Record any exceptions on the carrier delivery receipt. Photograph any damages to freight as a method of documentation to substantiate any freight claims. Perform quality checks on incoming goods. Assign incoming goods to a warehouse location. Put-away incoming goods into their designated warehouse location.
Shipping is largely the opposite of receiving.
Shipping personnel may have the responsibility pulling the correct merchandise from their respective inventory location, preparing shipping documents, contacting the carrier for pick-up of the outgoing goods, loading the freight on the truck, verifying the shipping count, etc. The most common types of Auto ID that are currently in use are bar coding, radio frequency ID, radio frequency data communication and voice data collection. For the purpose of this report, we are mainly concerned with bar coding and radio frequency technologies. I will spare you the gory technological details and try to concentrate on how this technology is a benefit to a typical warehouse operation. A common management concern is what the payback will be on technology such as this because it certainly will involve a sizable capital outlay.