Hello,
My company recently enabled the Ariba auto receipt feature. Since making the change we have discovered some limitations that have made it difficult to use the auto receiving functionality.
To name a few obstacles,
1. Auto receiving is scheduled based on supplier lead time. This would work great if a supplier and carrier service always delivered the product on time. Because my company uses Ariba to purchase inventory items we find that our inventory levels are not accurate when product gets received before we actually receive it. Ideally we would be able to select which vendors we would like to have items auto received.
2. Auto receipts cannot be edited. If for some reason we need to back out an auto receipt there is currently no way to do this.
3. Need the ability to over ride an auto receipt. EX: receiving should be able to manually receive if the product arrives early.
More flexibility is needed in order for my company to continue to use auto receipts. I'm just wondering if there is anyone else who has come across some of these same obstacles when choosing to enable this feature. Maybe, if others are struggling, we could get a few enhancements to make auto receiving more flexible.
Thanks for reading,
Matt Benusa.