Receiving Miscellaneous Material

Use the Miscellaneous Receipts transaction to receive items that are not associated with an order. You can only receive material in containers if containers are in use at your site.

On the Move It module to receive items that are not associated with an order.

  1. Select Miscellaneous Receipt.
  2. Specify or review this information:
    Whse
    The warehouse at which the items are received.
    Item
    The item specified on the receiving line for Miscellaneous Receipts.
    Trx Cd Mfg and Exp Dt
    The transaction restriction code, manufacturing date and the expiry date of a new lot and serial items. You can select the required transaction restriction code and specify the manufacturing and expiry date for the lot, serial or lot serial items in the Lot Manufactured Date and Transaction Restriction Code window. The manufacturing date defaults to the current date and the expiry date defaults to the sum of manufacturing date and shelf life of the item.
    Note: The window is displayed only when the Lot/Serial Transaction restriction codes or Mfg date in use Global parameter is enabled.
    Location
    Location of the item stock room.
    Revision
    Revision of the item.
    Lot

    A lot numbers. When an item has different revision numbers to receive the quantity, the transaction process is cancelled.

    To Container
    Indicate if the container must be specified for receipt of the item. This field is only displayed if containers are in use at the site. If this value is set to Yes, you can specify the ID of Container to receive the item.
    Container
    If you are receiving items into an existing container, scan the container number. To receive items into a new container, leave the field blank to generate a new container number. This field is only displayed if you specified Yes in the To Container field.
    Reason
    The reason code for the material receipt. The default reason code is initially displayed.
    To Receive
    The item quantity to receive.
    Import Doc ID
    If applicable, specify the import document ID for tax-free import items.
  3. Select Process.
  4. Scan serial number for the item. Set Yes to the Generate field. Scan or select a serial number in the Serial field for each item to manually generate serial numbers. The Scanned field displays the total serial numbers to be scanned. Click Process after scanning the required serial numbers. Select Show List to view, or select Clear List to clear the list of available serial numbers.
  5. If the transaction is configured to automatically print labels, the labels are printed.
    If the transaction is configured to manually print labels, the Label Printing screen is displayed. Specify this information:
    Printer
    Select a printer.
    Label Per Box
    Specify the number of labels to print for each box.
    Qty Remaining
    The number of remaining labels to be printed is displayed.
    No of Boxes
    Specify the number of boxes to print labels.
    Qty Per Box
    Specify number of items available in each box.
  6. Select Print to print the labels, when the remaining labels to print is set to zero. Select Clear Labels to clear the No of Boxes and Qty Per Box fields.