Accounting Best Practices, Fifth Edition

Efficiency Issues

16–7	Compare open purchase orders to current requirements
16–8	Reject unplanned receipts
16–9	Obtain advance shipping notices for inbound deliveries
16–10	Eliminate the receiving function
16–11	Use standard containers to move, store, and count inventory
16–12	Use different storage systems based on cubic transactional volume
16–13	Optimize inventory storage through periodic location changes
16–14	Eliminate the warehouse