InventoryStockedItemsRemove

This entity enables you to decrease inventory counts associated with the InventoryProducts entity.

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Entity details

Entity Name:	InventoryStockedItemsRemove
Entity Path:	/atservicesrest/v1.0/InventoryStockedItemsRemove
Can Create:
Can Update:
Can Query:
Can Delete:
Can Have UDFs:

IMPORTANT  Requests to this entity require special handling. Refer to the Entity URLs and relationships section of this article for details.

Fields that cannot be queried

This entity supports Create requests only. All fields will return errors if queried.

Conditions and requirements

General

• Create actions will cause the inventoryStockedItems.onHandUnits value to be recalculated.

• For serialized items, Create calls only update the onHandUnits value to 0 and change the removedUnits value to 1.

• Changes to serialized items do not create new entries in inventoryStockedItems.

• To remove a specific serial number, query the inventoryStockItems for that serial number and use the resulting inventoryStockItems.ID for the removal call.

• It is not possible to remove Reserved, Picked, Delivered or Removed units.

• inventoryProducts cannot be deleted if the reservedUnits or pickedUnits values are greater than 0.

• Following the release of Autotask 2022.1, it is no longer possible to update the quantity on hand of an inventory product. The field is now calculated based on the stocked items as follows:

  • To increase the quantity on hand of a product in inventory, you'll need to send a Create request to the InventoryStockedItemsAdd endpoint for the product to increase.

    • For serialized items, each serial number requires a new Create request against InventoryStockedItemsAdd. Only one serial number can exist per row.

  • To decrease the quantity on hand of a product in inventory, you'll need to send an Update request to the InventoryStockedItemsRemove endpoint for the product to decrease.

    • If the product is serialized, you'll need to query InventoryStockedItems for the serial number. Set the quantityOnHand value to 0 and the quantityRemoved value to 1. If required, reasonForUpdate must also be included.

    • If the product is not serialized, query InventoryStockedItems for the product associated with the inventory location. The query may return multiple rows. Decide which of the resulting rows will be updated. We recommend reducing the quantity from the oldest item.

  • For serialized items, the sum of onHandUnits, reservedUnits, transferredUnits, removedUnits, pickedUnits, and deliveredUnits will always equal 1.

  • For non-serialized items, the sum of onHandUnits, reservedUnits, transferredUnits, removedUnits, pickedUnits, and deliveredUnits is always equal to the value of the purchaseOrderItemReceiving.quantityPreviouslyReceived field.

• To determine the original received quantity, query the PurchaseOrderItemReceiving entity.

Special field attributes

Field	Conditions and Requirements
inventoryProductID	This field can only be used for non-serialized items.
inventoryProductID and inventoryStockedItemID	Only one of these fields can have a value at a time, and one of them is required. You can decide to remove from inventory product level or a specific stock item. If inventoryStockItemID is used, then the quantityBeingRemoved can not be more than availableUnits. If inventoryProductID is used, then the quantityBeingRemoved can not be greater than the availableUnits in inventoryProduct. The quantiyBeingRemoved will deduct units from multiple inventoryStockedParentItems (oldest first) until the total quantity is removed.
quantityBeingRemoved	For serialized items, this value cannot be greater than 1. For non-serialized items, the value cannot be greater than Available Units of the inventoryStockedItem from which you are removing quantity.
reasonForUpdate	This field is required if the system setting "Require/prompt users to enter a reason when manually updating an inventory item’s On Hand quantity, or when canceling receipt of a purchase order item" is enabled.

Guidelines for removing inventory

You'll need to query InventoryStockedItems first to get the ID from which you want to remove stocked items. Generally, if there is more than one ID from which you can remove, you should remove quantity from the oldest ID first. If you need to remove more units than are available in one stockedItemsID you will need to run this call multiple times.

Example

You have 40 mice in inventory. You query InventoryStockedItems for HP Mouse by productID and the call returns four lines (with four different IDs), indicating that in the past, you purchased mice on four different occasions (and maybe at different prices). All four entries still have the following remaining stock:

ID 123    Qty Available: 5    Received:  15 on 1-1-2019

ID 223    Qty Available: 10   Received: 10 on 5-6-2020

ID 721    Qty Available: 20   Received: 20 on 9-8-2020

ID 1023    Qty Available: 5     Received: 5 on  2-9-2021

If you want to remove 20 from stock, you could

• remove five from ID 123, then remove 10 from 223, then remove five from 721; or

• remove 10 from ID 223, then remove 10 from 223; or

• remove 20 from ID 721.

We recommend the first approach, as it removes the oldest inventory first.

If you want to remove 20 from Product, you can

• remove 20 from inventoryProduct ID 1234.

Field definitions

Field Name	Datatype	Read-Only	Is Required	Reference Name	Picklist
id	long
inventoryStockedItemID	integer			InventoryStockedItems
inventoryProductID	integer			InventoryProducts
quantityBeingRemoved	integer
reasonForUpdate	string (500)

Additional resources

• Using Postman to explore the REST API
• Using Swagger UI to explore REST API requests
• Working with attachments in the REST API