Purchase Returns
Return defective stock to vendors with auto-generated debit notes.
Return defective or excess material to vendors with full documentation. Debit notes are generated automatically and stock is adjusted on return approval.
How Purchase Returns actually works.
When a vendor sends bad material, you do not eat the loss, you return it. Pipetal handles the purchase return as a structured document with a clear GL impact and an audit trail.
Every return ties back to the original GRN, so the vendor cannot claim “we never sent that” and the audit team can trace the full chain.
Inside Purchase Returns.
Linked to GRN
Pick the source GRN, items and rates pre-fill. You only enter return quantity and reason.
Reason masters
Sub-spec, damaged, excess receipt, expired, configurable reasons drive analytics.
Stock reversal
On approval, on-hand stock drops at the source warehouse the same minute.
Auto debit note
A debit note posts to the vendor ledger automatically. The vendor’s payable balance drops.
Approval workflow
Returns above thresholds need finance and owner sign-off, no informal vendor adjustments.
Vendor quality scorecard
Per-vendor return rate by reason. Spot patterns and renegotiate or replace bad vendors.
Where Purchase Returns sits in the payable flow.
A mill tracks a vendor’s 4% reject rate and renegotiates their contract.
Pipetal’s vendor scorecard shows that one steel-melting vendor consistently has a 4% sub-spec rate vs the industry standard of under 1%. The owner uses the data in the next contract negotiation, and the vendor either matches industry quality or loses 30 lac of monthly business.
What buyers usually ask.
Yes, “excess receipt” is a return reason, applied when the GRN itself accepted more than the PO.
The return posts immediately on internal approval; vendor coordination happens outside the system, but the debit note is enforceable.
You reverse the return with a sale order back to vendor, the system handles the round-trip.
Related sub-modules
See Purchase Returns live, on your factory data.
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