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is there actually a way to Close an Inbound Shipment?
The field help claims that "Closed" is a status... but I can't find any way to close one.
I've found a number of posts/articles complaining about this. Can anyone confirm whether or not it's possible?

Figured it out-

You have to change the Qty Expected to match the Qty Received for each item. And save the Inbound Shipment. THEN You will get a "close" button that you can use to change the status to Closed

And if the actual numbers are different, you'll need to close with the same numbers the inbound has and then inventory adjust to the actual-received numbers.

Hmm, <@UBF08CVAN> -

If I have a PO with 100 widgets on it
And the vendor sends 99

I was just going to:
1. Adjust the Qty Expected on the inbound shipment to 99
2. Save the inbound shipment
3. Close the inbound shipment
4. Close the PO 
Are there more steps I'd need to do?

I think that would work too - our buyer is out right now, but I'll see if she or the warehouse manager can give me some guidance to share.

From our purchasing manager.
```Usually they receive 100 and then adjust inventory to 99.
The PO is always correct 
Major issue is when we receive total quantity of 100 pcs and part of it is bad.```
But she's working on something better because:
```Adjusting inventory is totally wrong
Any short payment to vendor needs to have traceability in the system```
And we have to hand walk that through everything.
Our warehouse manager conformed the receive all and then inventory adjust part.

So... yeah, that's what we do, but don't like it.

Thanks again for the follow up. I'll pass to my accounting team to see what they want to do