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Receiving into a location within an outlet

James Clark

Hello

I'm considering changing a property to be a 'location' based property with all outlets having locations underneath them.

How does this affect the receiving process? We are also going to make use of expiry date capture on receipt - does this mean users, at the point of PO receiving will be prompted to enter the volumes received and then also the expiry dates AND the location within which the stock will be stored? 

Thanks

James

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  • David Fournier
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    Good afternoon James Clark,

    Thank you for your query.

    Outlet Locations are primarily used for separating Products/Recipes into physically-separate spaces & being able to manage within core-Adaco a 'shelf-to-sheet' counting sequence; from a transactional perspective, e.g. Receiving, Requisitions/Transfers, & Sales depletions, the inventory is held at the overall Outlet-level & cannot be chosen within a transaction.

    We recommend that for Outlets such as central storerooms/warehouses that need to fulfill requisitions through the use of Pick Lists, where the physical location is relevant, to use Location-based Outlets noting that it requires an extra level of effort to manage the Locations; for all other Outlets, we recommend Category-based since within Adaco Mobile: Counting App, the Outlets themselves can build & manage Areas outside of core-Adaco to expedite the counting/inventory process.

    If you enable Receiving Enable Shelf Life (or Authorize temperature validation), the relevant data would need to be entered in core-Adaco Receiving for the respective categories of Products but as I alluded to above, the Location would not be prompted as it is not transaction-dependent.

    Please let us know if you have any follow-up questions on this topic.

    Best

    David

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  • James Clark

    Thanks David, that's very helpful

    My follow on question would therefore be, how do users attribute stock to a location, if this isn't required information at the point of receiving? 

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  • David Fournier
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    Good morning James Clark,

    Stock is not attributed to a specific location via the transactions themselves, whether Receiving, Requisitions/Transfers, or Sales depletions, etc.; the value is held at the overall Outlet level, cumulative of any inventory/stock-takes plus or minus transactions.

    While multiple locations, or again our recommendation of Mobile Counting Areas in most Outlets, allow for added efficiency for the stock-take/inventory process, it does not have any operational impact on the transactions that occur during the period.

    Best

    David

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  • James Clark

    Hi David

    I'm coming on this one - I have a product that is showing in 3 different location inventory guides. Can I tell Adaco at the point of transacting with the product which location to use? e.g. I have a stock receipt and I want to receive it into Location 1. 

    Thanks

    James

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  • David Fournier

    Hi James,

    No you cannot, as from a transactional perspective, e.g. Receiving, Requisitions/Transfers, & Sales depletions, the inventory is held at the overall Outlet-level & cannot be chosen within a transaction.

    Best

    David

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