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title: "Purchasing & Receipting Overview"
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Controlling the flow of stock allows a business to take advantage of the savings associated with fostering a working relationship with creditors as well as maintaining a healthy gross profit. Haphazard handling of the  Purchasing and Receipting  processes can result in an understatement or overstatement of the value of inventory, the consequences of which infiltrate right through a business. For ProStix to work as designed, purchasing staff need to create purchase orders for the required goods from the appropriate supplier. The goods receiving clerk then receives the goods into stock as soon as they arrive. This adds the goods into the system and creates entries in the Goods Receipts file, awaiting the arrival of the invoice from the supplier. Refer to the  Purchasing & Receipting Training Manual  for further information. Features of Purchasing and Receipting include: