P/O Receipt Control # Entered (A56)

Purpose: Use this screen to define whether the system will assign a receipt control number to one or more shipment of goods.

Yes/no field: If you select this field, the system assigns a receipt control number to shipments of goods. A receipt control number allows you to link several purchase orders for a vendor together and to distribute the total freight, duty, and import charges across each item received by a vendor. See P/O Receipt Costing Calculation Method (A57).

You can also use this feature to group receipts together under a receipt control number for control purposes.

If you select this field, a Create P/O Receipt Control Screen opens before you perform PO Receiving. The PO Receipt Control screen does not require entry.

Leave this field unselected if you do not wish to assign a control number to receipts. If so, you cannot access the PO Receipt Control screen.

You must leave this field unselected if you dock stock, because the system assigns a receipt control number at the time you dock a purchase order. Additionally, if this field is unselected, you must not enter a value in the P/O Receipt Costing Calculation Method (A57) system control value.

Docking a purchase order indicates that you have received a shipment against an open purchase order, although you have not yet confirmed the contents of the shipment. See Docking Purchase Orders (MDPO).