Receipt accuracy
Expected and received quantities drift
Paper notes and delayed entry make shortages, over-deliveries, and substitutions difficult to resolve against the original purchase order.
Goods in / Purchase-order receiving / Putaway
Warehouse receiving software that controls goods-in from the first scan.
A mobile goods-in workflow for purchase-order receiving, barcode checks, batch and expiry capture, discrepancies, labels, and putaway tasks.
Give warehouse staff a clear receiving process while keeping your ERP, inventory platform, WMS, or ecommerce system as the source of purchasing and stock data.
Connected goods-in workflowAPI connected
Operational corePO + receipt + putaway
CommerceOrders
InventoryStock truth
MobileWarehouse tasks
ShippingLabels + tracking
Purchase-order receiving
Barcode and quantity checks
Batch and expiry capture
Directed putaway tasks
Accurate stock starts at the door
Turn an expected purchase order into verified, traceable warehouse stock.
Warehouse receiving software should do more than mark a purchase order as delivered. The operator needs to identify the supplier and order, scan the product, record the quantity actually received, capture controlled-stock details, and make discrepancies visible before the stock moves further into the operation.
HOC Warehouse can load open purchase orders from the system of record and guide that physical process on mobile. Each completed receipt can create the right inventory update, product or pallet label, quarantine decision, and putaway task without asking the team to repeat the same entry across several systems.
The operational problem
Where manual goods-in creates unreliable inventory
Traceability
Batch data is captured too late
Batch, lot, serial, or expiry information is easily separated from the physical stock when it is entered away from the receiving point.
Putaway control
Stock waits without a destination
Completed receipts accumulate in staging when the next putaway location and owner are not created as part of the workflow.
Exceptions
Discrepancies disappear into messages
Damage, missing units, and unexpected products need a structured exception path rather than a note that managers may not see.
What can be delivered
A mobile receiving workflow from vehicle to storage location
Load expected receipts
Bring open purchase orders, suppliers, products, quantities, and relevant handling data into a prioritised goods-in queue.
- Purchase orders
Scan and verify stock
Confirm products and quantities at the receiving point, including over, short, damaged, or unexpected deliveries.
- Barcode checks
Capture traceability data
Record batch, lot, serial, expiry, condition, and other product-specific attributes while the goods are physically present.
- Batch and expiry
Create directed putaway
Generate the next movement to a pick face, reserve location, quarantine area, or other approved warehouse destination.
- Putaway tasks
01Load purchase order
02Scan delivery
03Record quantity & batch
04Resolve discrepancies
05Put away stock
Receive once, update once
Connect the physical receipt to the inventory transaction.
A controlled goods-in process gives the warehouse and the source system the same answer without relying on retrospective data entry.
Decision areaManual receivingConnected receiving workflow
Purchase order
Printed or checked in a back-office screen
Mobile queue with expected lines and quantities
Verification
Visual check and handwritten count
Barcode, quantity, and product-specific validation
Traceability
Batch or expiry entered later
Captured against the receipt at goods-in
Next movement
Stock left in staging
Putaway task created with a destination
Related warehouse expertise
Explore the rest of the connected warehouse system.
Common questions
Before the workflow is scoped.
01Can receiving start from purchase orders in our existing system?+
Yes. Where the system provides suitable API access, the app can load open purchase orders and the product, supplier, quantity, and status data needed for the agreed receiving workflow.
02Can it record shortages, damage, or unexpected stock?+
Yes. Discrepancy reasons, photos, notes, quarantine decisions, approval steps, and supplier follow-up data can be configured around the process your business needs.
03Does the system support batch and expiry capture at goods-in?+
Yes. Batch, lot, serial, expiry, and other traceability fields can be captured during receipt and carried into the location and movement history.
04Can a receipt automatically create putaway work?+
Yes. Accepted stock can create directed putaway tasks using product, location, capacity, condition, batch, expiry, or other warehouse rules agreed during discovery.
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