Processing New Inventory Requests
Approving Requests without Issuing Items
Users who are only responsible for approving inventory requests and not issuing the items, will use the following steps to process their assigned requests and send them on to the next user in the approval chain.
- Click on the number under Waiting For Approval on your Inventory home page.
- On the Process New Request screen, you will see the first Inventory request that is waiting for your approval. If you would like to process a different request, you can select it from the Unprocessed New Requests drop down list.
- To approve the request, select Approved in the Status field. *Note: Do not select Yes to Issue Inventory Now if you are not the final person in the approval process.
- If needed, you may also make changes to the Qty Approved field.
- Click Submit to approve the request and send it to the next user.
- The screen will refresh to show the next request needing approval.
Approving and Issuing Inventory Requests
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- Click on the number under Waiting For Approval on your Inventory home page.
- On the Process New Request screen, you will see the first Inventory request that is waiting for your approval. If you would like to process a different request, you can select it from the Process New Requests drop down list.
- Check Yes next to Issue Inventory Now? This will automatically change the status of the request to Approved.
- Select the Pool from which you are issuing the items and make any other necessary changes to the fields.
- Click Submit to save the issue transaction(s).
- The screen will refresh to show the next request needing approval.
Creating Back Orders
If you do not have enough on-hand inventory to fulfill a request you can create a back order for it. You can put the entire inventory request on back order. You can also partially fulfill the request by issuing some of the inventory now and putting the rest of the requested items on back order.
- If you need to put the entire request on Back Order, select Back Order from the Status drop down field and then click Submit. *Note: Pool is not required when creating a Back Order.
- If you would like to partially issue the request, select Yes in the Issue Inventory Now? field. This will change the status to Approved.
- Change the number in the Qty Approved box to reflect the amount of items you are issuing now.
- Check the box next to Create a back order request for the remaining quantity not issued? to create a back order for the remaining quantity.
- Click Submit to create the partial issue transaction and the back order.
Processing Back Orders
- In the Waiting for Approval section of the home page, click on the number next to Back Order.
- This takes you to a list of Back Order requests. Click on the Item Number of the request you would like to process.
- Select Yes next to Issue Inventory Now?
- Select the Pool from which you are issuing the inventory.
- Click Submit to save.
