Reading the Widgets

What each widget is counting, and which of them obey the date range.

Sixteen widgets ship in the default arrangement. They fall into three groups and a set of rankings, and the Manage Widgets panel files them under Stock and Charts.

Value

Widget	What it counts
Total Stock Overview	The whole holding, split into available and reserved
Stock by Warehouse	A total distributed across depots, with your primary one starred
Stock by Category	The same total grouped by item category, with each category's share

Health

Stock by Warehouse, Stock Aging and Dead Stock, and Stock by Category side by side. Stock Aging splits the catalogue into Fresh at 32 items and 97 per cent, Slowing at one item and 3 per cent, and Stagnant and Dead Stock at zero. — Stock Aging has four buckets, and the two on the right are the ones worth acting on.

Widget	What it counts
Stock Status	The catalogue split into in stock, low stock, out of stock and inactive
Stock Aging / Dead Stock	Holdings bucketed as Fresh, Slowing, Stagnant or Dead Stock

Low stock is decided by each item's reorder point, so Stock Status is only as useful as those numbers are.

Rankings

A row of four ranking widgets. Top Selling Items lists items with units sold, quantity on hand and revenue, showing a Three-Phase Motor with 20 sold and 11.7 thousand pounds of revenue. Top Stocked Items lists a Deep Groove Bearing at 375 in stock. Recent Stock Adjustments lists adjustments with their reasons Expired Items, Audit Adjustment and Found Items and statuses Adjusted or Draft. Top Returns lists sales returns against customers with an Approved status. — Top Selling Items shows quantity on hand beside units sold, so a fast mover running low is visible in one row.

Widget	Ranked by
Top Selling Items	Units and revenue over the period, with stock on hand alongside
Top Stocked Items	Quantity on hand
Top Returns	Recent sales returns
Top Vendors	Purchase value or units received, switched with a By Value control

Activity

Widget	What it lists
Stock Movement	Stock in against stock out over the period, with in, out and net totals
Recent Stock Adjustments	The latest corrections, with reason and status
Recent Shipments	The latest outgoing shipments, with customer and status
Recent Receives	The latest purchase receives, with vendor and status
Recent Packages	The latest boxes prepared, with customer and status
Recent Activity	All of those in one feed. Switched off in the default layout

Which widgets obey the date range

Obeys the range: Stock Movement, Top Selling Items, Top Vendors and the four recent lists. They count events, so a period is meaningful.
Ignores it: Total Stock Overview, Stock Status, Stock by Warehouse, Stock by Category, Stock Aging and Top Stocked Items. They read the position now.
Carries its own: Stock Movement and Top Vendors have a second picker beside their title, which wins for that widget alone.