{"id":1309,"date":"2012-07-04T15:08:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T15:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2025-01-28T05:38:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T05:38:24","slug":"negative-inventory-level-in-po-receipt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/2012\/07\/04\/negative-inventory-level-in-po-receipt\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative Inventory level in PO Receipt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a scenario we came across that was reported on the Sage Accpac forum. User is entering receipts on PO Receipt Entry screen, he enters a QTY for an Item and tries to save the line and an error message pop-ups &#8220;Negative Inventory levels are not allowed.&#8221;<br \/>\nSurprising right? Why would system check Inventory level while receiving the inventory? This is what I thought when I first saw it but then on further investigation found out what the possible reason would be, below are the details.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PO-Receipt-Error.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/PO-Receipt-Error.bmp\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis scenario can occur if at some point the system was configured to allow the negative inventory levels, so user were allowed to do over-shipments which might have taken the On-hand for few Items in Negative.<br \/>\nLater again the system was changed to NOT allow Negative Inventory, now though the feature is turned off; few Items still have their On-hand in negative.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Negative-Inventory.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Negative-Inventory.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNow considering above example if you try to receive quantity less than 12 which will keep the On-Hand in Negative you will get the error message as system finds Negative inventory even though the option is turned off.<br \/>\nHowever, if you try to receive more than 12 say 14 which will take the On-hand QTY to 2 (positive) you will not get this error.<br \/>\nNow if you came across this situation and would like to make the corrections you must set all the Items with Negative ON-Hand to Zero by passing an IC Adjustment Entry.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IC-Adjustment.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/IC-Adjustment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"477\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis shall solve the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a scenario we came across that was reported on the Sage Accpac forum. User is entering receipts on PO Receipt Entry screen, he enters a QTY for an Item and tries to save the line and an error message pop-ups &#8220;Negative Inventory levels are not allowed.&#8221; Surprising right? Why would system check Inventory level\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/2012\/07\/04\/negative-inventory-level-in-po-receipt\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1338,1467,1701],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sage-accpac","tag-inventory","tag-level","tag-negative"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Negative Inventory level in PO Receipt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.greytrix.com\/blogs\/sageaccpacerp\/2012\/07\/04\/negative-inventory-level-in-po-receipt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Negative Inventory level in PO Receipt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Here\u2019s a scenario we came across that was reported on the Sage Accpac forum. 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