Utilizing Inbound Shipments and processing Item Receipts

Once a purchase has been created in the system, the business will find a way to communicate that to their Vendor, via email, a portal created especially for that purpose, or as a worst case, via printed paper copies when necessary. The Vendors then queue up the work and let us know when we can expect to receive the items. For products coming from one country to another, such as is commonly the case for purchases made from Asian manufacturers and suppliers, we sometimes want to track those shipments as they are in progress. NetSuite offers us the Inbound Shipment transaction for this. The fields for these records natively allow us to track a status (To Be Shipped, In Transit, and others), a list of items in a shipment (most commonly this is a container being transported via a ship), the related Landed Costs, and more.

For the companies that need this feature, we usually want to associate various sets of items from multiple...