S_00010 — Cycle-count reconciliation through posted inventory adjustments

This solution addresses P_00011; the problem owns the forward reference in its ordered solutionsIds array.

The closest existing records were S_00002 and S_00009. S_00002 consolidates operating and ledger records to calculate margin, while S_00009 changes the reporting path for recurring management questions. Neither compares physical counts with recorded stock or posts approved discrepancies through an inventory-adjustment workflow, so the duplicate review approved a materially distinct record.

kind: solution_catalog
schema_version: 1
solutions:
  - id: S_00010
    proofIds: []
    priority: 50
    name: 'Cycle-count reconciliation through posted inventory adjustments'
    status: approved
    mechanism: >-
      Compare physical counts with current on-hand stock by warehouse and the
      configured item or lot strategy. After review, apply approved differences
      that exceed the maintained tolerance through posted inventory adjustment
      movements, updating the recorded stock while preserving the correction in
      the movement history. Use the movement sequence and recorded adjustment
      context to investigate later variances rather than silently overwriting
      the system balance.
    capabilities:
      - name: 'Compare counted quantity with current on-hand stock'
        classification: native
        conditions:
          - 'The cycle count must identify the correct warehouse, item, unit, location, and lot where applicable.'
          - 'Counts must be performed and entered accurately.'
          - 'The recorded stock position is recalculated before the count is completed.'
        evidence_ids: []
      - name: 'Configure cycle-count strategy, schedule, tolerance, and approval'
        classification: configured
        conditions:
          - 'The customer must define whether counts operate by item or lot.'
          - 'The customer must define item tolerances, count frequency, responsible roles, and approval policy.'
          - 'Configuration and testing effort cannot be sized before the inventory process and master data are inspected.'
        evidence_ids: []
      - name: 'Post approved discrepancies as inventory adjustment movements'
        classification: native
        conditions:
          - 'Only approved discrepancies outside the configured tolerance produce adjustment movements.'
          - 'Valid warehouse, location, item, unit, cost, and inventory-setting data must resolve.'
          - 'Financial posting depends on the configured inventory accounts and posting rules.'
        evidence_ids: []
      - name: 'Search stock-movement history by movement, product, location, lot, quantity, operation, creator, and time'
        classification: native
        conditions:
          - 'The history contains only movements recorded through the implemented inventory movement path.'
          - 'Users remain subject to configured record-access permissions.'
        evidence_ids: []
      - name: 'Require contextual reasons and review details for inventory adjustments'
        classification: configured
        conditions:
          - 'The customer must require staff to record a meaningful reason because the implementation field is optional.'
          - 'Adjustment access, approval, and review responsibilities must be configured.'
        evidence_ids: []
    expected_outcome_hypotheses:
      - 'A representative cycle count can state the variance between counted and recorded stock by item and location.'
      - 'An approved variance can update the system quantity through a traceable adjustment rather than an unexplained balance overwrite.'
      - 'Later inventory investigations can review movement and adjustment records instead of relying only on the current balance.'
    limitations:
      - 'The mechanism does not reconstruct or identify the transaction or process that originally caused a pre-existing variance.'
      - 'It cannot detect a physical receipt, movement, consumption, production event, or shipment that was never recorded.'
      - 'Movement history provides traceability but no verified automatic root-cause or first-divergence analysis.'
      - 'Count timing, concurrent movements, incorrect units, wrong locations, and counting errors can create apparent differences.'
      - 'Tolerance, approval, removal strategy, location, and financial-account configuration must be tested before use.'
      - 'MCP verification provides no accuracy, latency, concurrency, or reconciliation-effectiveness measurements.'
    prohibited_claims:
      - 'That replacing the incumbent system makes inventory accurate.'
      - 'That the mechanism automatically identifies the first incorrect transaction or the root cause of a variance.'
      - 'That every physical inventory event is captured without a controlled process test.'
      - 'That completing an adjustment prevents future inventory differences.'
      - 'That a variance proves theft, waste, employee error, or an application defect.'
      - 'Any quantified reduction in inventory variance, counting effort, loss, delay, or financial impact.'

Outstanding

1. proofIds is empty. Run W7 after at least one eligible evidence record exists.
2. Every capability has evidence_ids: []. The implementation checks from MCP server d8189168 are deployment-specific observations, not canonical evidence records. Route formal product evidence through W9.
3. Product implementation verification is partial. Native cycle-count, adjustment, and movement-history paths were verified, but automatic causal diagnosis was not.
4. Configured effort is unknown. Inspect the inventory process, master data, tolerance policy, roles, locations, and financial-account setup before estimating configuration work.
5. Priority 50 is approved for this draft only. Revisit it when the related problem has an approved priority and the solution catalog is ordered against current sales priorities.