Create and Enhance an Inventory Report

Topic at a glance

Business is booming, and as a result you’ve greatly increased your inventory. To keep track of inventory flow, you want to create a monthly inventory report.

With the Microsoft Access Report Wizard, you can quickly create a polished report that calculates the total units in stock and the percentage of the total made up by each product category. Each month, just open the report to get the latest facts and figures. When you update the database, Microsoft Access automatically updates the report data.

To complete the steps in this topic   you need Microsoft Office, Professional Edition or an individual copy of Microsoft Access installed. You also need to create the Categories and Products tables by using the steps in Move a Product List into Microsoft Access, or by using the Microsoft Access Table Wizard. However, you can use the techniques in this topic to create other Microsoft Access reports.