{"id":17881,"date":"2026-01-28T07:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/?p=17881"},"modified":"2026-01-28T07:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T07:31:08","slug":"how-the-material-reference-report-works-in-idempiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/how-the-material-reference-report-works-in-idempiere\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Material Reference Report Works in iDempiere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Material Reference<\/strong> report in iDempiere is a <strong>read-only inventory traceability report<\/strong>. It is used to view <strong>all material movements related to a specific product<\/strong> based on existing transactions already posted in the system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report works purely on <strong>Material Transactions (M_Transaction)<\/strong> data. It does not depend on accounting postings, costing runs, or production completion. If a material movement exists in the system, it can appear in this report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><strong>Material Reference Report<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Material Reference report<\/strong> in iDempiere provides <strong>read-only inventory traceability<\/strong> for all material movements tied to a specific product, based solely on posted <strong>Material Transactions <\/strong>data. It operates independently of accounting postings, costing runs, or production completion\u2014any existing material movement appears in the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><strong>Material Transaction References<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For every material movement, the <strong>Material Reference report<\/strong> displays <strong>Product<\/strong>, <strong>Movement date<\/strong>, <strong>Quantity (In\/Out)<\/strong>, <strong>Warehouse and locator<\/strong>, and <strong>Reference document<\/strong> (receipt, issue, movement, production). This enables tracing material origin and destination without navigating multiple transaction windows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/01\/TenthPlanet-iDempiere-InventoryManagement-MaterialReference-1-1024x529.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/01\/TenthPlanet-iDempiere-InventoryManagement-MaterialReference-1-1024x529.png 1024w, https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/01\/TenthPlanet-iDempiere-InventoryManagement-MaterialReference-1-300x155.png 300w, https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/01\/TenthPlanet-iDempiere-InventoryManagement-MaterialReference-1-768x397.png 768w, https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/01\/TenthPlanet-iDempiere-InventoryManagement-MaterialReference-1-1536x793.png 1536w, https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/01\/TenthPlanet-iDempiere-InventoryManagement-MaterialReference-1.png 1868w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><strong>Material Reference Uses<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Material Reference report<\/strong> is commonly used for <strong>investigating stock discrepancies<\/strong>, <strong>verifying material usage<\/strong> in projects or production, <strong>supporting internal\/external audits<\/strong>, and <strong>understanding historical stock movements<\/strong>. It proves especially valuable when addressing quantity differences without focusing on accounting values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br><strong>Report Limitations<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <strong>Material Reference report<\/strong> does not change inventory, post accounting, calculate valuation, adjust cost, or perform any transactional updates. It functions strictly as a <strong>reference and analysis report<\/strong> for reviewing existing data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"509\" src=\"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/01\/TenthPlanet-iDempiere-InventoryManagement-MaterialReference-2-1024x509.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/01\/TenthPlanet-iDempiere-InventoryManagement-MaterialReference-2-1024x509.png 1024w, https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/01\/TenthPlanet-iDempiere-InventoryManagement-MaterialReference-2-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/01\/TenthPlanet-iDempiere-InventoryManagement-MaterialReference-2-768x382.png 768w, https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/01\/TenthPlanet-iDempiere-InventoryManagement-MaterialReference-2-1536x763.png 1536w, https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2026\/01\/TenthPlanet-iDempiere-InventoryManagement-MaterialReference-2-2048x1018.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Material Reference provides <strong>transaction-level visibility<\/strong> into inventory movement, helping businesses maintain control, accountability, and traceability of physical stock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Material Reference report in iDempiere is a read-only inventory traceability report. It is used to view all material movements [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inventory"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/idempiere\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}