The Inventory Receive Process Explained
How you can improve your warehouse’s receive process
Warehouses see a lot of foot traffic and activity everyday, which makes very important that your daily inventory receive process goes smoothly. This is to ensure that your warehouse inventory is always accounted for and your operations run efficiently. You can make sure your receiving dock is never clogged up with our warehouse inventory systems, reducing delays in your warehouses.
Our Warehouse Management Systems gives businesses the opportunity to streamline the Inventory Receive process. With this feature, users can receive 4 different types of warehouse inventory and choose the location for each item for effective inventory management.
Where to Receive Inventory?
Set Up Predefined or Default Locations
We understand the complexity that comes with warehouse operations and the receiving process when it comes to inventory. With our feature, you can receive inventory items in our systems to predefined or default locations. By setting up predefined locations this way, you cut down on a chunk of manual tasks. Instead of painstakingly entering a location over and over again in your warehouse management workflows, our systems automatically provide you with a list of locations that are predefined by you that you can choose from.
We took into account the possibility that there might be some items that are always received to a specific location each time. For cases like that, you can set a default location for certain inventory stock so whenever you receive and scan those items in the future, our systems will auto-populate the default location.
Precise Warehouse Inventory Management
Our systems include a variety of units of measurement
When entering an inventory item into our systems, we made it easy for you to record every detail necessary. That’s why we included a Unit of Measurement field in our Receive Inventory feature. This helps you accurate track inventory turnover rates to optimize stock levels. Here are some units of measurement that can be included when you receive inventory:
- Quantity
- Volume
- Length
- Weight
Configure Custom Fields
Learn about User Defined Fields
When using our warehouse inventory software, your System Administrators have access to add configurable fields within the receive inventory feature. This is very useful as you can create fields to track your inventory items according to their specific needs.
Some examples of how our customers used this function include:
- Color
- Serial Number
- Manufacturing Date
- QA Date
Types of Warehouse Inventory
The Four Different Types of Inventory You Can Receive
In our systems, inventory are categorized into a few different types for the ease of understanding and use of your staff. For more in-depth understanding on these types,
Standard Inventory
The most basic form of inventory items. They can be anything from pens and pencils to desks or chairs.
Serialized with Quantity
This includes inventory with a unique serial number and still have a quantity per roll that can be consumed by length. An example would be wire spools.
Batch-Lot Inventory
These inventory items are manufactured or produced in batches. This includes medications, medical supplies or any type of inventory that might have an expiry date.
Serial Number Inventory
Inventory items that can be managed with a unique identifier. A serial number is a unique set of numbers assigned to an inventory item, making it easy to track. An example could be solar panels.
Warehouse Management Mobile App
Work On The Go and Manage Inventory with Your Mobile Devices
With our Warehouse Inventory Management Mobile App, you can easily receive inventory without having to carry around extra equipment. Your system administrator can pre-configure settings our Mobile App to include routines like default quantities or locations. This would cut out the time spent on entering the quantity or location each time an item is received. All you need is a compatible mobile device, and you can start scanning barcodes and receive inventory through our mobile app.
