Purchase Order Return - Early Delivery

Morning all,

We have an issue where we have certain suppliers who “chance it” and send us material that they have finished early (sometimes months early). Obviously we don’t want to be taking on this stock until we actually need it however as some of it is sent by courier i.e. FEDEX, UPS etc we get the courier dropping the item off, takes a quick signature and then they are on their way. It is only after manual inspection of the delivery later that we realise that we have something we didn’t yet need.

I know what you are all thinking. just tell the supplier to stop doing it! (apparently they don’t listen)

For audit obviously we have to register the purchase order arrival but after this we have 3 options. 

1. Leave the stock as registered and keep stored in a goods-in location
2. Return for Credit
3. Return for Rework

The only one that works in the way they want is Return for Rework in so far as it halts the payment, creates a return note and upon it coming back we can just re-register the arrival.

This is all fine but obviously not a perfect match and also means that when reporting against rework I (or any other report writers) will have to remember to omit a return code of “Early Delivery” otherwise we would be mis-reporting our rework figures.
 

Does anyone know of a more logical way of returning stock to a supplier that isn’t scrap or to be re-worked?

Regards

Nathan