Purchasing

Physical receipts versus supplier bills

Understand when stock fulfilment is recorded separately from financial documents.

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Understand when stock fulfilment is recorded separately from financial documents.

Step by step

  1. 1Confirm whether Separate GRNs and deliveries is enabled for the applicable stock workflow. Do not assume every workspace uses the same stock policy.
  2. 2For the separate-fulfilment workflow, open Inventory → Stock Fulfilment and use the relevant supplier goods receipt process.
  3. 3Select the applicable source and branch, then record the quantities that physically arrived. Include batch and expiry details where required.
  4. 4Review remaining quantities before completing a receipt so partial deliveries are not received twice.
  5. 5Record the supplier bill through Purchasing → Bills for the financial liability and check the associated physical receipt separately.

For opted-in stock fulfilment, bills do not substitute for physical goods receipts and invoices do not substitute for dispatch. Other workflows retain their existing document-driven stock behaviour.