Receiving and Put Away
Receiving and Put Away
This domain tests inbound material flow: purchase order receipts, ASNs, receipt routing, and put away. The exam expects you to know how material becomes on-hand and where it lands before storage.
Core rules
- A receipt can be created against a purchase order, an ASN, or an inbound shipment. Receipt routing determines whether goods go directly to delivery, to a receiving subinventory, or to inspection.
- Receiving tolerances control over-receipt and under-receipt. Receipt quantities must respect the PO line and tolerance setup.
- Put away rules determine the destination subinventory and locator. Rules can be based on item, category, organization, or locator search order. A default put away rule can be defined.
- Put away can be manual or automatic. Until put away is completed, the material may sit in a receiving subinventory and may not be available for picking.
Worked example
A PO for 100 units arrives. You receive 100 into the Receiving subinventory because the receipt routing is Standard. A put away rule for category Electronics directs the material to Storage and a locator chosen by search order. You run put away and the on-hand moves from Receiving to Storage. The reasoning: the receipt creates on-hand in the receiving area; put away changes the subinventory and locator but not the total inventory organization quantity. If the rule finds no valid locator, put away fails and the material remains in Receiving.
Traps
- Assuming receipt alone makes material pickable; put away or direct delivery may be required.
- Receiving into the wrong inventory organization, which cannot be fixed by a simple subinventory transfer.
- Ignoring over-receipt tolerance and forcing a receipt that exceeds the PO.
- Forgetting that put away rules use a search order; the first matching rule wins.