In Purchase Order it would be great to have a field for the Tracking Number available for a couple of reasons.
1. To be able to have the tracking number available to track the shipment instead of searching
thru paperwork.
2. Having the shipment tracking number on the PO would assist with reconciliation
when utilizing Landed Cost in an RGE. (i.e. Make sure we've received the freight
company invoice and know what it was for.)
If a PO Tracking Number field could be carried thru to history it would be very helpful.
strew@gltcos.com
by: Shelia T. | over a year ago | Sales & Distribution
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I agree, this is a great idea, what i would really like to see as well is ability to combine PO's into one shipment with one tracking number (or BOL) all linked so shipment can be treated as a batch, and if arrival date changes they will all be linked without having to go in and edit every PO.
Reconciling Freight has been an issue for years. Adding the tracking number streamline the search.
One down side is that the tracking number that many PO will have many tracking numbers for one PO.
If your company has a business reason to add a tracking number why not add a UDF? You could have this feature tomorrow.
It would seem better to have the tracking number added to the receipt of Goods. This too could be done with a UDF.
Richard,
Sure, we could create UDF's, we do that all of the time. However, when an idea arises that may benefit others, why not post it on the Ideas website to incorporate it into the software? That's what the Idea Page is for. :)
Multiple tracking numbers do occur for PO's and only having the tracking number in the Receipt of Goods would benefit the reconciliation process, however, would not provide a convenient way to actually obtain the tracking number if you have not yet physically received the goods. So the purpose for this is two-fold, to provide the tracking number as a reference before and after the product arrives.
strew@gltcos.com
On Receipt of Invoice, I key the G# into the comments. This allows better matching when we are shy invoices at end of month.
Would like to automate the process even further and have a hyper link or live link of some sort back to a database and ask the vendors to populate the info.