Access 1000 provides a number of receiving options under the control of the hand-held operator.

Inventory may be received without a purchase order, given a reason code. Reason codes are set up and maintained by the supervisor at an administrative PC.

Purchase order information is expected to be created on the Business System and communicated to Access 1000. Please refer to WMS Application Software and Enterprise System Interfaces for a discussion of the relationship of applications between the Business System and Access 1000.

Purchase orders may be provided for vendor purchase, vendor purchase by carton, returned goods authorization, receiving of finished goods from a manufacturing facility, or other purpose as required.

Access 1000 includes integrated product labeling capabilities as part of receiving to provide for bar code labeling of inventory, if required, when it enters the warehouse. See Label Printing for more information.

To initiate receiving against a PO, the operator enters the PO number and scans the receiving location bar code. If the receiving is to be reconciled by carton with the PO, the carton number is also entered.

Then the operator makes a receiving entry for each inventory SKU by scanning the bar code and keying the quantity. If the SKU is not expected for the carton or PO, or if the quantity is higher than expected, the operator is notified and given the opportunity to either re-enter or accept the entry.

At any time during the receiving process, the operator can interrupt the receiving to check the status of the carton or PO. The display shows the number of line items on the carton or PO and the number of line items not completely received. The user has the option at this time of indicating from the hand-held that a detailed reconciliation report should be printed for the carton and/or PO.

If receivings were entered in error, the problem can be corrected by conducting an "un-receive" operation at the hand-held. Just as when receiving, the operator scans the product number bar code and enters the quantity of the product to be subtracted from the carton or PO.

When the receiving person is satisfied with all receiving entries for a carton or PO, the carton or PO can be closed. Then Access 1000 creates the inventory at the receiving location and reports the new inventory to the business system.

The system allows inventory to be received either to a designated receiving staging location or to a normal storage location. Users may wish to receive into the normal storage location in order to skip the put-away step.

Received inventory is available for immediate allocation to orders. If the business system is holding back orders for the inventory, it may immediately issue a sales order to Access 1000. The system can be set up to allocate inventory first from designated receiving locations and to prevent put-away of allocated inventory. This option provides the ability for inventory to be "cross-docked," saving unnecessary handling of inventory and increasing its availability to the customer.

As part of the receiving process, Access 1000 schedules put-away actions. (But see Quarantine for exceptions.) See Put-Away for a discussion of the put-away process.