
How fresh it is
The bin balance behind the error list refreshes every couple of minutes; the movement history behind the last-ten panel every fifteen. The screen re-reads about once a minute and shows the time it last read, so you can tell at a glance whether you are looking at something current. It pauses when the tab is in the background and catches up the moment you return to it. There is a Refresh button if you want to force it.
What good looks like
An empty standing list. Realistically you will always have a handful of items mid-put-away — what matters is that nothing is ageing. Watch three things: anything past seven days, any negative balance, and anything marked stale.