Inbound shipments provide visibility of in-transit inventory and the status of a shipment. Items from multiple purchase orders can be assigned to an incoming shipment and bulk received and billed from within the record.
The internal ID for this record is “inboundshipment”.
An order is identified as an inbound shipment when a vendor packs the purchase order items to ship to the buyer’s receiving destinations. Inbound Shipment Management enables you to track shipments when they leave the supplier, to the receiving destination, and then into the buyer’s inventory.
Inbound shipment records track shipment information such as expected delivery dates, items in the shipment, quantity to be received, and links to documentation and transactions. You can assign items from multiple purchase orders to the shipment and then receive, bill, and transfer them from the newly created record. Landed costs can also be applied to an inbound shipment.
If you use the Inbound Shipment Management feature, you can receive orders and create item receipts for inbound shipments on a mobile device. As you process inbound shipments, NetSuite WMS automatically updates associated transactions and inventory details on item records. NetSuite WMS provides the Receive All option that enables you to receive an entire inbound shipment line at the same time. You can receive all expected lots or serialized items if the inbound shipment records are populated with inventory details.