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Each day, when a new mobile database is transmitted to the mobile devices, the
current outstanding purchase orders are also sent. When the items arrive at the
site, the warehouse employees match the orders to the printed receivers, then
begin unpacking and scanning the items as received. The quantity does not
appear on the mobile devices’ Receive screen, and the manager prefers that the
employee not know how m any should be in the order. This is a “blind receive”
that can increase accuracy. If more quantity is received than was ordered, the
software will catch this when the device is synced back to the PC. If this
happens, the supervisor will inspect the order to recount and take steps to adjust
thecountinthePC(andreturnanover-shipment,ifnecessary).
On the mobile devices, the items a re marked as received (on the Receive
screen) into a temporary location labeled Dock. The items will stay on the
receiving dock until the m obile devices are synced to the PC and the Received
counts are processed. At this point, item labels are printed for each received
item. The employees take the labels for the items they received, affix the labels
to the items and physically move them to their proper locations, at which time a
Move transaction is created on the mobile device to indicate the items were
moved from the Dock to their primary location.
Business Type – Fleet
Our fleet business example, Rusty’s Cable Service creates purchase
orders following the same method as distributing – the Item Stock
Level List is reviewed and purchase orders are created based on this report.
Theonlydifferenceinthewaythesetwobusinessesdealwithpurchaseorders
and receiving is that items are marked as received into the Storage Area where
they are physically placed. When the devices are synced and labels are printed,
the labels are affixed to the items in the storage area. As those items are
needed to replenish the stock in the trucks, they are moved (a Move transaction
is created on the mobile device) to the individual truck.
Business Type – Reseller
This business uses the Standard version of InventoryControl which
does not have Purchase Order capability.