1 About Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory

Xstore Classic provides several functions to help you maintain your store's inventory through shipping, receiving, and counts. The information in this guide will help you understand what shipping, receiving, and inventory functions are available, how to access the functions you need, and how to use the processes for your business needs.

All merchandise items-whether entering the store through receiving and return functions or leaving the store through sales and shipping functions-are tracked using an inventory process. This inventory tracking performs at the item level, resulting in an audit trail from the time the item enters the store and continuing until the item leaves the store.

How this Guide is Organized

Receiving provides information about processing a shipment that has arrived in your store, including the actions you must take to add the received items into your store inventory.

Inventory Replenishment provides information about reviewing, and acting upon, suggested inventory orders created by the Home Office. The store can approve and/or edit the suggested orders and submit them to the vendor. In addition, this feature also gives stores the ability to create their own Inventory Replenishment orders.

Shipping provides information about transferring physical inventory to another store, vendor, warehouse, or customer. This chapter also includes information about creating documents, such as packing slips and shipping labels that are related to the transfer.

Physical Inventory Counting provides information about counting on- hand merchandise and updating local inventory. Xstore Classic provides three different types f inventory counts to meet specific business requirements: Physical Count, Cycle Count, and Supply Count. This chapter includes procedural information for creating and finding the count documents, creating count sheets, counting the on- hand merchandise, and entering the counts into the system.

Location Based Inventory provides information about using Location Based Inventory to track all merchandise items that leave or enter the store by associating the items with a specific inventory location. This item movement is tracked through Location IDs and Bucket IDs used to specify the physical location and the current status of each item in inventory.

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For information about printing labels, refer to the Oracle Retail Xstore Point of Service Classic Manager's Guide.