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Purchase Receipt Defaulting wrong warehouse location on detail lines

  • April 8, 2026
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Having a tough time getting the Purchase Receipts to default the Warehouse and Location.  It is defaulting the warehouse but the location just shows <Split> and won’t fill in the default from the Item Warehouse Record.

Here’s the scenarios:

When doing a Purchase Receipt you have multiple options to enter the Detail Lines on the Receipt.

  1. <Enter Receipt> from the PO Screen – this builds the Receipt entry from the PO and does all the settings.  Detail Lines to not have a Default Location.  They do have a Default Warehouse
     
  2. Manual Entry – this seems to work properly when you enter the Detail line with Inventory ID, the Warehouse and then the Location Defaults from the Item Warehouse default Receiving Location
     
  3. On a Manually Created PO Receipt – select the <Add PO> button which will show a list of POs from this Vendor which you can select and will fill the Detail Lines – no Default Location.  They do have a Default Warehouse
     
  4. On a Manually Created PO Receipt – select the <Add PO Line> button which will show a list of the open PO Detail Lines for this vendor

This seems to be a bug.  Why on #1, #3, #4 does it not pick up the Item Warehouse Default Location.  It just shows <Split>.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you

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  • Jr Varsity III
  • April 9, 2026

This behavior is expected and not necessarily a bug.

When Purchase Receipts are created from a PO (using Enter Receipt, Add PO, or Add PO Line), Acumatica treats the lines as PO-linked and applies allocation/splitting logic, which is why the Location displays as <Split> instead of defaulting from the Item Warehouse.

In contrast, during manual entry, the system applies the Item Warehouse default receiving location directly, since there is no PO linkage involved.

 

So effectively:

Manual entry → Location defaults from Item Warehouse

From PO → Uses allocation/splits → shows <Split>

If needed, the location can be assigned by expanding the split or through customization.


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  • Freshman II
  • April 9, 2026

@FarhanaM60 Thank you for the explanation.  

In our case, and I would imagine others, we don’t ever want to have our people doing receiving (or other types of entries) have to manually enter anything that should be defaulted.

We have a one to one to one relationship between Branch → Warehouse → Location

There should not be a need to constantly enter the Warehouse or Location since it’s the same value every time based on the branch.  

If we have a PO that is fully received there should really only be the need to give the generated Receipt or imported Detail Line(s) a once over and not have to add the Location to every line.

The application should be smart enough to know that if there’s a PO Split and there’s only one line, that the Location should be defaulted, especially if there’s ever only one value for the field.

I can’t believe that other companies with large amounts of product coming in every day have to manually set the Location on every PO Receipt line. 

If it works for Manual Entry, why doesn’t it work for generated entry where there’s only one split line?   And even if the lines were split, with a single location, there’s no reason to manually set it to the only value that could be entered.

I would ask that this concept be elevated to a product manager for review.


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  • Freshman II
  • April 9, 2026

@BobbySandhu