A recent shipment of item A was routed to the inspection department according to standard practice, but no receipt for item A is available in the system for inspection. What might have happened?

In Oracle Purchasing, receipt routing determines the steps required to process incoming shipments: Direct Delivery, Standard Receipt, or Inspection Required. If standard practice or the purchase order default requires inspection, the physical shipment is routed to the inspection area. However, if the receiving clerk manually overrides the receipt routing to "Standard Receipt" during the receiving transaction in the Receiving window, the inspection step is bypassed entirely. As a result, the receipt transaction completes directly into destination/dock stock without generating an inspection requirement, leaving no receipt record available in the Inspection window.

A. Requisition receipt routing settings serve only as defaults and do not prevent a receipt from generating if physically routed and received under standard procedures.
B. Express receipts use the predefined default receipt routing for the purchase order line; they do not automatically bypass inspection unless the PO line routing specifies it.
C. Changing receipt routing to Standard Receipt on the PO line would prevent inspection entirely, but receiving clerks can also override routing at receiving time.
D. Supplier site level routing defaults to the PO line; altering it after PO creation does not retroactively change existing PO routing or active receipts.

1. Oracle Purchasing User's Guide, Release 12.2, Part No. E48835-11, Chapter 7 "Receiving - Receipt Routing".

2. Oracle E-Business Suite Supply Chain Management Implementation Guide, Release 12.2, Section "Setting Up Receiving Controls".