Scenarios for receipt of material
Straight material purchase of one or more coil(s) shipped to any location.
Create purchase order for the material.
Receive the material from your purchase order. (Do not put in a freight cost when receiving)
Create a release to move material from its current location to yours. (Make the release type is set to “Transfer-Location”) For more information on release types, Refer Releasing Types.
Once the material has arrived, complete the transfer, and close the release. This will mark the material as being at the new location.
Purchase of one or more coil(s) shipped to an outside processor for processing, and then shipped to any location.
Create purchase order for the material.
Receive the material from your purchase order. (Do not add in a freight cost when receiving)
Create an outside processing order for the material received. Refer Slitting Orders. Refer Cut to Length Orders.
Create a release for the master tag to be shipped to the processor's location. (Make the release type is set to “Transfer-Location”) For more information on release types, see here.
Once the material has arrived, complete the transfer, and close the release. This will mark the material as being at the new location.
After the processing order is complete, and you have received a production report from the processor, receive the new material off the outside processing order.
Create a release to move the new material to its next location.