The Logistics Workspace

Logistics in GarmentFlow is two things at once. It's the inbound side — buying materials, receiving them, paying suppliers, keeping stock visible. And it's the production-driven side — moving materials from raw-material storage to the right Production Unit at the right time, recording every movement, reconciling consumption against plan.

What makes this section different from Design, Production, and Quality: it's the most ERPNext-integrated of the four. The doctypes you'll spend the most time in — Item, Material Request, Stock Entry, Purchase Order, Purchase Receipt, Purchase Invoice, Stock Ledger, Stock Balance — are all ERPNext native. GarmentFlow's job here is to orchestrate them: auto-creating Material Requests when a Batch starts, posting Stock Entries when an Operation Ledger Entry records consumption, syncing reserved quantities back to Production Batches.

Open Desk → GarmentFlow → Logistics and the workspace lays itself out as a "Logistics Command Center" with six cards:

1. Demand & Planning — Production Bridge, Material Requests, demand reports.
2. Purchasing — Purchase Orders, Purchase Receipts, purchasing reports.
3. Master Data — Suppliers, Items, variants, purchase history.
4. Inbound & Exceptions — Inbound Tracker, Logistics Overview, Supplier Readiness, shortage reports.
5. External Units & Dispatch — External Unit Balance, Dispatch Queue, Recovery Queue.
6. Stock & Procurement — Production Stock Summary, Material Procurement Status, Stock Movement Timeline.

Above the cards are six KPI numbers (Open POs, Late POs, Pending MRs, Active Suppliers, Item Variants, Receipts to Bill) and three trend charts (POs by Status, MRs by Status, PRs by Status). Plus four quick lists for the things that need attention today: Late POs, Pending MRs, Receipts to Bill, Item Variants.

The two workflows

Almost everything in this section maps to one of two flows:

• Inbound procurement. You need fabric or trims. Raise an RFQ (or skip straight to PO). Receive the goods (Purchase Receipt). Pay the supplier (Purchase Invoice). The materials land in your Raw Material warehouse, available for production.
• Production-driven movement. A Production Batch starts. GarmentFlow auto-creates a Material Request to transfer the batch's materials from the Raw Material warehouse to the WIP warehouse (or to a specific Production Unit's warehouse). A Stock Entry posts the transfer. As the batch progresses, Operation Ledger Entries record consumption — each consumption posts a Stock Entry that discounts the source warehouse.

If you understand those two flows, you understand 80% of this section. The rest is configuration, visibility, and external-unit specifics.

The mental model

Materials are bought (inbound), moved (transfers), consumed (operations), and recovered (returns and finished goods). Every movement leaves a record. Every record adds up.

The Stock Ledger is where every movement eventually lands. Read it for the truth of what's where.

Where to start

If you're new to this section, read in this order:

1. Installing the Logistics App — get the app on the warehouse team's tablets.
2. The material flow — the conceptual centerpiece. Read this before anything else; it's the model the rest of the section makes sense against.
3. Procurement — the inbound side.
4. The Logistics App — how the warehouse team actually moves stock day-to-day.
5. Dashboards — what to look at when you want to know if logistics is in control.