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alias: user-guide-return-material
description: "Initiate a material return process, verifying preconditions and completing the transaction steps"
---

# Return Material

:lock: Material Transfer.**RequestForMaterialReturn**

## Overview

This operation is used to return a **Material** from its current location to a warehouse.

## Setup

No special setup is required other than to meet the preconditions of the transaction.

## Preconditions

* Both the *SourceFacility* and *TargetFacility* must exist and be *Active* and *SourceFacility* must be different from *TargetFacility*.
* The **Product** referenced in the **Material Transfer** must be *Active* and the *MaterialTransferMode* must be equal to *TransferMaterial*.
* The *RequestedQuantity* can only be decimal if the Product Material's *TransferDecimalQuantityAllowed* property is true.
* The *ToFacility* must be defined and it must not be a *Remote Facility*.
* The *FromStep* must have the *IsMaterial TransferStep* set to true.
* The same **Material** must not be referenced in any other active **Material Transfer**operation either as *ReturnMaterial* or *ForMaterial*.
* The **Material** must be *TopMost*, must not be *On Hold* and must be either *Queued* or *InProcess*.  

## Sequence of Steps

### Step 1: Details

1. Select a **Material** and then select the **Return Material** button to initialize the wizard.
2. Select a *To Facility*, and optionally select a *To Area*.
3. Select the *Urgency* (values are taken from the generic table *MaterialTransferUrgency*). When the *Urgency* is selected, the request's delivery date is automatically set, based on the current date, in addition to the predefined *DefaultDeliveryTime* for that *Urgency* (in minutes).
4. Optionally, modify the *Request delivery date*.
5. Select a return *Reason* (defined in the lookup table *MaterialTransferReturnReason*).
6. Optionally, enter a comment.
7. Click **Return** to complete the transaction.

![return_material][return_material]

!!! info
	It is possible to define a default value for the *ToFacility* by adding the entry *Context=MaterialTransfer.ForMaterialReturn*, *Element=DefaultFacility* in the Generic Table *GUIElementDefaultValue*.

[return_material]: images/return_material.png