Overview of available stock is an useful  function, that can also be accessed from the customer orders and from the orders to suppliers.

The free stock is a hypothetical data, that tells you, what the stock of the chosen item will be after it will be realized: all orders of customers and suppliers with the status of such type, that affects the free stock (in continuation: confirmed orders, which is the name of predefined status of orders of such type) and when the published work orders will be made.

The free stock is calculated by the formula:

1. SIMPLE USE (if the Manufacturing module is not being used)

free_stock = actual_stock - confirmed_customer_orders + confirmed_orders_to_suppliers

2. EXTENDED USE (together with the data from the Manufacturing module)

free stock = actual stock - confirmed customer orders - needs fro WO + confirmed orders to suppliers + planned manufacturing from WO

When you find the item, for which you wish the free stock overview with the help of the search window, the following data is being displayed on the panel:

• Stock
• Orders and WO
• Stock by warehouses

And detailed data about the documents that affect the free stock:

• Sales orders 
• Purchase orders
• WO - Manufacturing
• WO - Material usage
• Plan - data about amounts is here of informative nature and does note affect the free stock
• Hard allocations - does not directly affect the free stock, but shows the remained amount for dispatch and reservations

	With the overview of free stock and orders the program only displays the non-delivered, confirmed and non-completed orders of customers or suppliers. As confirmed the types of orders are regarded, that have the status of such type, that it affects on the free stock (see Types of documents of orders). Non-confirmed, already delivered or completed orders do not affect the free stock and are not being considered by the program.
	If the option Include Only Valid Orders is not checked, the program will only consider all such orders for the calculation, regardless the validity limit.
	All non-completed or partially completed work orders affect the free stock, regardless of the selection of the Include Only Valid Orders option.
	If you can view the data about the current free stock for a certain item, you may display data about the current free stock for all items or for the chosen selection of items in the free stock report.

For general description of the task bar functions see Task Bar.