RE: Process the Purchase return order
Hello Wakefield Hospital,
If you receive a Credit Memo from a Vendor and post that Credit Memo and you set the Applies-To Type and No. it will be applied to the Posted Purchase Invoice. You can do this after the fact if you forgot on the Purchase Credit Memo.
If your posted credit memo included the items returned, then NO you do not need to create a Purchase Return Order and associated Credit Memo. If you forgot to include the Items being returned, your only step would be an Item Journal, Positive Adjustment to bring the inventory back. Now you could reverse the Posted Credit Memo and start over with the Purchase Credit Return if you want to keep an audit trail of the entire transaction, which is the proper way to go.
To answer your last statement, the best practice and correct approach is to enter a Purchase Return Order whenever you are returning Inventory to a Vendor. You Post Ship that inventory and when the Vendor give you the Credit Memo, enter that Document No. in the Vendor Credit Memo No. field and Post Invoice. This is the approach I teach all my customers.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Steve