Item handling

You can receive inventory and non-stock items in any valid buy unit of measure that is defined for the item on the purchase order. Special order items must be received in the buy unit of measure. Service and drop ship items are not received in Purchasing. A substitute item an item that you choose to substitute for another item. For example, you can define blue mugs as substitute items for yellow mugs. If yellow mugs are out of stock, then you can substitute blue mugs. Item substitution is not automatic and you can assign more than one substitute item to an item master item. Substitute items are set up in Inventory Control. You can also define substitute items for an existing PO line that have defined multiple vendor items using Substitute Vendor Item.

See the Inventory Control User Guide.