Agree absolutely with Steve and Patricia. The physical date of inventory receipt should be used in both the GL and IC. The Vendor Invoice Date can be quite arbitrary, as this string's example and Steve's from September so aptly point out. Any auditor would confirm that the physical receipt date of inventory is the correct choice to pass to the GL and IC.
A related but separate impact of this flaw is reconciling of the GL's AP clearing account. One client uses delivery notes for Receipt, followed by Vendor Invoices passed to AP. The PO Outstanding Receipt Invoice List does not give the correct information at a period end cutoff. This report seems to take the 'Transaction Date' (as listed on the Data Flow tab of the Receipt) from the PO Invoice/Adj rather than the Vendor Document Date of that transaction to determine what to report. In the case of back-dated and/or future-dated vendor invoices, the resulting report is useless to tie to the GL value of the AP clearing account. This causes hours of manual reconciliation for this client. I would be happy to provide Softrak with more detail on this if it would assist in a resolution.
Revising the Help is not addressing the flaw; please Softrak - reprogram to use the actual receipt date of inventory rather than Vendor Invoice Date.
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