The standard item receive process requires, that the warehouse worker knows the PO number/Load ID as the entry data, this is often not the case. So instead of forcing the worker to enter a purchase order/load id to initiate the item receive process, the user should be presented with a list of purchase orders (or loads) planned to be received for the day/dock (that hold order/load lines not yet fully received). The entry screen could be similar to worklists, that allows the user to define a number of fields from the data sources to create hyperlinks to activate and thereby initiate the needed data for beginning the receipt process (for purchase orders e.g. the vendor ID and name, Expected receipt date, reference number.