Stock summary helps you answer two related questions: how much stock is physically present, and how much is available to use? It groups similar stock together so you can review amounts without reading every individual item or lot.
Each group keeps the stock type, product, location and unit together. Those details give the amount its meaning: knowing you have a quantity of a product is only useful when you also know its form, where it is and how it was measured.
Start by finding the group you want to review. Read Stock type and Product to recognize what is being held, then read Location and Unit. Only then compare the two quantity columns.
Physical on hand includes stock that still exists even if it is held, unready or otherwise unavailable. Available to use describes the part currently available for use. A difference between the columns can therefore describe stock waiting for a decision or a later stage; it does not by itself mean that stock has disappeared.
Compare quantities within their stated units. A count of containers and the weight of their contents describe different things; this page does not turn kilograms, millilitres and item counts into a single combined amount.
Stock type describes the form in which the stock is being kept, using the choices you set up for your farm. The same product can exist in several forms at different stages of work. Reading Stock type alongside Product helps you distinguish those groups before comparing their amounts.
Product identifies what you are growing or keeping, such as the crop, variety, strain or breed. It works together with Stock type: one tells you what it is, and the other tells you the form in which it is recorded. This helps prevent starting material, growing stock and finished output from being mistaken for the same group.
Location tells you where the stock in this group is currently recorded. It follows moves that you included and that passed their entry checks. Held stock still occupies a place on the farm, so read the location with both quantity columns to understand what is there and what is ready to use.
Unit explains what the number measures, such as individual items, kilograms or litres. Always keep it beside the quantity when comparing groups. A number of containers is not automatically the weight or volume inside them, and this report does not convert one into the other.
Physical on hand is the amount the workbook records as still present. It brings together accepted receipts and production, subtracts recorded consumption and actual use or loss, and includes applied quantity corrections. Stock on hold or waiting to be ready still belongs in this amount because it has not physically gone anywhere.
If the total is unexpected, use Current Stock to find the individual records behind it and read their histories. The summary helps you notice the question; the detailed entries explain how the amount was reached.
Available to use is the amount recorded as ready for its intended use. A stock number adds its on-hand quantity to this amount when its status is Available and its Usable until date has not passed. A held, unready or past-use-by lot adds zero, even while its physical stock remains on the farm.
Open Current Stock to see which items or lots explain a difference from Physical on hand. This version does not reserve part of a quantity for customer orders, so the figure should not be read as a balance after customer promises.