Receipt of stock is normally entered against purchase orders, shipment notifications or invoices. Stock may be received and putaway into its designated locations in the one process. The putaway location is predetermined based on the putaway category assigned to locations and to items, and on the item volume received (calculated from item dimensions and received quantity) relative to location dimensions.

Use of RF terminals allows receipts and putaways to be handled separately, thus optimizing working efficiencies. Stock receipts can be performed by one resource, with other resources doing putaways interleaved with other tasks.

Received items may be putaway to multiple locations and to multiple zones (for example cross dock, picking, bulk). Cross docking of received goods greatly improves speed of fulfillment of orders for goods on backorder. Putaway rules are defined independently for Returns and Receipts.

Putaway categories are assigned to each location depending on the type of use the location is best for (fast moving, slow moving, new release, heavy/bulky, reserve, etc). Putaway categories are also assigned to items so they go into the most appropriate type of location.

The selection of location to put away received goods is based on priority sequence of zones, putaway categories, volume considerations, existing location usage, backup locations, etc.

Stock receipting results in the running of various programs, producing reconciliation reports such as a Preliminary Shipment and Short Shipment report. The Preliminary Shipment report indicates the items to be received and the quantity of each item. The Short Shipment report indicates the items received and the receipted quantities. The stock report code for each receipted item can be automatically updated from “not yet received” to “received”.

Shipping receipts entry

This program is used to process purchase receipts by shipment number or purchase order number in a location controlled warehouse.

The role of receipt entry is to confirm or negate the entries made in Shipment/invoice Entry. The shipment/invoice entries are used to receive goods and distribute them directly between bin and bulk locations.