You post a goods receipt PO (GRPO). There is NO purchase order to reference. How will the GRPO affect inventory levels? Note: There are 2 correct answers to this question.

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Options

• AIncreases the committed quantity
• BIncreases the in-stock quantity
• CDecreases the ordered quantity
• DIncreases the quantity available to promise

• A
  5% (1)
• B
  81% (17)
• C
  14% (3)

Explanation

Posting a GRPO without a PO reference is a standalone inventory receipt - goods physically arrive and are added to the warehouse, so in-stock quantity rises (B). Because available-to-promise is calculated as in-stock + ordered − committed, and in-stock just went up with nothing else changing, available-to-promise also rises (D).

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A (committed quantity) increases when a Sales Order is created, reserving stock for a customer - a GRPO has nothing to do with sales commitments.
• C (ordered quantity) would decrease if the GRPO referenced a Purchase Order, because receiving against a PO fulfills that open order. Since there is no PO here, there is no ordered quantity to reduce.

Memory tip: Think of a no-PO GRPO as a "surprise delivery" - goods just show up and go on the shelf. Only what you have (in-stock) and what you can promise (available) change. Committed belongs to the sales side; ordered belongs to the purchasing side - and a standalone GRPO touches neither.

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