Receiving Nonstock Items Using RF

When you receive nonstock product on individual purchase orders (P/O), you can set up the system to alert you that the product you are receiving is a nonstock product. You can also have the system alert you that the product fills a sales order within the plenty date or a transfer order at a child branch so you can immediately cross dock the product. You can display the quantity of the product that needs to be staged for the order or display the staging location.

The system determines whether an item is nonstock within the receiving branch using the following logic:

In Product Maintenance:

If the item's status is nonstock, then the system treats the item as nonstock in RF receiving.
If the item's status is stock, then the system looks to the data in Primary Inventory Maintenance.

In Primary Inventory Maintenance:

If the item is nonstock for the receiving branch, then the system treats the item as nonstock in RF receiving.
If the item is stock for the receiving branch, then the system treats the item as stock in RF receiving. The system also treats the item as stock for the receiving branch if the branch has met the minimum number of hits for the item.
If the item has not been defined as stock or nonstock for the receiving branch, then the system looks to the item's stock status in the central warehouse scheme.

In the central warehouse scheme:

If the type defined is Top Down for the item, then the item will be treated as nonstock for the receiving branch.
If the type defined is Bottom Up for the item, then the item will be treated as stock for the receiving branch+
. The system also treats the item as stock if the Network has met the minimum number of hits for the item.

You must perform the following set up for the system to direct you in receiving nonstock product:

In Product Maintenance, define all nonstock and stock products.
In Primary Inventory Maintenance, define whether stock items within a receiving branch are stock or nonstock.
In Procurement Group Maintenance, set up procurement groups needed for nonstock branch transfer products.
In Product Maintenance, assign procurement groups to all of your nonstock product involved in branch transfers.
Define staging locations for each branch in both the RF W/H Area To Store Hot Nonstock Items control maintenance record and the RF W/H Area To Store Hot Nonstock Transfer Items control maintenance record.

To receive nonstock product using the RF system:

From the Warehouse Management > RF Applications > RF Main Menu, select Recv Verify to display the Recv Verify screen.

Note: If prompted, log on to the character-based system.

Scan the product you are receiving. The system displays the following:

Top Right Corner	Location	Quant
NS - The product is a nonstock item, but cannot fill an order.	Blank, unless a nonstock location is defined in the system. If a nonstock location is defined in the system, then that location displays.	Depending on your settings in the RF Receive Verify Prompt To Enter Quantity control maintenance record, either the expected quantity or blank.
NSS - The product is a nonstock item that can fill a sales order within the plenty date.	The staging location defined for nonstock sales orders.	The quantity that can fill the sales order.
NST - The product is a nonstock item that can fill a transfer order at a child branch.	The staging location plus the branch to where the product is being transferred.	The quantity that can fill the transfer order. The system displays quantities for the parent branch before the child branch. This display ensures that the parent branch's order is filled first.

Do one of the following to receive the item and place it in the needed location:

NS - Receive the product as you would a stock product.
NSS or NST - Scan the product either into a tote or directly into the displayed staging location.

Note: In order to place an item directly into a location without scanning a tote, the RF Scan Location To Tote For Immediate Put Awaycontrol maintenance record must be activated and the RF Enable Tote Validationcontrol maintenance record must be de-activated. If the staging location is defined in Zone Maintenance you can scan the tote with both of the above control maintenance records activated. If the RF Enable Tote Validation control maintenance record is activated, you cannot scan the product directly into the staging location. Instead you must scan a tote and use it to stage the product.

Place the displayed quantity into the tote or staging location.
If you placed the product into a tote, use the PutAwy hot key to locate the product into the staging location.
If quantity remains for the nonstock product, receive it as needed, or press Esc to save updates and exit the screen.