Blind Receiving
Blind receiving is when a warehouse receives a shipment of goods that arrives without any purchase order or invoice, meaning all the information relative to the receipt must be entered manually or via barcode scan.
What does Blind Receiving mean?
Blind receiving is when a warehouse receives a shipment of goods that arrives without any purchase order or invoice, meaning all the information relative to the receipt must be entered manually or via barcode scan.
Blind Receiving is a receiving process where no reference information such as advance ship notice or purchase order is used to process the receipt - which means blind receipt.
Blind receiving forces the receivers to manually validate the details through inspection of goods when no reference documents come with delivery.
Major challenges in Blind Receiving:
- Lack of complete inbound visibility
- Risk of errors due to manual entry of consignment data
- Risk of overstocking and reduced space availability
- Risk of process chokepoints in both inbound and outbound
- Increased Dock-to-Stock time due to a lack of preparedness