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title: "About Inventory Requests"
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# About Inventory Requests

An inventory request is created to address an inventory need for a specific location. The request may be fulfilled by a purchase order or by a transfer.

- A transfer may be used to fulfill an inventory request when a surplus of the required item (SKU) is available at another location.
- If no location has an available surplus, the item must be obtained from the applicable distributor through a purchase order.

Inventory requests must be approved by a designated initial approver as specified in the prevailing Inventory Approval Plan. Following this, the approver may select whether to fulfill the request by transfer or purchase order. Transfers and purchase orders may also require approval as specified in the inventory approval plan.

Regardless of fulfillment method, the requested items must be entered into inventory at the destination location via a receiving transaction.

Overview

For an overview see: [Inventory Request Work Flow](/v1/docs/inventory-request-work-flow)

How to Perform a Request

For details on performing a request see:

[Performing a Request Search](/v1/docs/performing-an-inventory-request-search)

**Pending Inventory Requests**

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[Creating a Request through the Inventory Dashboard](/v1/docs/creating-a-request-through-the-inventory-dashboard)

[Creating a Request through Inventory](/v1/docs/creating-a-request-through-inventory)

See also:

Inventory Approval Plan