The customer relates the consumption activity to the supplier, which makes the consumed inventory available to be invoiced (step 6 in Consignment Inventory Business Flow).

Once the invoice is generated, standard invoice posting and printing are performed (step 7 in Consignment Inventory Business Flow). Either the invoice is sent to the customer or payments are received for consumed inventory using the optional self-billing functions.

Inventory records are automatically updated and can be used to verify transactions in a variety of ways to define inventory balances and locations.

See QAD Financials User Guide for details on self-billing.