You can return material to Inventory from a maintenance work order. If excess or defective material is issued to a work order, it needs to be returned. Only material issued to work orders can be returned to Inventory. The quantity returned cannot exceed the quantity issued; it must be 1 if the material is serial controlled.

   To return material to Inventory:

1. Navigate to the Stores tab.

2. Select the Return Material To Inventory sub-tab.

3. Optionally select a work order to narrow your results to one work order.

4. Optionally select a Material value to narrow your results to all Work Orders containing it as a material requirement.

5. Optionally select a Lot Number to narrow your results to all work order containing the previous Material with the current Lot Number.

6. Optionally select a specific Operation contained in the previously selected work order.

7. Optionally select a Serial Number to narrow your selection criteria to only work orders containing it as part of their material requirements.

8. Click the Go button.

9. Enter the return Quantity for each work order.

10. Select the Subinventory to which to return the material.

11. If the previous Subinventory requires a Locator, select a Locator.

12. Optionally select a Date to return the material. The default value is the current system date and time.

13. Optionally select a Reason code to indicate the reason the material is not needed.

14. Optionally enter Reference information.

15. Enable the Select check box to include the work order rows from which material is being returned.

16. The Delete Allocation & Material Requirements check box for the material line of the work order indicates that you want to delete all the outstanding (unused) material allocation. The default for this check box is selected.

    This check box enables the following actions to occur when the return to inventory process is performed:

    • Deletes the open and unused material allocation of the work order.

    • Updates the material requirement quantity of the work order to reflect the net issued quantity (Qty Issued - Qty Returned).

    Optionally clear (unselect) this check box if you do not want to perform these functions.

17. Click the Return to Inventory button.