Implementing Manufacturing and Materials Management: From Empty Plant to Costed Work Order · Module 12 · Receiving
The receiving flow
Lesson 119 of 188 · 2 min
Five steps — expected receipt, receive, inspect where required, putaway, on-hand — and each one is a transaction with an accounting consequence. Hold on to that; it is why this module is not simply about a loading dock. Where receipts come from: purchase orders from Procurement, inter-organization transfers, returns from customers, and unordered receipts. Receiving is shared, and the boundary is worth being honest about. Purchase order matching, receipt accounting and supplier invoice matching sit largely on the Procurement side. You configure the receiving side and coordinate with whoever owns Procurement. If nobody owns Procurement on your project, that is a finding rather than a gap you quietly fill. Why routing matters: it determines whether material goes straight to stock, or sits in a receiving area first. That is an operational and a quality decision, not a system preference. And the sentence that changes how seriously the client treats this…
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