For tiny orders (just a couple items), generating a PO in Manager is onerous.
Is there any problem with simply manually adjusting quantities of items in the order (as long as we also manually average the final inventory values as well)?
I saw some fields that track when an item was last ordered, etc. I am guessing that info will be thrown off by a "manual receiving" method.
Will anything else get screwed up by this?
Please Cc me directly in your response.
Thanks.
As you note, the weighted average cost will not be recalculated.
A "Manual Adjustment" will be entered in the Inventory Transfer Log (Used for Item Movement reports), so you will be able to track that inventory was modified, but you won't know why.
Manual Adjustments are not a recommended practice (at least by me), but no they will not mess up anything other than the cost. They provide less of an audit trail than receiving on POs, and sort of encourage sloppy practice in general.
Glenn Adams Tiber Creek C> For tiny orders (just a couple items), generating a PO in Manager is > onerous. >
We've done nothing but manual entry since getting the system. POs take much more time to create than I can do it by hand. If the interface was better it would help but at this point POs aren't worth it for me. And yes the last entry dates do not modify this way. Personally I don't see where this is a sloppy practice. Just verify what you enter before you click okay and you are fine.
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I find it far easier to adjust my pricing as I manually enter than to do it via a PO. Besides that, we have a lot of items that constantly change and that we special order. Also vendors change from time to time as well. Maybe if I put some more time into setting up the PO system it may prove easier to use, but until I can put some time into it I have a far easier time doing it manually. Plus it doesn't interface with my vendors' web ordering interface at all so I end up doing a PO and doing it manully anyway if I use POs. It may very well just be the type of business I run that causes the difficulties. We do Paint/Floor Covering and there are so many variables in our products it's hard to use some functions of the RMS system for it. We'd probably be better off with a straight invoicing program but I couldn't find any that works as a register as well.
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