Receive inventory
Shipments that arrive from vendors or from other stores or warehouses for inventory replenishment or for fulfilling sales orders, can be received at a store.
You can receive inventory by shipments or cartons or by products.
When you are receiving inventory by shipments or cartons, once shipments arrive at the store, the receiving process is initiated by scanning the cartons in the shipment. You, as a store associate, can view the incoming shipments from various sources and start the receiving process by scanning the shipment number or carton number.
The actual receiving is done by scanning the cartons, if carton information is available. Alternatively, cartons can be received manually. Further, you can record damages for inbound shipments. If the shipment looks good overall or if the shipment is from a good-faith vendor or for other reasons, you can receive the complete shipment without scanning the cartons.
When you are receiving inventory by products, after the shipments arrive at the store, you can initiate the receiving process by scanning the products, SKUs, or serial number of the SKUs.
- View the count and list of the shipments received, incoming (today and in the current week) and delayed in the receiving portlet.
- Receive inbound shipments by scanning either the shipment or carton number or by manually receiving cartons.
- Receive a complete shipment in one go.
- Record damages for cartons.
- Receive a shipment partially and keep the receipt open. Further, the same receipt can be used to receive the remaining shipment.
- Undo the receive process for a carton.
- Receive a shipment partially and close the receipt. Further, a new receipt can be used to receive the remaining shipment.
- Look up the shipments to be received by using the Advanced Search feature.
- Switch to another shipment while scanning cartons.
- Filter the incoming and received shipments list based on various criteria.
- Add notes to inbound shipments.
- Record the damage for serialized and non-serialized products.
- Undo the receiving process for serialized and non-serialized products.
- Receive a shipment by scanning the loose SKUs in the shipment only when the ASN does not have container details. If container details are available, the shipment must be received by scanning containers. Alternatively, they can be manually received.
- View pallets as well as cases in the receiving and shipment summary screen, if the shipment has pallets.
- Record discrepancy of the Under Receipt type when one or more cartons are not received.
- Record discrepancy of the Over Receipt type when you receive extra inventory for serialized or non-serialized products.
- Receive inbound shipments by scanning the order number.