Transferring inventory items by shipment

You use shipments to transfer inventory items or tools between storerooms within an organization. Shipment records monitor information about the transfer of items from an inventory storeroom and the receipt of the same items at the destination site or storeroom.

About this task

You can create shipment records for transfer records that have either Entered status or Staged status. You use the Shipment Receiving application to record the receipt of shipped items. When you ship items to a location within the same site, purchase orders are not required.

Procedure

  1. From the Inventory Usage tab of the Inventory Usage application, select the transfer record for which you want to create a shipment.
  2. Click Set inventory usage record to Shipped status and change the status of the inventory usage record to Shipped.
  3. In the Create Shipment window, specify the shipment information and save the record.


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