Desktop Receiving

In the Procurement application, you can use Desktop Receiving to acknowledge receipt of goods after comparing the following:

• Items in the shipment,
• Contents of the Packing Slip accompanying the shipment
• Contents of an Advance Ship Notice that preceded the shipment,
• Contents of the Shopping Cart and Orders that originated the purchase.

Desktop Receiving assumes that shipments go directly to the buyer who ordered the items.

In fact, receiving procedures may vary between organizations. Receiving may involve a combination of:

• Dock receiving,
• Dock distribution, and
• Desktop receiving.

The Procurement application handles only the desktop receiving version of this process, in which shipments may pass through the dock, but are not actually received at the dock.

Organizations that have existing dock receiving and dock distribution processes, and receive products on the dock, may regard desktop receiving as optional. Check with your Procurement application Administrator.

If you are responsible for Desktop Receiving:

9. Click Confirm Goods Received in the Procurement Home Page Orders Menu.

The Procurement application displays the Receiving List page with a list of Orders with items ready to be received. You can click on the Receive Action icon to begin receiving:

Click this icon to Receive the items in this Order.

If an Order does not yet contain any receivable items:

• It does not appear in the Receiving List.
• It is displayed in the Order Status page, but does not have a Receive Action icon beside it.

Note: You may also go directly to Desktop Receiving by clicking the Receive Action icon in the Orders List page.