What is the best way to purchase goods using a GIT Location? We buy everything from our Head Office and we must book it as In-Transit while the goods have not arrived at our location. I've read a lot about using the Transfer Orders but there is not link between the Transfer Order and the original Purchase Order. And the lines of the Transfer Order are entered manually.
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Transfer orders are not meant to track purchasing items, the are meant to track consignments, subcontracting items and other stuff. This means that, if you want to fully use transfer orders, you should manage warehouse at the vendor/s , not only your location / in-transit location. You cannot use transfer orders if you do not own items (of course if you're not preventing from being negative) .
E.g. if you create a purchase order, you should pre-load items to be purchased at the vendor location, then create the transfer order in order to move items from vendor to you central location. Otherwise you should have negative items in bins / locations (and i don't think you want negatives ;) ).
It could be interesting to add a few lines of code in table "Purchase Order" in order to create item ledger entries lines in vendor's location at posting time, and change Posted Whse. Shipment Lines source type in orde to make them invoiceable (pickable in pruchase invoice subform) while receiving transfer orders through whse receipts, but honestly i haven't tried it so far. I think it could be safely and in a few hours!
I hope you can understand the whole process
Hi Marco... I want to track it. Or even better, for accouting purpose, those goods must be showing somewhere and the correct place is as in transit. Also I need to be able to pay my vendor.
Hello Amol,
This would be the best option. But I cannot select the GIT Location on the Purchase Order. The GIT location is not available to be selected. Then what I am doing at the moment is receiving the material in a Dummy location and then using the Transfer Order. Have you done a customization to be able to select the GIT location on the Purchase ORder level or am I missing something here?
Many thanks,
Gerson
Do you want to track in-transit goods or simply create a location for received "parked" goods ? This makes a point.
Hello Alexander,
We do have the warehouse integration and so our main location (and only Location) has pretty much everything as mandatory (picks, put-away, whs shpping, whs receive, bin, etc). I am missing a step here to receive the goods directly on the GIT location. Apparently I have to receive it in an Dummy location and use the Transfer Order to transfer from Dummy to my main location. And the goods will stay in the GIT as long as I ship but not receive from a Transfer Order.
Thanks a lot,
Gerson
Hello Marco,
We are actually purchasing. And we have to be able to invoice it without the good. From my understanding this should be something standard. This is pretty much importation. So can be from our head office but also from any vendor abroad.
Many thanks,
Gerson
One Option could be that you can select location in-transit as location code in purchase order and receive the material and then once goods arrived you can use transfer order to transfer material from in-transit to main location/sale-able location.
You can consider e.g. inventory put-aways to process the items in transit location msdn.microsoft.com/.../jj662720(v=nav.90).aspx . However we used to make customizations for receiving items in transit location and then moving them to another location and another GL account without manual input of items into the transfer order.
Another hint could be found here, a nice article about managing consignments and other stuff:
Are you purchasing or just moving items from head office to branch company ? In the 2nd case, working with SKU's (one for the head office and one for your warehouse, setting up trasfert location in the second SKU) together with Planning Worksheet should give you the chance to automate creation of transfer orders
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