Receiving

Deliveries checked at the dock, not at the end of the week.

Scan each delivery against its purchase order, record supplier lot and expiry, and label it for every later scan.

7-day free trial, no card required. Receiving, lots and GS1-128 labels are in every plan.

Receiver in hair cover, mask, safety glasses, white coat, hi-vis vest and gloves scanning a wrapped pallet of sacks at a dock while a colleague in the same protective clothing moves a pallet truck
  • Checked at the dock.

    Operators scan against the open purchase order, so short or wrong deliveries show up on arrival.

  • The supplier lot stays with it.

    Supplier lot, expiry and certificate are kept on the lot from the first scan.

  • One label for every later scan.

    A GS1-128 label printed at receipt is what the warehouse scans from then on.

Follow one delivery

Dock 2 · PO-4410 · native starch

Captured at the dock, reviewed by a person

Try it: tap Scan to capture each item on the tablet, then review the receipt.

Receiving · PO-44100/5
  • Pallet 1—
  • Pallet 2—
  • Supplier lot—
  • Expiry—
  • Certificate—
Receipt review opens once the dock capture is complete.

Worked example. What happens to a short delivery follows your purchasing process. V5 stores the certificate; your QC judges it.

How receiving works: checks, lots, documents and labels

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PO-4410 · receiving
Dock 2
  • Pallet 11,000 kg · matched
  • Pallet 2950 of 1,000 kg
  • Supplier lotST-88213
  • Expiry2027-08-31

Captured at the dock.

Matched line by line

  • Quantity, unit, supplier lot and expiry are captured at the dock.
  • Each line is checked against the open purchase order.

What happens to a short delivery follows your purchasing process.

More on match po: full record and set-up

Also on this record

Unit
kg

Short or over quantities are visible straight away.

Photos
Vision AI can read a supplier label from a photo; a person checks it.
Free practical guide · 22 pages

Inventory & Traceability: The Practical Operations Guide

From goods-in to dispatch: practical controls for locations, usable stock, movements, counting, picking and traceability. Use it with or without V5.

  • 1Capture each delivery once, with its supplier lot.
  • 2Hand receipt evidence to a quality decision.
  • 3Test a clean receipt and a problem delivery.
See what's inside
  • How to capture a delivery once: match it to the order, keep the supplier lot and route damage or missing evidence.
  • How receipt evidence hands over to a quality decision and an authorised stock status.
  • Five working tools, including exception tests to try a clean receipt and a problem delivery.

Chapters: using the guide · the stock record · goods-in · locations · eligibility · movements · counting · picking and dispatch · traceability · quality handover · planning · automation and people · connections · implementation · measurement · five working tools · next step.

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Guide page 11: quality handover — receipt evidence, a quality decision and the authorised status the warehouse seesGuide page 4: goods-in — capture the delivery once, match the arrival, keep the supplier lot and route exceptionsCover of the Inventory & Traceability: The Practical Operations Guide

Where the trace starts

Receiving creates the lot every later step and trace uses.

WMSSales & purchasingTraceability

What's included

What receiving uses, and which plan each item needs. Compare plans

At the dock

Match, store, hold, label.

Inventory, receiving, putaway · Lots, traceability, GS1-128 labels · Sales & purchasing

Explore receiving
  • Inventory, receiving, putaway
    Delivery against the PO.
  • Lots, traceability, GS1-128 labels
    Licence plates.
  • Sales & purchasing
    Purchase orders and matching.
  • Vision AI / OCR
    Reads supplier labels and certificates; people check.

Quality releases received stock. V5 doesn't judge certificates.

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