1) Receiving
The various truck receiving activities are determined by the type of operation. Most of the these activities include yard control, vendor delivery truck or container dock scheduling, unloading product into the inbound staging area, verifying the product quality and quantity, entering the receipts into inventory, identifying the product, packaging the product and transporting the product to the storage area.

2) Unloading activities
Unloading is the second receiving activity. The goods will be transferred from the vendor’s container or truck onto the receiving dock staging area. The various delivery truck unloading method are manual, using conveyor equipment, using manual or powered mobile pallet equipment and using automatic trailer unloading-loading equipment.

receiving via conveyor

3) Quality and quantity check methods
The next receiving activity is to check the vendor’s product quality and quantity based on the specified prepared documentation. This stage is to ensure the quantity and quality purchase tally with the specifications.

There are three basic method of quality and quantity product verification, with respect to the vendor’s past delivery performance and SKU characteristics: (1) 100 percent accept, random sample and 100 percent check.

4) Identify the product that does not meet standard
At this stage, after identify the product that does not meet the company’s specification or requirements, the product will be referred to purchasing department. Purchasing department will hold the goods temporary and return it to the vendor.

5) Inventory update
The next activity is updating the product on-hand inventory. There are two methods to update the inventory: delayed-entry method and on-line entry method.