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  Goods Receipts for Orders

Use

If your company uses the PP Production Orders component, deliveries from production are the result of orders used as a basis for manufacturing the materials required.

The production order is not only the document on the basis of which a material is manufactured; it is also an important planning and tracking tool for the following departments: Materials Planning and Inventory Management.

Features

Reference to an Order

When material resulting from a production order is delivered, it is important for the departments involved that the goods receipt entry in the system reference this order, for the following reasons:

  • Goods receiving can check whether the delivery actually corresponds to what has been planned.

  • The system can propose data from the order during entry of the goods receipt (for example, the material produced, its quantity, and so on). This simplifies both the data entry and checking (overdeliveries and underdeliveries).

  • The quantity delivered and the delivery date are updated in the order.

The order number is usually listed on the slip accompanying the delivered material. If it is not listed on the slip accompanying the delivered material, you can find the order pertaining to the delivery via the material number (see Entering a Goods Receipt for an Order ).

Destination of the Goods

Finished goods can be posted either to the warehouse or consumption. Goods receipts into the warehouse and into consumption are posted with the same movement type.

Warehouse

If the material is intended for the warehouse, a storage location can be defined in the order. This storage location is then automatically proposed by the system during entry of the goods receipt, and you can accept or change it. If no storage location has been entered in the order, you must define a storage location when you enter the goods receipt.

Goods receipts for the warehouse can be posted to three different stock types:

  • Unrestricted-use stock

  • Stock in quality inspection

  • Blocked stock

It can be defined in the order whether or not the material is to be posted to stock in quality inspection. However, at the time of goods receipt you decide to which stock type the material is posted.

Consumption

If the material is intended for consumption (order items with account assignments), a recipient or an unloading point can be specified in the order. Both specifications are then automatically proposed by the system during entry of the goods receipt. You can still change the unloading point when you enter the goods receipt, but you cannot change the recipient.