Re: Taking possession 60 days before receiving product

Hi:

Until you receive the material into stock, MAPICS will not know that is 
here and will still plan the material.  You may need to report to MAPICS 
when the material arrives so it does not continue to plan for it.  That is 
why I believe that the RP transaction is critical in this activity.  In my 
humble opinion you can do this:

a) Set the PO to receive the material (RD and RP) at the warehouse in 
Shanghai.  By doing that, you update the purchase order, inventory and do 
the corresponding general ledger transactions correctly.

b) Ship the material to the US.

c) Once in US soil, you can do an interwarehouse transfer (TW) and you can 
move the material from the Shanghai warehouse location to the 
corresponding US warehouse location.  By doing that, you will be updating 
inventory (for both locations) and do the corresponding general ledger 
transactions correctly.

Just my 0.02 cents.  Other folks in the forum may correct me of course or 
bring more alternatives.

Best regards to all!


PETER VIDAL
PALL CORPORATION
SR System Analyst | WH Application Development
10540 Ridge Rd., Suite 203, New Port Richey, FL 34654-5111 
727-815-3104 | Fax: 727-815-3120 | www.pall.com 

"Imagination is more important than knowledge"
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)

> We are starting to take possession of product in Shanghai, but we don't
> want to do the RP transaction until the product reaches the plant in the
> US.  We are considering using the "RD" transaction to record the receipt
> of product in Shanghai.  Our goal is to not disrupt the normal receiving
> process at the plant and to provide purchasing with updated information
> on the status of the product.  We know we will have to do manual
> reversing journal entries at month-end to include this inventory in our
> general ledger.
>
>
>
> Questions:
>
> 1.       Are there any negatives to using the RD transaction this way?
>
> 2.       Does anyone have experience with a similar process?
>
> 3.       Are there issues we should consider before implementing such a
> process?
>
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