Understanding Receipt Routing

You might want to track items from the moment that they leave a supplier's warehouse until they arrive in stock. Depending on the operation, several stops might exist between the two points, such as the dock, the staging area, inspection, and so forth.

You use receipt routing to track and move items through a series of operations that make up a receipt route.

You must define the operations that make up each receipt route. You must also determine the logistical and accounting updates that the system performs as you process items through a receipt route. After you create a receipt route, you can assign it to an item based on the supplier who provides the item. This diagram illustrates a typical receipt route:

Each time you enter a receipt for items, the system enters the items in the first operation of the receipt route. You must enter the items in subsequent operations of the receipt route. During each operation, you can:

• Remove items from the route due to returns, rejects, and so forth.

• Have the system automatically generate replacement orders for items that you return.