Best Practice for Foreign Shipments

[jculp]

We have a situation where goods are purchased from the Far East on payment terms of WT upon shipment. We're wondering what other people consider the best practice for handling this situation. Issues we're trying to address & resolve are:
- Goods are paid for a month before being received. Financially what types of accounts are being used?
- Customer Service should have visibility of when goods will actually be received not when they were shipped.
- DRP/MRP should account for these goods but not issue messages to expedite/defer/cancel these items.

We are configuring a receipt routing for this but this does not seem to address all the issues.

If you have this situation how are you handling it?

 

[rcodlin]

Can't comment on which accounts you want to use but receipt routing should handle the other issues. You can record when the goods are shipped and set this to be the point at which payment is required. You can then move the items to stock once the have been received and checked. You can then set which receipt routing quantities to consider on hand via processing options in the MRP generation and you can use the supply/demand inclusion rules to define at which status a purchase order should be consider for messages.