Receiving overview

Receiving is the process of bringing product into the facility and specifying information into the ASN/Receipt when it arrives.

The Infor WMS Warehouse Management (WM) module can accommodate a wide range of receiving scenarios. Designed to integrate tightly with existing Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS), Order Management (OM), and other planning or execution systems, WM can receive inbound order information from many different sources.

The application can receive product in a validated (against a PO and ASN/Receipt) or invalidated (no PO or ASN/Receipt) manner.

You can specify information into the PO and ASN/Receipt in the following ways:

• Entering the information directly
• EDI
• Proprietary host interface.

After you specify receiving information, the application reports it to other systems using EDI or proprietary host interfaces. Receipts can be tracked down to the case or pallet ID level.

The WM receiving process includes all activities necessary to receive product into the facility, whether it involves actually unloading trucks, rail cars, or shipping containers at a loading dock, or recording the movement of product from an in-house assembly line into storage. The goal of receiving is to process product quickly and accurately and allow the office and the receiving dock to crosscheck each other.