With Purchasing, you can:
Use routing controls at the organization, supplier, item, or order level to enforce material movement through receiving. For example, you can require inspection for some items and dock-to-stock receipt for others.
Define receiving tolerances at the organization, supplier, item, and order level, with the lowest level overriding previous levels. You can define tolerances for receipt quantity, on-time delivery, and receiving location. You can assign looser tolerances to low-value items. You can set enforcement options to ignore, warn the user, or reject transactions that violate the tolerances.
Use blind receiving to improve accuracy in the receiving process. With this option, the quantity due for each shipment does not show and quantity control tolerances are ignored.