Checking In Shelf-Ready Items

If your library sends enriched EDI orders using Polaris Acquisitions and receives shipments of shelf-ready barcoded materials, you can scan the items when they are received at the loading dock to check them in so they can be circulated, and update the linked purchase orders at the same time. Your library system may check in and receive new items by this method at a central location, or each branch may process its own new shelf-ready items.

To check in a shelf-ready item by this method, the matching on-order item record must have a barcode, and it must be linked to a purchase order line item segment. On-order items are created when the purchase order is released and are updated with embedded holdings data when full bibliographic records are imported using the Enriched EDI Orders import profile.