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# Inbound

Bring stock into the warehouse by receiving Purchase Orders, cross docking received stock, and processing client returns.

Stock you can't see on the system can't be sold. The **Inbound** menu in OrderEazi is where your warehouse team records everything that arrives: deliveries from suppliers, stock that goes straight out to a client, and stock clients send back.

### Before you start

You need one of **View Purchase Orders and GRVs**, **Receive against Purchase Orders (GRV)**, **View and Use as Manager**, or **View and Use as Administrator**, in the **Warehousing** permission group. Client Returns has its own permissions. See [Warehouse roles](/central/warehouse-management/warehouse-roles.md).

### What's in Inbound

* **Purchase Orders:** Find a Purchase Order that's due, move received stock to the shelves, and close one you no longer need. See [Purchase Orders](/central/warehouse-management/inbound/purchase-orders.md).
* **Receiving stock:** Record a supplier's delivery against its Purchase Order on a Goods Received Voucher (GRV), the record of one delivery received on a Purchase Order. See [Receiving stock (GRV)](/central/warehouse-management/inbound/receiving-stock-grv.md).
* **Cross Docking:** Send received stock straight out to the client, without putting it away (moving it from receiving onto a shelf). See [Cross Docking](/central/warehouse-management/inbound/cross-docking.md).
* **Client Returns:** Record stock a client sends back, and sort it into good, faulty, and damaged stock. See [Client Returns](/central/warehouse-management/inbound/client-returns.md).

### How supplier deliveries flow in

1. Your buyer raises a Purchase Order on the project, and the supplier delivers.
2. The warehouse receives the delivery on a GRV. Good stock goes into **PO-Good-Bin** and damaged stock into **PO-Damaged-Bin**, under the **Receiving** area.
3. Stock in the receiving bins can't be picked yet. Either create a movement request (a task to move stock between locations) to put it away on the shelves, or cross dock it straight out.

### Related pages

* [Warehouse settings](/central/warehouse-management/warehouse-settings.md): the **Receiving Settings** that change how receiving works
* [Locations](/central/warehouse-management/management/locations.md): the receiving and return bins