Understanding Purchase Receivers
A purchase receiver is a document that you use to manually record the receipt of goods upon delivery. A purchase receiver provides you with:
Original purchase order information.
Quantities that you have yet to receive.
A column for recording receipt quantities or amounts.
You might need a purchase receiver to:
Review purchase order information for incoming goods.
Confirm information about the items that you receive.
Record receipt information to enter in the system.
You determine the information that prints on purchase receivers. Processing options enable you to specify whether to print:
Price information
Order quantities
Cross-reference numbers
Foreign currency amounts
You can set up order activity rules to print purchase receivers as a step in the purchase order process. After you print a purchase receiver, you can have the system advance the order to the next step in the purchasing process. You can also have the system leave the order at its current status. To advance an order, the system updates the status codes for detail lines if you have set the processing options for Purchase Receiver Print (R43510) to enable the system to update the status codes.
You can print purchase order receivers in batch mode or by an individual order.
When you print purchase receivers in batch mode, you might have to print a second purchase receiver for some orders. For example, you might receive a partial order, in which case you must print a second receiver to record the remaining balance of the order. You can enter specific purchase orders for which to print purchase receivers using the Purchase Receiver Print program (R43510).