Recieve Shipments

All Special Orders for customers and Stock Orders, which are entered via the computer, must be received in the Purchase Order Module.  To receive a Purchase Order, click Inventory: Purchase Orders: Receive Shipments. If you know the PO Number or Bill Of Sale Number, enter it in the box, and press Enter. Otherwise, click Lookup, find the PO in the list, and double-click it. The Purchase Order screen appears. 

If you have not entered the Invoice on Acknowledgement number, do it now!  (If you don't have the Invoice, or acknowledgement number, this number can be located on the Freight Bill.) Check the cost and edit it if necessary if you hadn't checked the cost when you got the acknowledgement.  The new cost automatically goes back into the sales order, and updates the Cost Of Goods Sold if the item is a Special Order.  In a stock shipment, if the cost is changed, the new cost goes back into the inventory database and updates the factory cost of the item.   

Tip: After you have clicked the Rec. All button, enter the invoice number in the first line item.  Click Rec. All again and the software will automatically populate the invoice number on all line items.  This saves many key strokes.

 

Next, the apply button will be activated.  Click the Apply button and the following form will appear on the screen. This form actually does the receiving.

The form shows the quantity ordered as 3.  Quantity Received in blue can be changed if the factory Back Orders some items.  Depending on how you pay your bills, whether upon "Receipt Of Goods or Actual Invoice Date"  Set the date to reflect the dating you want in A/P. For stock shipments as this, you have several options indicated by the bullet. 

Note: I do NOT recommend receiving the entire order by checking the check box.  This will definitely lead to missing back ordered items!

If you need to skip an item entirely, use the Skip button.  Stop receiving will stop any more processing of this Purchase Order. 

When you have completed the Purchase Order, a form comes up requesting any "Prepaid Freight".  Because we have completely integrated Accounts Payable, any Prepaid Freight by the factory must be accounted for so the software can distribute the invoice. 

If you don't have the Invoice yet, the date of the freight bill will be the date of shipment on the invoice.  It's always the same.  We need this date to set up the dating on the Accounts Payable side.  It later can be edited in the Accounts Payable module.

Click OK when done or leave blank if no prepaid freight is charged.  Message box comes up; Po Has Been Received!  Click OK .  You are asked if there are any more PO's to receive.  If not, you are returned to the Main Menu. 

Here's what receiving the PO's will do: